ARE YOU FEELING OLD?

If not, consider this: The people who are starting college this fall across 
the nation were born in 1980.

* The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
* They have no memory of a time before M-TV.
* "New Wave" is their PARENTS musical generation.
* Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols -if they have 
  heard of them at all,    are all old musicians 
* They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
* They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
* If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a losing Congressional 
  candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey history text's reference, such as might be 
  made to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.
* Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
* Their world has always included AIDS.
* Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
* They see "Family Ties" as something middle-aged ladies watch.
* They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids -- on  video.
* Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes; they may have heard of 
  an 8-track, but probably never actually seen (or heard) one.
* From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
* As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
* The oil crisis is history or which they probably know nothing -- and why anyone WOULDN'T 
  buy a Suburban is beyond them.
* Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if they went to Catholic schools.
*The digital Disc was presented to Wall street when they were 1 year old.
*Few, if any, have lived without an answering machine.
*Few have used a TV set with only 13 channels.
*Some use the word "clickers" for "remote control", yet they do not know why they say it.
*They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
*The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
*They probably can't tell you why it's called a "dial tone".