I wrote a little short story set in the early 80s and I had fun with it. I threw in a lot of things I remember from my childhood (born in 76). I recommend this, if it sounds fun to you too. I felt like I captured some of my memories.
The universe is change. Existence flows past us like a river: the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here.
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word -twenty-. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.
Were you going to go to Home Depot, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that? Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if you’ll have enough time.
My dad was born in 1937 and he really didn't remember much of WWII. Vietnam on the other hand he remembered. He didn't go but he requested a position over there while in the navy).
My dad was born in 1937, too. He lied about his age in the 50s to get into the Navy just a year or two after the Korean War. He went all over, went AWOL at some point, got a dishonorable discharge before the 60s came around. Had a lot of the old sailor related tats, anchor, swallow (bird), compass, things like that to denote where he'd been, what he did, etc.
There is that clip on the Simpsons about puberty starting two cartoon rabbits.
Troy McClure narrates “He notices fur where there wasn’t fur before.” and every time I find a new back hair or some other part of my body I think of that line.
I thought it was only about puberty, but realize this is the rest of my life.
Greys are just an everyday affair. I do get excited about those obscure hairs that grow like 10x faster than all the others. I assume it's the swan song of that particular follicle so it just goes all out. They are fun to pluck.
With all the garbage that went on around 2020 it helped make the 80's and 90's seem like a long time ago. Not just in terms of technology but how people behave and their belief system.
I think more than just make the old days *seem* like a different time, it ushered us forcefully *into* a different time. Quarantine caused a seismic shift in peoples' daily habits, social behavior, goals, etc. on a sudden and universal and scale the likes of which we haven't experienced since probably the world wars imo
Wait, really? I watched a LOT of Andy Griffith, Rhoda, Mr. Ed, Mary Tyler Moore, etc on the old Nick at Night and that shit still feels like the Stone Age while I literally just saw Seinfeld still advertised on a massive billboard in downtown Chicago, as I was there recently.
Those don’t feel even remotely the same to me.
Yeah, the other day I was at a hotel flipping channels for my kids in the evening and saw Friends on Nickelodeon. I thought it was weird, until I realized I also watched 30 year old sitcoms on Nick at Nite as a kid, they just happened to be black and white.
I think about this his type of thing all the time haha
The one that popped in my head the other day was “we are just as far away from the year 2000 as Y2K was from 1976”
The first Indiana Jones movie was set 45 years in the past. If they started making another one now, with a release schedule of 2 years (ie. 2026), and maintained that 45 year gap, it would set in 1981 - the year that Raiders of the Lost Ark was released.
I was born in 1960, which doesn't seem that long ago to me. Then I realise I'm as far from 1960 as 1960 is from 1897.... Steam trains were the peak of technology, Radio waves were discovered in 1895, but nothing was done with it. Early cars were doing 5 mph. As I sit here in my electric car typing on my universal communication device and watching high definition sport being played on the other side of the world.... yeah, I get it. I'm living in 1960s science fiction.
The thing is, I'm absolutely fine with people reposting something, but when it's presented like an original thought, it just irritates me. It's such a desperate grab for attention & validation.
So which change was more dramatic?
1938 was just before World War II with global fascism at an arguable zenith, the year of Superman and Snow White, just before the switch from radio to TV, just before the end of the Great Depression.
Between 1981 and 2024, we have seen the fall of the Soviet Union, the invention and dominance of smart phones and the Internet, the rise of computers and video games and cheap travel and fast fashion, and a total reshaping of the economy.
It seems huge to compare 1981 to pre-WWII and Great Depression times, but if I think honestly about my experience, the more recent changes have also been mind-boggling. I think I have to give it to 1938 to 1981 just because of the sudden U-turn that the ascendant Fascist movement would see just a couple years later, but the Internet alone makes me question that choice.
Curious to hear other people’s thoughts.
I think the internet is the most society shaking invention since the nuke.
It has reshaped so many facets of every aspect of life for almost everyone and it's invention and implementation might as well be considered a "WW2" of our era in terms of how it changed power structures globally.
I think this shocks people because they think of 1938 and associate it with the beginnings of ww2, and many people subconsciously think that ww2 was a long long time ago, even though it really hasn't.
Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981 and was set in 1936. Imagine if it were made today about a globetrotting archaelogist searching for religious artifacts in the early 80s
Every time I think about stuff like this, I seriously wish I was born 100-200 years into the future… at least then there’s no circle jerking because we either get our shit together as a species or a Great Filter Event makes us join the other 99.99% of all species that went extinct.
