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45 Things That Will Make Every Millennial And Old Gen Z'er Feel Like They're 99 Years Old

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1.First and foremost, the fact that 20 years ago was not the '80s or even '90s, but 2002 ??.

2.This year, teens who start high school in the fall will have been born in the year 2008. YUP, 2008!!!

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3.Which means "Umbrella" by Rihanna...

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4....and "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado are songs that were popular before they were even born.

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5.The iPod was already old technology. Heck, even the iPod Touch had already been released.

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6.And to them, an iPod might as well be a boomer gadget.

7.Which also means they don't know about making mix CDs ??.

8. Or that money once looked like this:

9. And things like the 2000 US presidential election are ancient history.

10.It also means that since birth, they've lived in a world where Hannah Montana...

Miley as Hannah in high heels and jeans
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11....American Idol...

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12....and Twitter have always existed.

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13.They've also never had to wait for a DVD to be mailed to them.

14.Disney has never released a movie on VHS during their lifetime.

VHS Disney movies, like Pocahontas, The Lion King, and Bambi

Bambi II, released in 2006, was the last Disney animated movie released on VHS.

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15.Destiny's Child has never released new music in their lifetime. To them, Beyoncé has always been a solo act.

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16.And they have no idea who the Spice Girls are.

17.Or who NSYNC is.

18.In fact, to kids today, the Killers are considered "classic rock."

19.But I guess they aren't wrong, since they're played on classic rock stations.

20.Speaking of things that would probably be considered "classic rock": Both Radio Head's OK Computer and Green Day's Nimrod are turning 25 this year!

Which would make them as old today as David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. were in 1997.

Which would make them as old today as David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. were in 1997.

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21.If someone were to write a song like the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" and set it back the same number of years, it would be called "2005."

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When the Smashing Pumpkins released "1979" in 1996, they were 17 years removed from it — 2005 was 17 years ago for us currently.

22.And if someone were to write a song today like Bowling for Soup's cover of SR-71's "1985" and set it back the same number of years, it would be called "2003."

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When the song was released in 2004, it was 19 years removed from 1985. And an updated version of the song would probably mention Britney Spears, Outkast, and Lindsay Lohan movies.

23.If Back to the Future were created today and set the same number of years back, it would take place in 1992. 1992!!!

Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox in Back to the Future

The movie, which was released in 1985, was set 30 years earlier, in 1955.

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24.Also, Marty would be traveling to the year when Aladdin was a hit movie!

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Yup, Aladdin is a 30-year-old movie!!! And if you want to think about it this way, it is now as old a movie today as The Godfather was in 1992.

25.While, if Now and Then came out today, it would take place in 1997.

Four little girls standing on a house patio and looking down

The movie, which was released in 1995, had its flashback scenes set 25 years earlier, in 1970.

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26.And if Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery came out today, he would have been full of early-'90s references, as he would have been frozen in 1992.

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The first Austin Powers movie was released in 1997, and in it he had been placed in cryostasis 30 years earlier, in 1967.

27.Britney Spears' music now gets played on the oldies station. ON THE OLDIES STATION.

28.And so does Avril Lavigne's.

29.Avril is also now considered "dad rock," along with Sum 41 and Blink-182 ??.

30.But I guess it really isn't too far off for Blink-182, 'cause the band officially turns 30 this year.

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31.Brad Pitt is 58 years old today, which is the exact age Morgan Freeman was when their movie Seven premiered.

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32.Lindsay Lohan is older today than Tina Fey was when Mean Girls premiered.

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Tina Fey was just shy of 34 years old when Mean Girls premiered in 2004, while Lindsay Lohan just turned 36.

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33.Liam Neeson is older today than Alec Guinness was when he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars — while Ewan McGregor is older today than Liam was when he played Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace.

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Liam Neeson is 70 years old, while back in 1977, Alec was 63 when A New Hope premiered. And back when Phantom Menace premiered in 1999, Liam was almost 47, while Ewan is 51 today.

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34.Also, we are further removed today from the release of The Phantom Menace than The Phantom Menace was from the release of Stars Wars: A New Hope.

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The Phantom Menace was released 23 years ago, while Star Wars: A New Hope had been released 22 years earlier (in 1977) when The Phantom Menace premiered in 1999.

35.We are also further away from the premiere of Friends than the premiere of the show was to the moon landing.

The cast of Friends sucking on straws in milkshakes

Friends premiered in 1994, which is 28 years ago, while the moon landing happened in 1969 (which was 25 years earlier).

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36.Also, while we're at it, 1997 is closer to the year President Nixon resigned than to today.

Richard Nixon giving the victory sign as he heads into a helicopter

Richard Nixon's resignation had happened 23 years earlier, in 1974. We're now 25 years removed from 1997.

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37.Stu Pickles looked like a total adult on Rugrats, but he was only 33.

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And if Tommy were a real person, he'd almost be his age! When the show premiered in 1991, Tommy was a 1-year-old, which means his character would be 32 today.

38.And George Jetson may have been from the very far-off future, but he was actually born in 2022.

39.There hasn't been a new episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show in 20 years.

Rosie on the show's set

The show aired its final episode in June 2002.

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40.And it's been 20 years since The Osbournes premiered on MTV.

Ozzy and his family sitting or standing together
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41.There are YA novels where the characters find out about very ancient things, like the TV show Felicity...

42....and LiveJournal.

43.You singing along to Kelly Rowland and Nelly's "Dilemma"...

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44....or Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" today would be like someone in 2002 singing along to a song from 1982.

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45.And lastly, we're now closer (by a lot) to the opening of the Nickelodeon time capsule than to when it was buried.

Nickelodeon time capsule "sealed April 30, 1992; open April 30, 2042"

The time capsule was buried in 1992, which was 30 years ago, and won't be opened until 2042, which is 20 years from now. And yes, 50 years will have passed.

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