Those born in 1989

[NJmaverick]

Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year’s incoming freshmen. Here’s this year’s list:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1989.

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They are too young to remember the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can’t imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: “Where’s the Beef?”, “I’d walk A mile for a Camel”, or “de plane, Boss, de plane.”

They do not care who shot J. R. And have no idea who J. R. even is.

McDonald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don’t have a clue how to use a typewriter.

[succubus.blues]

1. oh dear god

I am old! :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

2. They must recycle that list since the first CDs were on sale in 1982

[MonkeyFunk]

14. yeah, and AIDS has been a part of everybody's lives since

1981, at least, and the Challenger blew up in '86

[mikeytherat]

21. That's when I stopped reading "the list" - I bought my first CD player in '84

A Magnavox, which I still have (still works, too).

mikey_the_rat

[Neoma]

3. I am one of these, and these three are wrong:

They cannot fathom not having a remote control - Unless you have a very old TV.
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave - I've had camping popcorn before...
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws - I beg to differ.

[stuntcat]

22. Jaws is for EVERYONE!

sweeeeeet!! :headbang:

[sammythecat]

31. Jesus!

Would "shark whispering" help with this guy?

[mainegreen]

4. In my mind, those born in 1989 are small children.

:P

[Neoma]

5. Are not!

[mainegreen]

6. Shhhh! Don't interrupt your elders!

:P

[charlie and algernon]

7. my younger brother, born in 1990, is starting college

I can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that kids born in the 90s are now starting college.

[madinmaryland]

8. Eek! My son,

born in 1990, will be a senior in high school next year!

[fight4my3sons]

9. what!?

I can't be that old already. That's the year I graduated high school. :-(

[madinmaryland]

10. Youngster!! That's the year my brother graduated!

[fight4my3sons]

12. feels like yesterday

damn, time flies by

[Phillycat]

13. Me too!

:cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. My daughter was born in 1990, and starts college this fall.

She knows how to use a typewriter and has feared the dreaded Jaws while swimming. We did not have an answering machine or cable until she was 7. And, on edit, I often make popcorn without the benefit of a microwave. Either in a pan, or Jiffy pop or air popped.

[CreekDog]

15. Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show in 1993

i think they know who J.R.R. Tolkien is :think:

everyone's a critic! :rofl: :hi:

[NJmaverick]

17. I guess they should have said, they don't remember seeing anyone other than Leno

as I doubt there were many 1-4 year olds staying up to watch the Tonight Show :hi:

[CreekDog]

20. oh i dunno about that

there are a lot of bad parents out there! :rofl:

[av8rdave]

16. CDs came a little earlier than 1989

When I was sitting alert in the military in 1986 or maybe 1987 we had a navigator with a CD player. I had a CD player in my home when my daughter was born in 1989.

First album I heard on a CD? The Joshua Tree. First CD I owned? Talking Heads "True Stories."

Guess I'm showing my age.

[Maestro]

27. I posted this too before I read your post.

You are correct. I bought my first cd player for something like $400.00 after saving one summer. It broke me! :)

[Arugula Latte]

29. Yep. I remember a rich kid in my dorm brought in his CD player ... in 1985.

I was impressed, and intimidated.

[av8rdave]

32. It was like science fiction, wasn't it?

I grew up (including my college years) with vinyl.

[Arugula Latte]

34. I still had vinyl, and also cassette tapes, for a long time.

I didn't get around to getting a CD player until about '95. But, then, I'm always about ten years behind the times when it comes to technology. :)

[av8rdave]

36. I still have a TON of vinyl, but nothing to play it on...

One of these days, I need to get one of those turntables that lets you convert it to digital.

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Whoever you got that from is recycling an old list.

Beloit didn't do the "mindset list" thing when I was there, it started around 1999 or 2000. But this has NOTHING to do with any list they may have produced (unlikely, as frosh don't get on campus till August) for the incoming class.

CDs were introduced in '82, I think. In any case, WAY before 1990. And the actual date of the introduction of the CD was reflected in the actual mindset list that came out 7 or 8 years ago.

Google "beloit college mindset list." That'll get you the most recent one. Which won't be as fun as they were a decade ago, when I was fresh out of school. ;)

[bertha katzenengel]

19. ...or what a typewriter even IS. One of my cow-irkers brought

her daughter to work just to show her a typewriter.

[DFW]

23. They don't remember the Berlin Wall

And when right-wing loonies accuse us of being "kommanists," they have to ask
someone WTF a communist is.

I was in Germany the night the wall fell. My wife (who is German) and I just stared
at the TV screen asking each other, did you hear what I think I just heard? Only the
most significant even in German history since the fall of the Third Reich.

[MissHoneychurch]

38. I was on the other side of the wall

living in Leipzig.

I am more than happy that the wall came down. Next year it will be 20 years. Already. Damn, I'm getting old :rofl:

[Shine]

24. OK, you're freakin' me out. Stop it.

now I feel REALLY old. :(

[Maestro]

25. The CD was not introduced the year they were born.

I've had CDs since '86 or '87 IIRC.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

28. I called bullshit on that too........

I distinctly remember getting my first CD (Led Zeppelin "The Song Remains The Same" 2-disc set)in 1987 for HS graduation.

Wiki says they've been commercially available since '82.

[nomorenomore08]

26. I was born in '84, and a lot of that could apply to me as well.

Besides, as some have already noted, the kids starting college now were born in 1990. Your list is a year late. :P

[Critters2]

33. You were born the year I finished grad school. That explains why I feel so old.

I am old. :cry:

[Arugula Latte]

30. The Jay Leno one is the one that most astounds me.

:wow:

[Carnea]

35. They don't remember a communist china.

There was always cell phones and the intranets. Madonna was their parents music.

[realisticphish]

37. a lot of these are BS, as previously demonstrated higher up

they pretty much recycle the same list each year.

Especially the one about cable, answering machines,etc.

Why wouldn't they know about jaws? everyone's seen jaws

They might as well start the "durr, what's a record?" crap. Anyone over the age of ten knows what a record is, even if they've never played one.


And, I know who J.R., and who shot him. And I still don't give a shit ;)