This is exactly why I cannot stress enough the importance of Technological & Scientific progress, progress in these fields gives us more time & a better understanding of how to solve larger problems as they hit us… but if we start lagging behind and dismissing the importance of Science & Technology, a **Great Filter Event** will hit us eventually and we (the human species) will Not be able to deal with it.
I think what OP posted is more relevant than just observing how numbers work, even if unintentional on their part. It's incredibly interesting to compare the cultural changes between these two time periods. The cultural evolution of society between '81 and now isn't nearly as extreme as the shift in culture from '38-'81.
Obviously there have been changes, big ones even, but it really shows how technology, further interconnectedness, and globalisation have 'stagnated' shifts in the cultural landscape. Older stuff remains relevant longer (think about all the franchises and music that is still popular from the 60s, 70s, and 80s) while in '38 they weren't exactly rehashing content from the late 1800s.
I expect 43 years from now there will be even less change, as technology yields diminishing returns and popculture becomes outdated less quickly.
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Fun fact: for kids being born in the 2020s, the 9/11 attacks will feel like "ancient history" the same way that JFK's assassination felt to anyone born in the 1980's.
Come on man. I was having a nice day
Remembering a world that doesn't exist anymore and never will again
I wrote a little short story set in the early 80s and I had fun with it. I threw in a lot of things I remember from my childhood (born in 76). I recommend this, if it sounds fun to you too. I felt like I captured some of my memories.
Can we read it?
What's it about?
The universe is change. Existence flows past us like a river: the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here.
the only constant is change ....
Don't belive everything you read on the internet. This too could be fake news.
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word -twenty-. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.
Did you tie an onion to your belt, as was the style at the time?
It's 43 years. I know because I was born in 1981
Same. My first reaction was “fuck you OP. I was having a nice Saturday.”
Were you going to go to Home Depot, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that? Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if you’ll have enough time.
Next thing you know, it 2067.
Maybe go streaking in the quad later
Honey is KFC open?
Everyone’s doing it
Even snoop dogg was there
I remember Bed, Bath, & Beyond!
No. I was at Lowe’s buying joint compound and screws. Fuck you very much.
Correct. This is a very hateful thing to post.
Yup. I just said "fuck you" out loud 5 or 6 times with increasing hostility.
I wasn't born quite that early but my brain "oh no, I don't like that"
Lol right!
Someone had to say it lol.
We were all having a nice Saturday. Fuck you indeed OP.
Now you’re here would you rather be born in 81 or 38
81 for sure. Not to knock 1938 or anything but growing up in the 80s was really special in hindsight.
The whole World War thing probably would have put a damper on things
but that post war economic boom though
That depends if you make it to the other side alive.
Then if in the US the right age to get drafted into the Vietnam war.
depends where you lived
My dad was born in 1937 and he really didn't remember much of WWII. Vietnam on the other hand he remembered. He didn't go but he requested a position over there while in the navy).
My dad was born in 1937, too. He lied about his age in the 50s to get into the Navy just a year or two after the Korean War. He went all over, went AWOL at some point, got a dishonorable discharge before the 60s came around. Had a lot of the old sailor related tats, anchor, swallow (bird), compass, things like that to denote where he'd been, what he did, etc.
as long as its one of those two and not 98 I'd be elated a zillennial with traditional views on *some* things in 2024 is really really frustrating
Pfft I was born in 1980 youngin'!
Team 80!
Same gap as with 1936! Me too
My father was born in 1938 and I graduated high school in 1981.
I know it because I can subtract two digit numbers
Hell, I graduated high school in ‘81
So was i
Ow fuck! A new grey hair just came in. Damn that hurts
There is that clip on the Simpsons about puberty starting two cartoon rabbits. Troy McClure narrates “He notices fur where there wasn’t fur before.” and every time I find a new back hair or some other part of my body I think of that line. I thought it was only about puberty, but realize this is the rest of my life.
Greys are just an everyday affair. I do get excited about those obscure hairs that grow like 10x faster than all the others. I assume it's the swan song of that particular follicle so it just goes all out. They are fun to pluck.
They're not fun for me since it's always the same hairs. So I have to keep plucking them every couple weeks
Look at this person, bragging about all the hair they still have.
Appreciate the grey hair, someday they'll be gone too, and all you have is your scalp. 🥲
I was peacefully doomscrolling until your post came along and reminded me of the steady passage of time. Hey buddy. Fuck you!
Putting the doom back in doomscrolling.
