Are you feeling old? If not, consider this: The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged. Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression. Their world has always included AIDS. 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. The digital Disc was presented to Wall street when they were 1 year old. 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. 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.
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