45 Things That Will Make Every Millennial And Old Gen Z'er Feel Like They're 99 Years Old

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45 Things That Will Make Every Millennial And Old Gen Z’er Feel Like They’re 99 Years Old

1. First and foremost, the fact that 20 years ago was not the ’80s or even ’90s, but 2002 ?.

6. And to them, an iPod might as well be a boomer gadget.

11. …American Idol…

12. …and Twitter have always existed.

13. They’ve also never had to wait for a DVD to be mailed to them.

15. Destiny’s Child has never released new music in their lifetime. To them, Beyoncé has always been a solo act.

16. And they have no idea who the Spice Girls are.

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Which would make them as old today as David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. were in 1997.

21. If someone were to write a song like the Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” and set it back the same number of years, it would be called “2005.”

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When the Smashing Pumpkins released “1979” in 1996, they were 17 years removed from it — 2005 was 17 years ago for us currently.

22. And if someone were to write a song today like Bowling for Soup’s cover of SR-71’s “1985” and set it back the same number of years, it would be called “2003.”

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When the song was released in 2004, it was 19 years removed from 1985. And an updated version of the song would probably mention Britney Spears, Outkast, and Lindsay Lohan movies.

23. If Back to the Future were created today and set the same number of years back, it would take place in 1992. 1992!!!

24. Also, Marty would be traveling to the year when Aladdin was a hit movie!

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Yup, Aladdin is a 30-year-old movie!!! And if you want to think about it this way, it is now as old a movie today as The Godfather was in 1992.

25. While, if Now and Then came out today, it would take place in 1997.

26. And if Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery came out today, he would have been full of early-’90s references, as he would have been frozen in 1992.

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The first Austin Powers movie was released in 1997, and in it he had been placed in cryostasis 30 years earlier, in 1967.

27. Britney Spears’ music now gets played on the oldies station. ON THE OLDIES STATION.

31. Brad Pitt is 58 years old today, which is the exact age Morgan Freeman was when their movie Seven premiered.

32. Lindsay Lohan is older today than Tina Fey was when Mean Girls premiered.

33. Liam Neeson is older today than Alec Guinness was when he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars — while Ewan McGregor is older today than Liam was when he played Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace.

34. Also, we are further removed today from the release of The Phantom Menace than The Phantom Menace was from the release of Stars Wars: A New Hope.

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The Phantom Menace was released 23 years ago, while Star Wars: A New Hope had been released 22 years earlier (in 1977) when The Phantom Menace premiered in 1999.

35. We are also further away from the premiere of Friends than the premiere of the show was to the moon landing.

36. Also, while we’re at it, 1997 is closer to the year President Nixon resigned than to today.

37. Stu Pickles looked like a total adult on Rugrats, but he was only 33.

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And if Tommy were a real person, he’d almost be his age! When the show premiered in 1991, Tommy was a 1-year-old, which means his character would be 32 today.