Just in case you didn't already feel old ...

I found this online and I thought I'd share the misery...

The following have always been true for kids starting college this year:

Excerpts from the Beloit College "Mindset List" for the Class of 2007, most of whom were born in 1985.
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• Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead.

• They don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors.

• Heart-lung transplants have always been possible.

• Wayne Gretzky never played for Edmonton.

•
Iran and
Iraq have never been at war with each other.

• They're more familiar with Greg Gumbel than with Bryant Gumbel.

• Voice mail has always been available.

• "Whatever" is not part of a question

• They have always had the right to burn the flag.

•
Bill Gates has always been worth at least a billion dollars.

• The Starship Enterprise has always looked dated.

• American Motors never existed.

• Les Miserables has always been on stage.

• Halogen lights have always been available at home.

• Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime.

• They do not remember "a kinder and gentler nation."

• They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly.

• Airports have always had upscale shops and restaurants.

• Black Americans have always been known as African-Americans.

• Tom Landry never coached the Cowboys.

• The Field of Dreams has always been drawing people to Iowa.

• They never saw a Howard Johnson's with 28 ice cream flavors.

• Lyme disease has always been a concern in the woods.

• They have always been challenged to distinguish between news and entertainment on cable TV.

[migirl]

I saw them do this bit on the evening news last night, and boy did it make me feel old!! They asked one girl (an incoming member of the Class of 2007) if she'd ever heard of Phil Donahue and she said "no," she thought Liberace was a "sad clown from an opera," and that Jackie Gleason was a musician. I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

[DCJenn]

I graduated from high school in 1984. Wow.

Jenn

[Sheherezade]

Class of 1985, here. Yikes. I guess my 20 year reunion notices should have tipped me off to the whole "You're old" thing.

[Amiens]

They also had one on there- Starbucks has always been on every corner.

It made me feel old, and I didn't graduate in 1984/1985, but let's just say I was at the end of my first decade--- true kid of the 80s.

I won't start a list of what I remember growing up, because I don't want to add to "feeling old" in this post.

Crystal

[Meenah]

I am so staying out of this one!!!!!!
Luanne