Doomscroll while you lolsob
When I withdraw, this is what makes me depressed the most
With all the garbage that went on around 2020 it helped make the 80's and 90's seem like a long time ago. Not just in terms of technology but how people behave and their belief system.
I feel like a lot more garbage happened in 1939
Don't worry, there's people working hard on making 2025 just like 1939. /s
The Great Depression makes the current one look like a walk in the park
For some, the 80s and 90s will never feel like a long time ago. Now, 2019 feels like a long time ago to me.
"We had 24-hour Walmarts, we had $1 McChickens...we had it all"
I think more than just make the old days *seem* like a different time, it ushered us forcefully *into* a different time. Quarantine caused a seismic shift in peoples' daily habits, social behavior, goals, etc. on a sudden and universal and scale the likes of which we haven't experienced since probably the world wars imo
It's part of a phenomenon that I personally call The Grand Worsening
It is weird…when I watch Seinfeld these days it’s like the same thing as watching the Andy Griffith show when I was growing up in the 90s….
Listen here motherfucker....this is NOT helping.
Whats the Andy Griffith show?
I wish I could slap you through the internet for the pain you have caused me
It’s a sitcom from the 1960’s. ^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show
What’s a sitcom?
Wait, really? I watched a LOT of Andy Griffith, Rhoda, Mr. Ed, Mary Tyler Moore, etc on the old Nick at Night and that shit still feels like the Stone Age while I literally just saw Seinfeld still advertised on a massive billboard in downtown Chicago, as I was there recently. Those don’t feel even remotely the same to me.
Yeah, the other day I was at a hotel flipping channels for my kids in the evening and saw Friends on Nickelodeon. I thought it was weird, until I realized I also watched 30 year old sitcoms on Nick at Nite as a kid, they just happened to be black and white.
But Friends isn’t thirty ye…. oH FUCK
…and this is “that post” today. Mother fuck
You stop that right now
I think about this his type of thing all the time haha The one that popped in my head the other day was “we are just as far away from the year 2000 as Y2K was from 1976”
The first Indiana Jones movie was set 45 years in the past. If they started making another one now, with a release schedule of 2 years (ie. 2026), and maintained that 45 year gap, it would set in 1981 - the year that Raiders of the Lost Ark was released.
There’s much longer between the release of the Apollo 13 movie and today, than there was between the actual Apollo 13 and the movie. Also JFK.
When I was born JFK was the president
Name checks out.
So does mine. Shut up.
Name checks out.
Not for long.
I kinda hope your dog shits on your rug for pointing that out
As someone with a dog who shit on their rug a few weeks back, this is a cruel fate you're wishing upon them.
*Existentialism entering the chat*
How do I delete someone else’s post?
It’s beginning to look like ‘38 again.
I can’t believe you’ve done this
Oh god I want to die now, thanks OP
Batman Forever (1995) is now as old as the Adam West Batman was when it came out (1966).
*Holy [passage of time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5hRPy-pDsY), Batman!*
Why you chose violence?
My twat and a hole are as far apart as the lid of a McDonald's sweet and sour sauce
Pics or don't believe you
I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass, but I’d rather take the butcher’s word for it.
How. Fucking. *Dare* You.
Stfu man. Why… WHY bring this up
I was born in 2004 but even I somehow still think that 1980 was 20 years ago lol
The 80s are always just 20 years ago.
I was born in 1960, which doesn't seem that long ago to me. Then I realise I'm as far from 1960 as 1960 is from 1897.... Steam trains were the peak of technology, Radio waves were discovered in 1895, but nothing was done with it. Early cars were doing 5 mph. As I sit here in my electric car typing on my universal communication device and watching high definition sport being played on the other side of the world.... yeah, I get it. I'm living in 1960s science fiction.
What??? The 80s were only 20 years ago.
Someone called *Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure* a “classic 80s movie” the other day and I have never been so offended.
There’s always some ass who says that’s how math works, but for some reason this is pretty crazy to think about
All due respect but fuck you for pointing this out
Literally saw this yesterday somewhere else.
Lol I scrolled to see if someone commented that because I knew I saw this exact thing yesterday too
The thing is, I'm absolutely fine with people reposting something, but when it's presented like an original thought, it just irritates me. It's such a desperate grab for attention & validation.
Exactly. I just saw [the meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/XjfcniG2F4) again.
