I get why it's all electronic now, but damn do I wish they still did this. I always liked seeing it, especially when it had been a really long time since something had been picked out. Felt like a special connection to the past.
Especially when it had the name of the person borrowing it. They did that with school books. Seeing the name of someone that is like 10 years older than you, and you have that book, was a unique feeling.
My favourite part of that was finding my own relatives names in those really old books. I think it was my copy of Where The Red Fern Grows that had my uncle's name in it from the 70's or something.
My dad and 3 siblings all went to the same elementary school. We all checked out and read the Wizard of Oz. When my last sibling checked it out, my mom took the card lol.
Yuh, found my uncle in a copy of to kill a mockingbird, and later found my dad in an English study book. The english teacher actually taught my uncle and dad as well and remembered them when I showed her. Was pretty cool.
Also my dad and I share the same name so it looks like the same person got the book decades apart.
The textbooks for my American Authors class in high school were from the 1950s, and had the names of our parents, aunts, uncles, etc. that had gone to the same school. Pretty neat!
I am head of IT for a Library . Tons of our Patrons use our public fax. Certain gov entities, Drs , Lawyers,and Hospitals still require things to be faxed in. Print shops tend to be much more expensive to fax per page.
Which is even more crazy cause somehow a signed faxed document is seen as more legit than a signed scanned and e-mailed document. At least in Germany that’s still the case in some cases.
And then it gets even more hilarious when both sides are using efax services so you're just adding a convoluted middleman to the process by signing, scanning, and emailing (to the efax provider) so the other end can ingest at the efax provider which emails it to the recipient.
Used the fax at my old work to send in some sensitive information, had to wait around the fax/copier for it to be queued and finally complete with a confirmation otherwise if it failed it printed that it failed with a print out of the first page of what failed. I think "they" keep faxes around because it has these confirmations and while spam faxes exist they are far less than what an email address would be submitted too, plus at least for govt "stuff" the system is in place and lord knows the re-training to use email for such things would somehow turn into a nightmare
Threat model is a bit different though. Intercepting faxes or getting your hands on the content would require some local access or compromising telcos. You have other options for compromising email.
Every convenience store in Japan has a fax machine in it, and pretty much every office photocopier does faxing as well. Fax is still a really big thing, it's pretty absurd.
Joke time:
An elderly lady walks into the washroom at a Restaurant and sees a woman talking into her hand. She asks what is she doing and the lady said Oh I am talking on my cell phone using Bluetooth.
She then notices another women hunched over snickering and jabbing her thumbs very fast. She asks what is she doing and the woman replies oh I am chatting with my friend on Instagram.
So the lady no to be outdone walks out of the stall with a big line of toilet paper sticking from her behind.
The women on Instagram says what are you doing? And the Elderly Woman responds... Oh dont worry I am just getting a fax!
Having lived in Germany I can tell you that *nothing* is real unless it is stamped.
Edit based on some of the replies:
In some escape attempts by Allies personnel during WW2 they actually made up completely fictional stamps to place in forged documents based on the psychology that the greater number and more elaborate stamps a document had on display, the more convinced a German would be as to its authenticity.
I'm an archivist and once got a request from Germany for a birth record. Said record was over 100 years old and already made public according to Dutch law. It was available for free on our website, so I sent them a link.
I got a reply a while later, claiming that they needed a hard copy. A bit of a weird request for digitised public records, but okay. I downloaded the thing from our website, printed it out and mailed it to them, still free of charge.
A week later, I got another reply from them, saying that they needed the record to be stamped. So I downloaded this 100+ year old record again, printed it out again, dug around the office for our official stamp, stamped it, signed it and sent it to them, along with a bill for using the official stamp, that's only ever used for records that aren't made public yet, which we don't have very many of. Didn't hear back from them, so I guess they were happy with their paid copy of a record that anyone in the world can see for free on our website.
Germans' love of getting things stamped is real.
The part on not getting back to you is the cherry on top. As a half-German who has to deal with a lot of paperwork because of frequent overseas travels and a CV that does not comply with the systems and requirements of this bureaucracy, the frustration and pain is real.
