Are you feeling old?  If not, consider this:

 - The people who are starting college this fall across the
   nation were born in 1980.

 - The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were
   conceived.

 - They have no memory of a time before M-TV.

 - "New Wave" is their PARENTS' musical generation; the Beatles 
   are their GRANDPARENTS'.

 - Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex
   Pistols are all old musicians they _may_ have heard of.

 - They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.

 - They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.

 - Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great
   Depression.

 - Their world has always included AIDS.

 - Having not endured the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the
   1970s.

 - They see "Family Ties" as something middle aged ladies watch.

 - They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids -- on
   video.

 - Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes;
   they may have heard of an 8-track, but probably never actually
   seen (or heard) one.

 - From their earliest years, a camera was something you used
   once and threw away.

 - As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.

 - The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing
   -- and why anyone WOULDN'T buy a Suburban is beyond them.

 - Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if
   they went to Catholic schools.

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