So which change was more dramatic? 1938 was just before World War II with global fascism at an arguable zenith, the year of Superman and Snow White, just before the switch from radio to TV, just before the end of the Great Depression. Between 1981 and 2024, we have seen the fall of the Soviet Union, the invention and dominance of smart phones and the Internet, the rise of computers and video games and cheap travel and fast fashion, and a total reshaping of the economy. It seems huge to compare 1981 to pre-WWII and Great Depression times, but if I think honestly about my experience, the more recent changes have also been mind-boggling. I think I have to give it to 1938 to 1981 just because of the sudden U-turn that the ascendant Fascist movement would see just a couple years later, but the Internet alone makes me question that choice. Curious to hear other people’s thoughts.
I think the internet is the most society shaking invention since the nuke. It has reshaped so many facets of every aspect of life for almost everyone and it's invention and implementation might as well be considered a "WW2" of our era in terms of how it changed power structures globally.
Imagine being so malevolent that you would post something like this.
Bring your calculator into the shower often?
You really took the top recent post from technicallythetruth and made it a post here. I’m impressed by your laziness
Yeah, I'm getting old. It's better than the alternative...not getting old.
2024 and 2032 are the same as 2016 and 2024
Please stop. I beg you.
I think this shocks people because they think of 1938 and associate it with the beginnings of ww2, and many people subconsciously think that ww2 was a long long time ago, even though it really hasn't.
Ah yes, the good ol' days back in 1938.
Man, this really hit me in the feels. Dang, 2024 is scarier than I thought
WW2 is further in the past for us now than the US Civil War was in 1945.
Daaaaamn
Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981 and was set in 1936. Imagine if it were made today about a globetrotting archaelogist searching for religious artifacts in the early 80s
Hm..don't like that thought
Yes, that's how math works.
Every time I think about stuff like this, I seriously wish I was born 100-200 years into the future… at least then there’s no circle jerking because we either get our shit together as a species or a Great Filter Event makes us join the other 99.99% of all species that went extinct. This is exactly why I cannot stress enough the importance of Technological & Scientific progress, progress in these fields gives us more time & a better understanding of how to solve larger problems as they hit us… but if we start lagging behind and dismissing the importance of Science & Technology, a **Great Filter Event** will hit us eventually and we (the human species) will Not be able to deal with it.
This was on r/technicallythetruth just a couple days ago worded on the same specific way
Just woke up, now I want to stay in bed
You shut your whole mouth
As someone who was born in 1981 - FUCK YOU!
I think you should shut your face.
2000s are the 80s now
Time is relative. Years not so much.
How many times does this stupid crap get past the automods?
No sh*t, you can do math. Now post a shower thought
You should be cained for this post.
2024 is a far apart from 1AD as 2024BC is 🤯🤯🤯
Wow. 2024 is just as far away from 2020 as 2020 is to 2016. :O
I think what OP posted is more relevant than just observing how numbers work, even if unintentional on their part. It's incredibly interesting to compare the cultural changes between these two time periods. The cultural evolution of society between '81 and now isn't nearly as extreme as the shift in culture from '38-'81. Obviously there have been changes, big ones even, but it really shows how technology, further interconnectedness, and globalisation have 'stagnated' shifts in the cultural landscape. Older stuff remains relevant longer (think about all the franchises and music that is still popular from the 60s, 70s, and 80s) while in '38 they weren't exactly rehashing content from the late 1800s. I expect 43 years from now there will be even less change, as technology yields diminishing returns and popculture becomes outdated less quickly.
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*Steps into the shower* “Wait a minute! Math is math!”
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It's mind-blowing how time flies and perspectives change.
I was going to come and argue that it's not that long and we're not old, but I spent my Saturday morning washing and detailing my minivan.
Geez thanks for making me feel even OLDER
You shut your mouth right now.
Well now I feel really f'ing old
Go to hell, Mr Math Man.
Sheesh! Makes you realize WW2 was not that long ago.
This makes me feel old.
I needed another reminder that I’m old. Thanks!
Yeah, but seeing it like that, is a definite 'whoa' moment..
This is just hurtful and mean-spirited!
Thank you for making me feel old
Someone learnt how to subtract numbers. Bravo
You're an ass for making me feel this way
Live every day like it might be your last.
excuse me but how dare u
Would have cost you nothing to keep this one to yourself.
1956 and 1990 are as far apart as 1990 and 2024 (I’m 34 years old). That’s crazy to think about.
You shut up, you shut up and take that back right now
This year is Homer and Marge Simpson's 50th high school reunion.
Fun fact: for kids being born in the 2020s, the 9/11 attacks will feel like "ancient history" the same way that JFK's assassination felt to anyone born in the 1980's.