When you were little, how old did you think people used to get, and at what age did you consider a person old? (self.asklemmy)

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I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they're like 80.

I mean like actually "old". The "old" adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different "old".

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[-] Golfnbrew@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

When I was in grade school in the 60s, we had a math problem... "how old will you be in the year 2000?" I calculated 42 and thought "OMG, I'll be nearly dead by then"...

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That definitely makes you one of the older Lemmy users. How was life in the 60's? Was it as fun as it seems looking back?

[-] Golfnbrew@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Everything looks better looking backwards. But now is easily better. We had to go to the library and check out actual books, we had to research in the physical encyclopedias, cars were less comfortable... Heck, I'm on a hand-held computer we call a smartphone... :)

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

We had to go to the library and check out actual books, we had to research in the physical encyclopedias

That was true into the very late 90's. Heck, even in the 00's a lot of professors wouldn't accept internet sources for reports.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I was pretty young in the 60's but I always think that I'd going back to that time. Even if I could bring a laptop with me, I could use it to compile local applications but can't use it for any communications.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I always think that I'd going back to that time

I think you accidentally a word.

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