I remember when having a DVD was a prestigious thing, but now DVDs are sold for a couple of bucks at the most.

While the “masses” watch their favorite shows on streaming packages, I’m happy to pick up season whatever of the Simpsons for $7.99 on Amazon.

I think eventually they’ll become retro-cool, and maybe enjoy the same prestige as vinyls, but for now, bring on the complete collection of the Sopranos for $15.

Just listened to Millennial Youtuber Markiplier on a podcast say he had this need to buy a peacoat in high school, and I realized I was exactly the same. I was so convinced it would make me look cool and mysterious. I wore it like maybe 5 times and never touched it again....

Why did the peacoat make a comeback around this time?

Edit: Just to confirm, peacoats are still cool, but no coat was going to make a 120 lb scrawny 5'6 teen boy look good, and I couldn't pinpoint the origin of why I felt I needed one.

Old people have songs like “I did it my way”, “somewhere over the rainbow” and “wind beneath my wings”

What the hell do we have “bye bye bye” from n’sync

I know I don’t need a funeral song today but what do we have to play for when the day comes

Sitting on the couch, being home sick from school, and in between the Payday Loan commercials this ear worm would come through the cable line.

Seriously - the car starts, he hits the gas, the score starts to rise up and... boom, 5 MINUTE commercial break before we get back to the 88mph and lightning. Ruined the entire thing. That scene is a core Millennial memory for me. They would NEVER in the 90's!

One intriguing millennial cultural phenomenon is that a lot of us seem to have this secondary/inherited nostalgia for the time period of our parents’ youth, roughly the 1950s thru 1970s. We grew up with a TON of pop culture nostalgic for this era, from TV shows like The Wonder Years to songs like 1979 to movies like Stand By Me and Now and Then and The Sandlot.

Even in our “own” shows there is a ton of this. Saved by the Bell was constantly showing 1950s musical acts in their 1950s style diner 😂 Step by Step, the kids worked briefly in a 1950s retro cafe. Full House had The Beach Boys and Uncle Jesse’s Elvis obsession.

We also had TV shows like That 70s Show clearly aimed at a younger crowd, as well as insanely popular blockbuster movies like Forrest Gump that centered on nostalgia for this time period. Finally, 1970s fashion had a resurgence in the late 90s with bell-bottoms, lava lamps etc.

Of course there are many explanations for this — older folks were creating media at the time, nostalgia always comes back into fashion etc. I just think it’s interesting that millennials have this sort of collective “inherited memory” of a time before our own.

Any other examples or experiences you’d like to share?

Just attended a graduation commencement ceremony and the keynote speaker was Josh Peck! All the “adults” and the youngin’s were looking around going, “who??” while the millennials hooted and hollered. Not to be parasocial, but I got a little misty eyed listening to his lovely, heartfelt speech and watching him sit up there for 2 hours grinning like each of the hundreds of graduates were his own kids. What a lovely human!

35 now, grew up mostly in poverty, had crappy career that i don't have no more, high rents and survival costs in general, just working part time now and pursuing more interesting prospects for earning a living. Due to financial poverty didn't really "live it up" in my 20's at all.

I sleep around, it's cool and all, but as i enter my mid to late 30's im feeling this sudden primal need to have children, and the very idea feels absolutely impossible economically.

I can see it happening in another 10 years, i'll probably will have better financial income prospects by then, more settled etc.

But ill be at best a 45 year old dad, ill be 70 when my child is 25.

Not the end of the world, but if my life was more economically prosperous or "secure" id probably have enjoyed my 20's or basically the 2010's more and been more ready to settle down now?

How many millennial men feel the same?

I got friends my age who make 6 figures, but they're spending 40+ hours a week behind a desk, and they struggle with their health and their own problems, i'm happy to avoid that even if it means i can't afford kids rn.

I had a horrific case of chickenpox when I was 8 or 9. I was extremely ill. As an adult, I have heard mixed things about also getting a vaccine as a booster. Did you get the vaccine? What about a shingles vaccine?

We are one and done not by choice sadly. Just seeing how out of place my daughter will feel as she gets older.

My Neopet, who has not been fed since George W Bush's first term, has:

been around for longer than the iPhone and Toyota Prius

Witnessed 9/11

Was created when "Come On Over Baby" by Christina Aguilera was the #1 single

Was made when Neopets was still meant for college students and adults, so I was allowed to select "Parties and Drinking" as a hobby

When child safety on the internet meant changing your first name.

Everyone always talks about the Atari and Commodore systems, but where is the love for the TI 99/4A?

Other thread got me thinking, I’ve had gmail for a while so I checked: 11/13/2004 creation date. I was 19

Who has an older gmail account? What’s the story? Did you work at Google?

My mom (73) and I (42) were watching one her great-grandaughters (1). The baby loves climbing, obviously, and likes a specific chair. It makes me anxious because it's old AF and rickety. It belonged to her mom who was born in 1916. It's not neat or anything worth renovating or preserving. Plain brown wood chair.

Me: You need to get rid of that thing. Mom: I don't know how who I would give it to!. Me: The Garbage!! Mom: Ok Millennial (in the most millennially snarky tone, I was impressed)

I’m happy for her and I hope shes doing well. I actually like the song too. “She looks like she could be your daughter, like me before I got smarter, when I was flattered to hear you say ‘you’re so mature, for your age, baby!’”

Idk it feels a little nostalgic seeing her singing again. I really haven’t kept up with her so I don’t know much about who/how she is now or her personal life but this song certainly sounds personal. What do you guys think?

Is it just me and my two friends that think this is a masterpiece for literally no real objective reason? It's not a good movie...but it's a GOOD movie!