the age of the SL user - I wonder who are the oldest ?

[Lexxi Gynoid]

On 11/16/2022 at 4:25 AM, Phil Deakins said:

Remembering watching the king's funeral (1952) live on TV must make me feel older than what you feel with computers .

One of my earliest tv watching memories inolved being home from school, ill, and watching the Challenger explode live on tv. 

Wait. That happened in 1986. For some reason I thought that was 1983.  hmm. Well, early memory, but I'd been alive before that so I must have earlier tv memories. 

[Katherine Heartsong]

I recently mentioned I remember listening to the last Leafs Stanley Cup winning game on the radio with my dad and grandfather (on my grandfather's farm) and the person I was talking to said, in all seriousness, "The Leafs have won a Stanley Cup?".

Then again, had one university student once say to me, "What's D-Day?" so nothing really surprises me at my age anymore.

[Rolig Loon]

1 hour ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

Then again, had one university student once say to me, "What's D-Day?" so nothing really surprises me at my age anymore.

It doesn't take long for the collective memory to get muddied or vanish altogether.  In the 1980s, I had college students who couldn't tell me what continent the Mekong River is on, barely a decade after the Viet Nam war ended. I knew people -- my own classmates in the 50s and 60s -- who died there or came back forever changed, but the next generation had no idea where they had fought.

[Love Zhaoying]

1 minute ago, Rolig Loon said:

In the 1980s, I had college students who couldn't tell me what continent the Mekong River is on, barely a decade after the Viet Nam war ended. I knew people -- my own classmates in the 50s and 60s -- who died there or came back forever changed, but the next generation had no idea where they had fought.

In my case - born in 1966 - I never heard of the "Mekong" River BUT:

..In my neighborhood, there are lots of Vietnamese restaurants, and one is "Me Kong".  So, I learned what the "Mekong River" was about 20 years ago because of that restaurant.

 

[Orwar]

5 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

It doesn't take long for the collective memory to get muddied or vanish altogether.  In the 1980s, I had college students who couldn't tell me what continent the Mekong River is on, barely a decade after the Viet Nam war ended. I knew people -- my own classmates in the 50s and 60s -- who died there or came back forever changed, but the next generation had no idea where they had fought.

   It'd have to get into the collective memory first.

 

 

[Phil Deakins]

I was reading the latest posts in this thread and something occurred to me. It's fully 16 years since I joined SL. In 2 years time, I will have been here since before some users were born. I never thought of it that way before. In fact, I'm sure I was here before some of the current users were born.

 

[Cinnamon Mistwood]

5 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

I was reading the latest posts in this thread and something occurred to me. It's fully 16 years since I joined SL. In 2 years time, I will have been here since before some users were born. I never thought of it that way before. In fact, I'm sure I was here before some of the current users were born.

 

Ummm, no.  I will not be thinking "I've been in world longer than you've been alive."  That just goes too far.  Just forget that you thought that thought, Phil.