Anyone else not have their head around what year it is?

[Digital Watches]

I seem to be stuck around 2002-2004 in my estimation of time.

What I mean by this is, I'll continually think of things as about ten years old that are from the early nineties or late eighties. Like, I was talking to someone, and they had to point out to me that Back to the Future came out around twenty years ago, and then another time, someone was talking about how the Clinton presidency was almost ten years ago. I also seem to think of anything from 2001 or so forward to be REALLY recent.

Except I know in the back of my head that's not quite right. It's especially weird when I'm trying to look up a movie on IMDB or something and it turns out it came out in like... 2003, when I thought it was much more recent.

Anyone else have this problem?

[Will Gotti]

Well I miss when I was really young like during the early 80's. I look back and it just seemed like a cool time period to be at least a teenager or older. So now for me the early 2000's are like the early 80's for me. I'm sure you get what I'm trying to say.

[Alzarath]

I hear bouncing around the timestream will do that to ya.

[Satomiblood]

It's always 1995 in my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpHLEm9-0bg

[fistoftheryustar]

I keep feeling however it was at around 2001-2005 is the norm and everything now is like the temporary subsitute or the exception. Its been a boring few years for me and during 2000-2005 i really grew and had the best experiences of my life.

Even in my talents and hobbies, those years felt like the golden years.

[TheSix]

Mid 90s is where it's at....was.

God Tier time for gaming, cartoons and just being a kid overall.

I get this feeling a lot. It's amazing to me that it's been 8 years since I was running to Toys R Us to get my PS1 and MGS. I remember the weather and everything I did that morning.

And now it's a whole decade later. Crazy.

[BBQ]

Some things that I come across especially on the internet, like an album or movie that was made in 2002, I kind of shake my head and think to myself "damn, it seemed like yesturday that shit was new to me." I think when I started my short military career in 02' I kind of lost track on a lot of things and so when I got out last year I started to have a lot of moments like that.

[Buz]

1997 for me

[El Maniatico]

still stuck around 05-07

[scum gale 88]

I feel the same way....weird.
like, I reflect on 80s and 90s stuff more than anything recent.
if its shit I care about it just kinda freezes for me. I can remember sitting in my room playing Golden Axe with my friend, that was almost 9 years ago but it feels like yesterday. Ill ask him "hey, remember when we were playing Zombies Ate My Neighbors and beat the final boss?" and he would look confused and Id be like "come on!" like it didnt happen that long ago. Ive been with my gf for 4 years and when I look back on our relationship it doesnt feel like any time has passed, or rather, not 4 years. sometimes I think Im in some sort of weird groundhog day scenario where events just replay over and over and Im stuck.

I like to think Im still stuck in the 1999-2004 timespan

pee wees playhouse came out in 1986?! it feels so much more recent than that

[jubeh]

Holy shit Bill and Ted is almost 20 years old. WHAT IS GOING ON?

But, yeah I do the exact same thing.

[v1y]

yeap when i was little time passed by so slowly... now it's going by so fast. we're almost half way done 2008.

[Ducky]

I'm the same way, but I think it's just because as I get older my perception of time changes. When I was a kid, a summer lasted forever because it was a more significant portion of my life - if I only lived for a few years, a few months is a pretty long time, comparatively. A summer now is a very insignificant period of time because I've been alive for much longer. Things don't feel like they happened so far back because of that, I think.

[Will Gotti]

yeap when i was little time passed by so slowly... now it's going by so fast. we're almost half way done 2008.

My parents always told me that when I get older it will seem like time starts to fly. Time definitely felt much slower as a kid. I think back to HS, I graduated 13 yrs. ago in 1995 :wtf:, and it seems like yesterday. I think back to my time in the Army, I was there from 1998-2003, and that seems like longer ago than HS but I still remember it. It's just weird because I'm a futurist/forward thinker so I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of time itself. I get severe nostalgia but then my mind is constantly zooming into the future thinking about well the future.

[Zulu]

I wish it was still 1996. It was just the best time. I was playing Tekken 2, and watching Power Rangers. It's depressing realizing that not only is time going by way too fast, I'm not a kid anymore.

2002 seems like fucking yesterday.

[fistoftheryustar]

Mid 90s is where it's at....was.

God Tier time for gaming, cartoons and just being a kid overall.
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true that.

also its gunna feel weird when 2010 rolls along, i for some reason am barely getting used to it being called the 2000s so even if a movie came out in 2002 i still consider it relatively new

[*InVeRs3*]

I still think i'm 18 but i'm 21. I'm 3 years behind every year.

[Violent By Design]

Yeah it's hard to believe that 1998 was 10 years ago. I still treat things that came out in 03 like they came out yesterday.

[MAGUS1234]

shit 03 WAS yesterday for me. Fuck....where my grunge rock went?

[Einlanzer]

im stuck in the 90's wearing my fubu jerseys.

[Zulu]

^ I had a ugly purple BOSS shirt. =\

Also realize that MvC2 and 3S are both almost 10 years old. That's just nuts.

[alchemist78]

Yeah I still refer to games on the 64 and snes and regular nes, no realizing that the 64 came out in like 96 or something? Time flies

[Septimus Prime]

If I were 10 years older, I'd have a lot more money.

[Grits'N'Gravy]

It's all about 1990-95

New jack swing is on the radio, Super NES, nobody has a GOD DAMN CELLPHONE, Street Fighter, great movies and a strong American economy.

What the fuck happened!?

[JiBbo]

Happens to me every time I go to the bank. Can't remember if it's 2008 or 2007.

