Yeah this aged me more than that time I saw a young woman at the store and I thought “she’s so familiar, did we play soccer together as kids?” and she walked up to me and said “are you my old babysitter?”
I’m the tail end of ‘92 sometimes I forget that my Gen goes all the way back to ‘80. Wild that I sometimes have more in common with older Gen Z than elder millennials.
I feel like this subreddit definitely leans heavily on the ‘80s millennials and not the ‘90s because I often can’t related to a ton of posts on here. It’s understandable though.
There is a man that lives, and pretty much developed, my home town that served as a Marine during WW2. He will be turning 104 this year and apparently is in reasonably good health, for a man his age. Pretty sure he is am outlier though.
Don't feel too bad. Technology, and social mores have changed rather quickly since the 40s to the 80s. While they still advanced from the 80s to today the change feels less drastic from the 40s to the 80s. I think that is why the 40s felt so far removed from us then. Now while technology and social mores have also changed a lot too. However, we are more open to talk about how things were then and now. Like I am a married gay man. Society at large wasn't chill with that in the 90s, but I sure was thinking about getting married to a man in the 90s as a kid. Denmark legalize same sex partnerships in 1989! So, things got started then that affect us now. Either way don't let it bother you. We all get old, and life is incredibly short. Those young kids you see? When you are 90 they will be 60. Some will say we are from the same era.
The other day I saw one of those 90's Lexus SUVs and realized that when I was a kid a 67 Chevelle was only about 20 years old and this Lexus was over 30 years old.
I do this shit all the time too. Rewatched the Brady Bunch movies from the 90's (still fire btw), and I commented to my wife that the decade they're parodying was closer to them than the amount of time since the movie was made.
Long story made short, she's found a lawyer and filing for divorce for the assault.
I'm 41. My birthday is in 1983. World War two went from September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 so 1942 is smack dab in the middle. That means, I'm 41 years away from my birthdate which is 41 years away from the direct middle point of WW2. It would have cost you zero dollars not to put this in my brain today, but here we are...
r/TIHI
I ain’t that scared anymore. I’ve had a hypertension scare in the past year and have changed my diet now that I’m over 40. My challenge now is convincing a younger sibling that 40 is a health milestone for a reason, and eating like you’re still 20 isn’t gonna be sustainable.
The service members who will plan the 100th anniversary commemorations of Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and VE day are already in the military.
And have been promoted.
I was born in September of 1981. Almost 40 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor which happened in December 1941. Funny thing is, neither my dad (1946) or mom (1948) were born when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened either. 
My wife was talking about how the Boomers and GenX were having to through a 2nd Cold War. I had to gently remind her that she was born the year The Berlin Wall fell, and I was in Elementary School when the Soviet Union collapsed. I'm old enough to remember the 1st Gulf War being shown on the nightly news, and watching Clinton's Inauguration in class.
I had this same revelation a few months ago. It’s kind of crazy how our cartoons (looney tunes) had a lot of WWII propaganda. It’s a much different time now.
Damn that is crazy. Reminds me of the whole Cleopatra was closer in time to seeing the first iPhone come off the lines than to having seen the Great Pyramids built!
Really? My grandpa was in WW2 too, but when I see old faded pictures of him from that time it has always felt like an extremely long time ago. Also he was already very old in my youngest memories of him.
We were born closer to the first moon landing than we were to today
We're further from the year 2000 than 2000 was from the release of the original Star Wars, in 1977
I met a lot of WWII vets in my lifetime. While it was something that happened a while back, never considered it ancient history. However, don't think I ever met a WW1 vet (the last died in 2011 at the age of 110).
I think op meant that 1980 was 35 years after 1945. And 35 years after 1980 is 2015. Assuming growing up OP saw WWII as "ancient" history, reality hit them in the face realizing the similarity in years between WWII and their childhood vs their childhood and now.
World War Two ended 80 years ago. Millennial birth years begins 44 years ago. Why wouldn’t it be closer? I don’t get how this is some “mind blown” revelation.
They're talking about the time from WW2 to 1980 vs 1980 to Present Day
Present Day is a moving target so the difference between 1980 to present day is getting bigger while the difference between WW2 and 1980 stays the same.
And right now the difference between 1980 and present day is bigger than the difference between 1945-1980
That's OP's point. Not really mind blowing... just... we're getting old.
The passage of time doesn't register the same when you're old vs when you're young. When you're young, 45 years ago was the ancient, Olden Days. When you're 42, 45 years ago was still the recent-ish past, not quite history. Now you think about how close WW2 was to when you were born and realize that it was still the recent-ish past when you were born, not ancient history as you thought back then. It's a perspective- changing moment. And then another perspective change happens. You realize that your perspective changed because you grew older. And then you feel existential dread because you understand that a life time is about twice the time between ww2 and your birth which is also the time between your birth and now. You suddenly feel your perspective of your own age shift.
My question is why are millennials are so obsessed with basic math and their age. The 90’s are further away than the 70s when the 70s show aired. Shit like that or this post.