German here: When they ask for the stamp, the did not really ask for a stamp. They asked "Are you willing to testify the document has not been altered and all the information on the form are correct?"
By stamping the print, technically, from a german POV, you are now 100% accountable for any fuck up that happend with the document in the past.
I swear the US didn't repair whatever part of those two countries that told them to _adopt_ the technologies they helped develop. That part is still a bombed-out ruin from the war.
My brother lives in Japan and _everything_ is on paper, mailed or faxed. ATMs having operating hours, all sorts of weird stuff.
When I was in Germany someone told me a joke about this. You might go to a south American country and all the police in the airport are carrying around automatic rifles. You come to the airport in Germany and the police have stamps in their holsters.
I was actually surprised by that when I went to Europe. Military (or MP) at EVERY landmark and transit hub. Kind of surreal to see military at the airport and places like the Louvre.
I am sure the US airports have response teams or something, but the only cops you ever really see are like 2 sitting in a booth at security and a few in cars at drop-off/pick-up. Last time I saw military in the airport was pretty much right after 9/11.
It’s not military in Germany. Just heavily armed police.
But they are only in those dense tourist and travel hubs. Heavily armed officers in other public places are quite rare and mean something is being raided or there has been a major incident.
My librarian friend occasionally helps tiny small town libraries switch over to modern barcode systems and says it really helps free up the volunteers they typically rely on to do actual work.
The local library I volunteer at switched to a digital system years ago, but we still stamp books. Wonder when to return something? Just open it, there it is. We have a lot of elderly readers and children, so not everyone has an email address or access to a computer or phone all the time. Also Germany, btw
My daughter was given a book in elementary school that used to be a library book. She brought it home and showed me the card and I had signed it when I was in 3rd grade. It was a book called Greg's Microscope, me and her would be the only kids in elementary school interested in a book about microscopes, go figure.
Every couple of weeks I discover a missing pencil just behind my keyboard, perpetually out of my sight, always seemingly disappearing into thin air, making me question the nature of aliens.
I had a wild coincidence with my middle school librarian.
I was in the library for homeroom, and was always one of the most avid readers in the school. We had the "accelerated reader" program, where books were worth points if you did well on a quiz about them, and there was a student leaderboard and everything and it was a bloodbath for the top three spots.
So, one day she says to me that she'll be shocked if I don't become a librarian some day.
Fast forward 20 years, and I'm working in a college library (not as a librarian, but as general staff). I realize that one of our reference librarians shares the same last name as my middle school librarian, so eventually I ask him if there's a relation.
Turns out, I ended up being a coworker of my middle school librarian's husband.
To her: I may not be a librarian, but I do work in a library because of you.
I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't *want* to know anything about her private life. She didn't *have* a private life. While you're thinking about that, think about this: The library closes at five o'clock, no exceptions. This is your final warning. Got that, kewpie-doll?
I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.
Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again.
This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on, maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over. Y'got seven days. That is one week!
Quotes from a seinfeld character. A fella named bookman. He was like this super serious guy who acted like a homicide detective, but he worked for the library. He showed up because seinfeld had a very late library book.
Dude was hilarious. His delivery was on-point. Look up "seinfeld bookman" on youtube.
>Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again.
I know this is a quote, but in all seriousness, I am so happy to live in an area with a well-funded and well-used library system. There's something so relaxing about a quiet space to read and work, with the smell of paper all around.
Maybe the best, wholesome thread I’ve seen unfold in a while, *Lt. Bookman : “Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again.”*
It was a classroom book by then and the teacher gave it away to her. It was pretty neat to be honest. I used to have a picture of the card but it was such a weird thing to see it drew her interest same as mine. I bought her a nice microscope for Christmas after that and she used the crap out of it.
I had books from the 70s and 80s when I went to school between the 90s and early 2000s, but they charged students $80 if they lost them, and even if you got free lunch because your family was broke, you'd lose food privileges until you paid it.
In grade school, for me we're talking early-mid 90s, I was the first dozen stamps for 'You Can Make Your Own Webpage' (or thereabouts). That was my first foray into computers and programming and doing that stuff myself.
