Great, Now I Feel REALLY Old

Inside Higher Ed pointed to a list the other day detailing 75 things this year’s college freshmen class hasn’t ever encountered, including:

• The concept of two Germanys
• Smoking on airplanes
• The Soviet Union
• Being forced to distinguish between the baseball and football St. Louis Cardinals

The list of what they don’t know/haven’t encountered goes on, but to it I might add:

• A TV dial without CNN
• Actual TV dials
• “3,2,1, Contact!” on PBS
• The Red Army being both a military force and a vaunted force in hockey
• “TGIF” on ABC
• Saturday morning cartoons forming the anchorpoint for a generation of consumers
• 9600 baud modems
• The term “baud”

…And, I’m sure, many more. Jeez, could I feel any older and more decrepit right now?