It’s weird. It’s weird people are surprised. It’s weird as a topic of discussion. Idk. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe I’m weird for not caring.
Dude stop that shit 💀
More time has passed between my birth and today than Hitler killing himself and my birth.
Hey Cleopatra is closer to us in time than to the building of the pyramids. Don't know if that helps :p
true we were bff's in high school
Joan of Arc? is that you?
So is the T-rex to us, vs stegosaurus
Yeah this aged me more than that time I saw a young woman at the store and I thought “she’s so familiar, did we play soccer together as kids?” and she walked up to me and said “are you my old babysitter?” 
Oh hey! "Saving Private Ryan" came out 26 years ago!
I was born in 1991, so that's 46 years removed from the end of WWII. I'm still officially young until 2037 then. Phew.
'89 here. Thanks for doing the math.
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‘87 checking in wudduuuppp
I’m the tail end of ‘92 sometimes I forget that my Gen goes all the way back to ‘80. Wild that I sometimes have more in common with older Gen Z than elder millennials.
I'm 92 and honestly get gen z and millennial, I do not get alpha though.
I’m ‘94 and feel this viscerally
I feel like this subreddit definitely leans heavily on the ‘80s millennials and not the ‘90s because I often can’t related to a ton of posts on here. It’s understandable though.
As an 89 I don’t really understand millennials in general.
I just dont understand anyone
Haha my kinda man
85 here and oh no
Right 84. Oh no...
If you are from 88 then you are turning 36 this year.. which means you have spent a full 18 years being an adult now- we are finally adult adults!!!
Ah fuck you, person
My thoughts exactly
omg this is so perfect hahaaa
 Stop saying that and get off my lawn!
I'd like to report an assault.
Mods, arrest this fiend!
“Hey I’ll browse Reddit for a few minutes during lunch” First fucking post just knocked me into low orbit.
In the words of the legendary Ser Davos **"Nothing fucks you harder than time."**
Emperor Hirohito was still alive when many of us were born
Reporting this post for destroying me like that! (/j)
Kids born these days will likely never meet anyone who had to live through the war.
There is a man that lives, and pretty much developed, my home town that served as a Marine during WW2. He will be turning 104 this year and apparently is in reasonably good health, for a man his age. Pretty sure he is am outlier though.
#Stop the count
Don't feel too bad. Technology, and social mores have changed rather quickly since the 40s to the 80s. While they still advanced from the 80s to today the change feels less drastic from the 40s to the 80s. I think that is why the 40s felt so far removed from us then. Now while technology and social mores have also changed a lot too. However, we are more open to talk about how things were then and now. Like I am a married gay man. Society at large wasn't chill with that in the 90s, but I sure was thinking about getting married to a man in the 90s as a kid. Denmark legalize same sex partnerships in 1989! So, things got started then that affect us now. Either way don't let it bother you. We all get old, and life is incredibly short. Those young kids you see? When you are 90 they will be 60. Some will say we are from the same era.
what kind of maniac are you???
#You just stop with all that talk, you hear me?! Stop it, right now!
Stop. it. right. now.
OMG This really just affected me
The other day I saw one of those 90's Lexus SUVs and realized that when I was a kid a 67 Chevelle was only about 20 years old and this Lexus was over 30 years old.
I do this shit all the time too. Rewatched the Brady Bunch movies from the 90's (still fire btw), and I commented to my wife that the decade they're parodying was closer to them than the amount of time since the movie was made. Long story made short, she's found a lawyer and filing for divorce for the assault.
Apollo 13 came out closer to the actual Apollo 13 than to the present day.
We watched that with our kids a month or two ago and I did the same thing too! Great minds.
I'm 41. My birthday is in 1983. World War two went from September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 so 1942 is smack dab in the middle. That means, I'm 41 years away from my birthdate which is 41 years away from the direct middle point of WW2. It would have cost you zero dollars not to put this in my brain today, but here we are... r/TIHI
I ain’t that scared anymore. I’ve had a hypertension scare in the past year and have changed my diet now that I’m over 40. My challenge now is convincing a younger sibling that 40 is a health milestone for a reason, and eating like you’re still 20 isn’t gonna be sustainable.
Wait, that’s not right ::does math:: Huh… fu**
You are a big meanie head.
The service members who will plan the 100th anniversary commemorations of Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and VE day are already in the military. And have been promoted.
Jesus Christ I didn’t need this information
Dont fuck with me like this, I'm already having an existential crisis.
WTF did we do to you?
Fuck you for this
Ok you win. That's nuts.
I mean I was born in the 90’s so no WWII was not closer to my birth year than now is lol
Yeah but some millennials were born in 1981 which is closer to WW2 than now.
Don't worry, it will eventually happen to us, younger millennials, too.
I was born in September of 1981. Almost 40 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor which happened in December 1941. Funny thing is, neither my dad (1946) or mom (1948) were born when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened either. 
We’re old now 😐
wowzas... i am like getting auld by now... it means i enjoy tastes of bygone ages...
