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Well, my point was more that "of course we think the 80s were significant because that's when so many of us were born", and less a discussion on the meaning of
by delecti 12y ago
Well, my point was more that "of course we think the 80s were significant because that's when so many of us were born", and less a discussion on the meaning of "opinion".
If some of the older posters (40-60 rather than 20-30) were to post a similar sentiment about the 80s then it would say more.
Edit: Alternatively, I'm very likely just projecting my age range on some posters who are in that age range, but them chiming up to confirm that fact would be helpful.
- mordechai9000 12y agoI was born in the 70s, and I feel my whole decade was left out of your age range.
- randallsquared 12y agoPeople who are in their 40s now were teens and young adults in the 80s, and are therefore likely to agree that that decade was significant, and I can understand that (I'm 41). Let me try to give a different perspective, though: Modern times seems to me to have started about when The Matrix came out and Google came along. It's truly amazing to me that we managed to get along without immediate and virtually unlimited access to any information about anything. Being able to just look things up completely changed my life. The internet was qualitatively enormously different when the best search engine was Altavista and most of my time was spent on IRC and Usenet.