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> "I couldn't tell you a modern singer if you asked me," he says. Not sure about music but in architecture 'modern' was already in 40s.
by timeon 3y ago
> "I couldn't tell you a modern singer if you asked me," he says.
Not sure about music but in architecture 'modern' was already in 40s.
- goatlover 3y ago80s rock is considered classic now.
- function_seven 3y agoIt was a really jarring moment when I forgot my phone a couple weeks ago. I listened to FM radio for the first time in years. The oldies station. The one my mom listened to all the time that played a mix of Big Band, Doo-wop, and some 60s rock. But what I heard was Smells Like Teen Spirit.
- macshome 3y agoYeah. Life comes at you fast doesn’t it? My son, who is 17, said that they were talking about “the late 1900s” in class the other day and I could almost feel my body turning into dust.
- agentultra 3y agoI work with people half my age now. Some of them have bigger titles than me. And they couldn't tell you what an AT command or a segmented memory address is. I am practically the crypt keeper.
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- Merad 3y agoBrace yourself, but the classic rock station around here plays tons of stuff from the 90s and even early 2000s.
- wharvle 3y agomodern adjective 1. Of or relating to recent times or the present. "modern history." 2. Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date. "a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking."
- Der_Einzige 3y agoStop being dense on purpose. The OP was obviously talking about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism
- wharvle 3y agoThat is what timeon meant, yes. It’s not what the bit timeon quoted meant.