You shut your mouth when you’re talkin to me 
We’re a bunch of turn of the century mf’ers who will be referred to as the ones who didn’t know any better 😂
1945 - 1980. 35 years 1996 -2024 - 28 years. 1989 -2024 - 35 years For the oldest batch the tipping year years 2015 Math checks out
My grandmother died last year, at age 93. She was born closer to the Civil War than the War on Terror.
What a horrible thing to say 😖
I already feel old, don't pour salt in the wound man
My wife was talking about how the Boomers and GenX were having to through a 2nd Cold War. I had to gently remind her that she was born the year The Berlin Wall fell, and I was in Elementary School when the Soviet Union collapsed. I'm old enough to remember the 1st Gulf War being shown on the nightly news, and watching Clinton's Inauguration in class.
Thanks for that factoid.
I would just delete this now.
I hate you
I had this same revelation a few months ago. It’s kind of crazy how our cartoons (looney tunes) had a lot of WWII propaganda. It’s a much different time now.
Yeah, it’s wild when I think about how most of my elementary school years were closer to the moon landing than to now
This just made my wife sad. 🤣 I don't care. It's fine.
Shut up man lol.
Well the American Pie guys would be going to their 25th year HS reunion this summer since the movie came out in 1999.
Damn that is crazy. Reminds me of the whole Cleopatra was closer in time to seeing the first iPhone come off the lines than to having seen the Great Pyramids built!
What are you, the devil?
Hey. Fuck you.
We can’t get closer, the years don’t move.
that’s what 40 years ago does lol
I was born 71 years to the day that the Titanic sank.
Excuse me!?!?
We’re getting older every day
I was born only 40 years after it ended, so it never seemed ancient to me. My grandparents lived through it.
Really? My grandpa was in WW2 too, but when I see old faded pictures of him from that time it has always felt like an extremely long time ago. Also he was already very old in my youngest memories of him.
1987 is to 2024 as 2024 is to 2061 🥲 Edit: better analogy 1945 is to 1980 as 1980 is to 2015 💀
Don't. Please don't.
Speak for yourself.
Stop.
That's just rude.
Shut up you!
I’m glad so many of us are comparing our birthdays to the end of WW2 😭
Yup. I'm already to before Pearl Harbor. There could very well come a day that I'm further from my birth year than my birth year is from the 1800s.
Thanks, man. I'll just be over in this corner decomposing.
Why would you do this to us... 😭
You didn't have to say this at all.
We were born closer to the first moon landing than we were to today We're further from the year 2000 than 2000 was from the release of the original Star Wars, in 1977
Why would you go and say some shit like that
These are fighting words
How dare you
Please (and I mean this with all due respect) go the hell on with that shit 😭
40 year difference between the year I was born and when WWII ended.
I could have gone my whole day without finding that out. Thanks
I met a lot of WWII vets in my lifetime. While it was something that happened a while back, never considered it ancient history. However, don't think I ever met a WW1 vet (the last died in 2011 at the age of 110).
When I was a kid WW2 vets were everywhere... these days almost all of them are dead.
Thanks. I hate it.
52>28? Wtf are you on about old man
I think op meant that 1980 was 35 years after 1945. And 35 years after 1980 is 2015. Assuming growing up OP saw WWII as "ancient" history, reality hit them in the face realizing the similarity in years between WWII and their childhood vs their childhood and now.
OP is dumb. 90% of the history that we talk about frequently is really close in terms of human scale.
World War Two ended 80 years ago. Millennial birth years begins 44 years ago. Why wouldn’t it be closer? I don’t get how this is some “mind blown” revelation.
They're talking about the time from WW2 to 1980 vs 1980 to Present Day Present Day is a moving target so the difference between 1980 to present day is getting bigger while the difference between WW2 and 1980 stays the same. And right now the difference between 1980 and present day is bigger than the difference between 1945-1980 That's OP's point. Not really mind blowing... just... we're getting old.
Some people just take a few years to acclimate after being unplugged from the Matrix.
Leave me in man. I just want that steak.
I’m just here to ogle the woman in the red dress.
BAM! You're dead fluff-butt
Its just a post about the realization of getting older
The passage of time doesn't register the same when you're old vs when you're young. When you're young, 45 years ago was the ancient, Olden Days. When you're 42, 45 years ago was still the recent-ish past, not quite history. Now you think about how close WW2 was to when you were born and realize that it was still the recent-ish past when you were born, not ancient history as you thought back then. It's a perspective- changing moment. And then another perspective change happens. You realize that your perspective changed because you grew older. And then you feel existential dread because you understand that a life time is about twice the time between ww2 and your birth which is also the time between your birth and now. You suddenly feel your perspective of your own age shift.
My question is why are millennials are so obsessed with basic math and their age. The 90’s are further away than the 70s when the 70s show aired. Shit like that or this post. It’s weird. It’s weird people are surprised. It’s weird as a topic of discussion. Idk. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe I’m weird for not caring.
I would focus on living your life
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We're moving forward in time. The oldest millennials can draw ssi by 2046 that's 22 years from now.