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Ugh I thought I'd never say this, but I'm getting ancient. My twentieth birthday looms this Sunday.

Sitting here, thinking back over my memories from the early and mid 90s... they just make me feel even older.

And to think, if this were the middle ages, I'd be already married, maybe have a couple kiddies, and would have already inherited the family farm and/or business from pops.

...

Twenty years. I can't believe I'm so old. So dusty. So... outdated. The 50s and 60s music I call oldies has been supplanted by stuff from the 80s and 90s. Windows 3.1, the operating system of my family's first home computer, seems like a trilobite borne out of the primordial soup that was turn-of-the-decade technology. Two gigabytes of RAM seems like nothing, but twenty years ago, twenty megabytes was... a whole hell of a lot. It was something to have a 1GHz CPU. You were fucking RICH to have a computer that fast. Nowadays, 2GHz is slow. The Subaru Loyale has been supplanted by the Subaru Legacy and the Subaru Forester. The Honda Civic has grown from a sub-compact sedan to a compact sedan. The world's tallest skyscraper back then was the Petronas Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur. Today, it's the still-under-construction Burj Dubai (which is now taller than the CN tower). Back then, William "Bill" Clinton just about balanced the US budget. Today, Barack Obama battles the torrent of a crashing economy in a world that hates the United States. Back then, it was unheard of in my family to order anything off the Internet. Now, I purchase things on a regular basis off websites like Amazon and NewEgg. I have a debit card. I have a CAR (that is, itself, almost 20 years old). The Kuwait conflict has exploded into the Iraq war (both of which were pointless bits of oil-centric US foreign policy that were both instigated by presidents by the name of Bush).

That's just a small sampling of what's changed over the past twenty years. I feel old.

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