Sobering Realization I Just Saw... Seems Impossible

[CallMeKate]

Saw this in my social media feed... there's that first initial "say what?" thinking the person made a typo... but it wasn't one.

"And just like that, 1974 was 50 years ago."

 

[hearlady]

We are The Elders now.

 

[hollydolly]

i know it's absolutely horrifying... time has just gone sooo fast... I was 19 in '74, in exactly 4 weeks from now Septemeber 23rd 1974 I moved here to England...

I often think... here I am at 69.. I might have 20 years left.. 20 years.. think about that ...it's such a short time...

The last 20 years seems like 5 years ago.. I mean, tonight I was looking at a video I made which is on Youtube... ( private Vid)... and I made that video 3 or 4 years ago.. 5 max.... I thought... when I looked at the date on the video, I'd made it in 2008 ...16 years ago !!.. horrified at how fast time has gone..

 

[Tish]

I was still in highschool, and it certainly does not feel like 50 years have passed.

 

[CallMeKate]

We are The Elders now.

Way to cheer us up, @hearlady !

 

[CallMeKate]

I was still in highschool, and it certainly does not feel like 50 years have passed.

Me too... counting the years until I could be a senior and get out of there. And now how I'd love to go back... just for a little while.

 

[caramel]

50 years?! It feels like 1974 was in another space-time continuum. There were no computers, no cell phones, hardly any electronics at all.

Looking back, it was like a whole other world. It could have been hundreds of years ago for how different it was.

 

[hearlady]

I was a junior in high school. Young and foolish and carefree.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I was in high school too. It feels like a lifetime ago.

 

[Kadee]

My youngest child was born in 1974 he’s 50 next month

 

[dilettante]

Graduated high school, entered college.

I try not to look too hard at such things. I used to feel that I was born well after WW II. Now it feels more like I was born on the heels of it.

 

[CallMeKate]

I used to feel that I was born well after WW II. Now it feels more like I was born on the heels of it.

Yeah, I've been there, too... I so clearly remember the day my daughter said, "Oh, Mama! The last Civil War veteran died in 1956 and that's just a year before you were born!"

 

[hollydolly]

Yeah, I've been there, too... I so clearly remember the day my daughter said, "Oh, Mama! The last Civil War veteran died in 1956 and that's just a year before you were born!"

I was born in the mid 50's... when my daughter was at school, she'd been learning in science class about electricity etc... and she came home one day straight-faced and very seriously said... ''Mum, did they have electricity in the cave when you were little '' ?


When I remind her of that now.. she retorts ''Well did they '' ?... cheeky minx....

 

[horseless carriage]

1974, the year of the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.

1974, the year of the boxing match known as: The Rumble in the Jungle (Zaire.) Muhammed Ali knocked out George Foreman in round eight.

 

[Georgiagranny]

50 years?! It feels like 1974 was in another space-time continuum. There were no computers, no cell phones, hardly any electronics at all.

Huh? I dunno where you were, but at UofM we had changed over almost everything to mainframe computers in 1958. The computers were reel-to-reel and in their own multi-story building.

 

[caramel]

Huh? I dunno where you were, but at UofM we had changed over almost everything to mainframe computers in 1958. The computers were reel-to-reel and in their own multi-story building.

Bet you had a heck of a time taking those home every night.

I was more referring to the personal computer that's ubiquitous today. In 1958, Bill Gates didn't even have the dream to have one in every house yet.

 

[mrstime]

I had been married for 17 years in 1974. Today we have been married 67 years and the time went by so fast it's like a blur! Our youngest child is now 63, he recently moved in with us because he knew we really needed the help,and he has been a huge help to us. We are so lucky!

 

[CallMeKate]

In 1958, Bill Gates didn't even have the dream to have one in every house yet.

True statement... he was 3 years old.

 

[hollydolly]

Huh? I dunno where you were, but at UofM we had changed over almost everything to mainframe computers in 1958. The computers were reel-to-reel and in their own multi-story building.

they certainly were.. and in the Punch tape typing pool where I was a junior in 1970..... the room next to it was the computer room.. they kept the Roneo Printing machine in there as well, and it was my job as the office junior to do all the messy printing,

so I was always fascinated to see what was going on in the Computer room.

the Computers were Massive.. and only the men were allowed to programme them

 

[hollydolly]

True statement... he was 3 years old.

born the same year as me... excellent year...

 

[hollydolly]

I had been married for 17 years in 1974. Today we have been married 67 years and the time went by so fast it's like a blur! Our youngest child is now 63, he recently moved in with us because he knew we really needed the help,and he has been a huge help to us. We are so lucky!

so you were married 2 years after my mum and dad...

 

[Feelslikefar]

In 1974, started my 4th year in the USAF and heading to Shemya, AFB.
New job, isolated base, looking forward to the challenge.
Single and just enjoying what the future held.

Remember my main concern in life was for my 1974 Guild D-25 guitar.

 

[Georgiagranny]

Bet you had a heck of a time taking those home every night.

I was more referring to the personal computer that's ubiquitous today. In 1958, Bill Gates didn't even have the dream to have one in every house yet.

LOL In 1958 Bill Gates was only three years old.

 

[caramel]

LOL In 1958 Bill Gates was only three years old.

He founded Microsoft in 1975. It will be 50 years old next year.

Things have changed a lot since then.

 

[chic]

Saw this in my social media feed... there's that first initial "say what?" thinking the person made a typo... but it wasn't one.

"And just like that, 1974 was 50 years ago."

I was still a teenager. I'm not going to let a number make me feel like a fossil now.