Thanks for this thread. I've been sitting through Union onboarding safety training for the past 2 weeks, and being 41, the oldest one in class by a long shot (I was 6-8 years older than the instructors....). Feeling very old, talking about being the last generation to go through school with no internet, and only the encyclopedia britannica to fact check stuff. When we had the internet last years in highschool, but it was basically just the same encyclopedia britannica just online through dial up lol. These younger guys, 19-25, thought I was a dinosaur......Reading through this thread makes feel young again......
I remember being the TV remote, the dial up phones, with only one in the house, and a cord long enough to reach the bedrooms if you wanted privacy. The party line, one long two shorts was the one at my grandparents cottage. The nosey nextdoor neighbor that would pick up on every call.....A few of the others, but that was more a byproduct of growing up poor in a small town with small school) and older parents that were slow to adapt, not an age thing lol. I feel like I rode the last wave of that generation before the video games, and internet raised them.