At one point in time I was one of, if not the youngest user on this board. So, really, I'm not the best person to complain about the ravages of time - I'm still a young man.

However...lately I've been feeling kind of old, and to understand where I'm coming from, one must first understand that culturally I'm about a decade older than I am physically.

Some of you are probably saying "What the hell does that mean?" Well, my oldest sibling is currently 32, my sibling closest in age is almost 26. I grew up kinda poor, not too bad; upper lowerclass, lower middleclass something like that. However, where I grew up was really, in the middle of nowhere - there were no other kids to come and hang out, no neighbors at all, just us. So, I came to really rely on my siblings. I learned to like what they felt a kid of my age should like; I watched VHS tapes of shows they likes (or re-runs), I watched the movies they liked, I played NES games. From what my brothers offered me, and the fact that Disney was in the habit of running re-runs, I lived culturally out of sync - 87 Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Rescue Rangers, Punch-Out, Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and hand-me-down toys were my existence for the first real years of my childhood.

Once I went to school I adapted somewhat, but I never really grew to like what was the norm - I didn't like Spongebob, I didn't like pokeman, I didn't like Digimon, I didn't like Yu-Gi-Oh- I just didn't have any kid interests in common. But, as I got older and developed more adult tastes I guess you could say that I "caught up."

Now, closer to the point of the thread - When Harold Ramis died, it really saddened me. Ghostbusters was HUGE to me as a kid (even if it was over a decade after it came out) because my siblings made it that way for me. My closest friends, on the other hand, really didn't do anything more than shrug. At the same time, I'm seeing them all in a tizzy about Twitch plays Pokeman- I could care less.

Then came the day I spoke with my nephew- he's five. He told me that he and his older brother were going to watch "the old ninja turtles." When he put my sister back on the phone, I made a joking comment that I saw she'd "Found the old Ninja Turtles VHS tapes." She said no, and that the boys were watching a DVD of the "newer Ninja Turtles." The boys were watching the 03 series and it was "The Old Ninja turtles."

Now, just today I watched this. Now, I'm not that old, but my Great-Grandparents had a rotary phone and I remember it from when I was little - still, I don't blame the kids for not knowing that. However, their sheer lack of knowledge about basic land-line phones made me feel super...frustrated? I mean, for God's sake texting from it? I remember when my older brothers got their first cell phones, and I don't believe those could text. Now, remember, I grew up in an economically depressed small town that only ever had one cell carrier (still does), so our entire town was behind the times, but still.

Anyway, I'm just curious as to events that have made you guys feel out of date or old. Hell, hearing me complain about feeling old probably makes older users here feel old because I used to be "that dumbass kid" - still am.

But really, what makes you feel old and out of touch?