[ZetaLuvBunny]

Okay, sorry to burst peoples' bubbles, but I was born in 1983, and I remember MOST of those things!!! Some of them may have been things I "heard" about later on, but many I actually remember/know about.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by deltaphi94
[B]>The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.
**uh, I started college LAST fall, and I was born in '83!

>They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
**I knew about him being shot even though it happened before I was born, and I also vividly remember the election year George Bush, Sr., was FIRST running for office, because I said to my grandma something about "I can't believe the fat man won and not the skinny man." LOL

>Atari predates them
**my best friend in 3rd grade had one of these

>They have likely never played Pac Man
**I played Pac Man plenty of times!

They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is
**My mom used these on me!

or know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.
**We used to joke about this ALL THE TIME in elementary school.

>Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
**Yes, I had both the nice leather roller SKATES as well as the crappy plastic skates that you could buy at your local gas station waaaay before I ever got rollerblades.

>They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
**I had a few pairs, they were still cool all through the '80s.

>They have never seen Larry Bird play.
**True, BUT, I did know who he was even back in the '80s cuz we talked about him in West Virginia History class since he used to play for WVU.

>They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
**I saw this movie plenty of times when I was small, even though the first one came out about a yr or two before I was born.

>They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
**my mom told me she used to have some

>They don't know who Mork was
**I watched re-runs of this all the time.

>They never heard: "Where's the beef? ", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," or "De plane, de plane! "
**I've heard about all of these.

>They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
**We had one when I was little. We didn't have a computer until 1996!