[megaultrasuper]

Jesus, my nephew mind fucked me when he was talking about playing the old Nintendo when he was little. He was talking about the N64

[FighterX]

I gradded in 95' and like Will Gotti, I can't believe it's already been 13 years. That shit just FLEW by. I'm 31, however, I feel like I'm about 22, so I've always had trouble wrapping my brain around the time and year. We just started this year, and already we're about 1/2-way through.

It's always been to the point that by the time I actually start using and thinking the correct year, it's around October and the year changes again in a few months. The cycle just repeats itself.

Amazing.

[alchemist78]

I just feel like since the "new millenium" started, shit has been goin hella fast.

[Monte]

No matter what year it is I'm always staying sucka free in '93. :cool:

[Grits'N'Gravy]

I just feel like since the "new millenium" started, shit has been goin hella fast.


I think it might be the lack of "perminance" of things. When was the last good movie you saw in 2008? I haven't seen one. There hasn't been any really memorable pop music or innovative tv to speak of in the last couple years.

Everything is "retro", you know the culture is bad when all the kids do is look back/act depressed all the time.

[alchemist78]

That and I think shit used to come at you slower back then so it had more time to resonate with you. Now in this internet age, shit happens so fast, and you discover and forget things so quickly that only things that seem concrete are things from before the internet age, for those of us who were at an age of reckoning

[coco_j]

Until 2004 I subconsciously thought it was still 2000. Now in the back of my mind its 2004. Scary fuckin shit.

[BBQ]

^Definately agree on the internet, I lived a lot differently even when my parents had 56k, and actually I think as of now my "salad days" where right before my parents switched to dsl.

[AmbiguousCrosup]

No matter what year it is I'm always staying sucka free in '93. :cool:

From 93 'til (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mt3vZHDiM8&fmt=18)

[themachinist]

I keep thinking the late 90's were like 'yesterday' but in reality like a decade ago, wtf!

Are we going to be saying the year two thousand ten or the year twenty ten? Twenty ten sounds so WIERD but I'm betting it'll be that since it's shorter to say.

[alchemist78]

This is how we chill...

[fP_tHuG]

i graded '05, talking to my co-workers who are turning 19, reminiscing about high school days, i would say "back in my generation", then i would pause <<<<< wtf? i felt old just saying that, being 20 makes me feel old.

[Will Gotti]

i graded '05, talking to my co-workers who are turning 19, reminiscing about high school days, i would say "back in my generation", then i would pause <<<<< wtf? i felt old just saying that, being 20 makes me feel old.

:wtf: are you talking about? You're only at most 2 yrs. older than them.

[fP_tHuG]

:wtf: are you talking about? You're only at most 2 yrs. older than them.

exactly that moment i got mind fucked, i thought i was like 25

[Random_Hero]

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. Takes longer to go around but once you get to the end you run out fast.

[Ouroborus]

for me it feels like 2003

[ethnic_scrap]

Man, I thought I was the only one that has the same mindset. I always keep thinking "back in high school" was just a few years previous, but when i think about it its been 10 freaking years.

[white shadow]

I think what's weird is that I remember September 11 like it was yesterday and yet it's been 7 years already. Subconsciously I'm always thinking it happened in 2004 because 2004 seemed to be a culmination of all the events proceeding the attack.

97-99 was the greatest period of my life for cartoons. The nonstop Toonami/ Proto-Adult Swim block along with Kids WB DC hour and Eek the Cat- then Nick and Snick cartoons on the weekends. It was just a cornucopia of toons.


2000-2004 was the greatest period of gaming simply because of Marvel. I lived and breathed that game as well as lurked here constantly for every grain of footage possible. But yeah other games were great too, but none could bring the thrill of competition like Marvel in its heyday.

[Adam Warlock]

In my head, I'm always 22. I have to actively remind myself that I'm nearly 30.


2000-2004 was the greatest period of gaming simply because of Marvel. I lived and breathed that game as well as lurked here constantly for every grain of footage possible. But yeah other games were great too, but none could bring the thrill of competition like Marvel in its heyday.


haha and nigga you still suck!

[Grog]

I was talking with some co-workers and I couldn't remember a song's name. I said it was a newer song from so and so, they kept guessing and finally got it, turned out it was from '02 and they were having a melt down that it wasn't a "newer" song, but hell it feels like music from 2000 on seems new still.

[Arsenal]

I'm stuck in 2001-03. Forever.

[alfaphlex]

What really gets me like O_O?! is while browsing other forums and kids talking about hip-hop and how all this new music is garbage, which I agree with. Then they go and say something like "dat old-school shit is where it's at" and start dropping names like Biggie, Tupac, etc...

That's shit bugs me out cuz to me, old school is the 80's, not the 90's, but when you look back, those tupac/biggie days was almost 15yrs ago... wtf.

[Bounce]

08 so far so great, but all is old is kinda new, A good Nintendo System, an experimental Sony system and a new comer looking to crown itself after establishing birth rights. The Magic were in the playoffs. The Giants won. And The economy is in a down turn. Yep, its almost like it was when I was a child, except now I can podcast and stream tv (yeah).

[Capn Spanky]

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. Takes longer to go around but once you get to the end you run out fast.

I believe this can be explained by the Twin Paradox and Einstein's theory of relativity. Simply put, an object higher off of the Earth travels through time faster. Therefore, as you get older (and hopefully, taller) Time passes much quicker.

None of this statement is scientific fact. Look up the Twin Paradox though, it's neat!

[thurst]

i kinda have this problem me and my boy were talking about getting a new car and he's like "yeah it's a '98 hyundai" and i'm like oh it's only a few years old you should be good...until we both thought about it and realized that the 90's as a whole are 10 years ago.