I'm not quite all the way to 40, but I do remember a time before anyone in my family owned a computer. And when asking a child in school "Have you ever used the internet?" had two correct answers: "Yes." and "No.", whereas today there is only one correct answer, which is a very concerned sounding "Are you OK? Do you need me to call someone?". I dropped my first cell phone - which I got when I turned 14 - from a third floor window unto pavement. It was fine. Or, well, it couldn't save any text messages since I already had like 60 of them that I hadn't manually deleted, so the hard drive was full, but actually damaging it physically would have required a commitment to total war by a major industrial state.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Bro, you know I'm in. 
I'll join but then I plan to start a splinter group. 
hell yeah i'm old hell yeah i post deal with it
I hated the long exhausting era of "present LGBTQIA+ person or concept, laughtrack" in entertainment. 
Disabling call waiting so you can use dial-up. 5 1/4" floppy disks with Number Munchers and other Apple iie games in a lovely shades of green. All metal playgrounds. Rotary phones. TVs with knobs instead of buttons. Yep, I'm old enough for the club 🧓
I'll be 40 in a few months. Will I be ok?