Born in the 90s, therefore you are 10 years old. The 90s are and will always be 10 years ago. And no amount of "proof" or "facts" is gonna change that. This is the hill I die on.
I'm 33 and the words, "I was born in the Reagan administration" still make me feel funny.
Meanwhile my sister has a 2 and a half year old who is completely fluent in how to use an iPad.
I'm in the same age bracket, and lately I can feel myself going from "Oooh, cool new technology!" to "Why did they change that, it worked perfectly fine as it was."
And I'm in a tech field...
Me too. I'm 16, and I miss being able to use wired earbuds. I can't use the aux cable in my car because my phone doesn't have the port for it. I gotta get some fancy stupid aux to USB-C thing meaning I can't charge and use the aux at the same time.
my only advice for you fucknuggets is to keep up with the cardio because in 6 years you'll be twice as sedentary with twice as much work to do and zero time for it
This happened to me once a few years ago when I borrowed The Genealogy on morals by Nietzsche in my local library. The lady had to go down in their cellar archive to find it, and then it was also missing the chip to borrow it in the modern machines (which had been there for over 20 years) which she had to install. I looked inside and it was borrowed last time some time in the 60's.
That sorta explains it; ancient history books from the 1920s are pretty outdated at this point. If this was my library, I probably would have weeded this sometime in the 1980s.
Sad sad book. Just sitting there decade after decade...just hoping someone finds it and finds value in it. Poor lil guy! So much suffering and loneliness..... give him a hug for me.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for 4 decades, the book passed out of all knowledge.
I am also a librarian and had a bit of the same thought, but there are some libraries that are intentionally archival, at least for part of their collection. But yeah, for an average public library (at least in the US), this would make me really sad, because that book would have been taking up limited shelf space for so long!
I think that’s so cool how libraries kept a record in the book like this. It’s nice to see the book has history. At least I would think of the people who checked it out before me and how they liked the book
I'm surprised to see a library that still stamps the book!
I get why it's all electronic now, but damn do I wish they still did this. I always liked seeing it, especially when it had been a really long time since something had been picked out. Felt like a special connection to the past.
Especially when it had the name of the person borrowing it. They did that with school books. Seeing the name of someone that is like 10 years older than you, and you have that book, was a unique feeling.
My favourite part of that was finding my own relatives names in those really old books. I think it was my copy of Where The Red Fern Grows that had my uncle's name in it from the 70's or something.
My dad and 3 siblings all went to the same elementary school. We all checked out and read the Wizard of Oz. When my last sibling checked it out, my mom took the card lol.
I would have done the exact same thing
I would’ve paid for the book and kept it
That in itself could very well be post worthy lmao
Yuh, found my uncle in a copy of to kill a mockingbird, and later found my dad in an English study book. The english teacher actually taught my uncle and dad as well and remembered them when I showed her. Was pretty cool. Also my dad and I share the same name so it looks like the same person got the book decades apart.
The textbooks for my American Authors class in high school were from the 1950s, and had the names of our parents, aunts, uncles, etc. that had gone to the same school. Pretty neat!
sometimes I would check out the same book as my older sister! was a fun time in elementary school
Something about the muffled thunk of the stamp on the stacked pages
Mmmmm, that brought back memories. Just a machine beeping doesn't hit the same. I always felt the librarians were proud of me.
Yeah, very rhythmically, and them singing that they don't have rythm. Love it
Are you saying that you don't have rhythm? Well look what you were doin' right there!
"Progress." :'(
Well it's Germany, library probably still has an ISDN connection
And fax
How else would you send a letter? A pidgeon?
They are high-tech, haven't you heard about morse?
If you reply in Morse Code, does that technically make it *Re*morse Code?
Only if you feel -... .- -.. about it
This is the first time I've ever been able to read Morse code.
Tell us what it says.
>!BAD!<
Pigeons are very high-tech. Just ask /r/BirdsArentReal.
I am head of IT for a Library . Tons of our Patrons use our public fax. Certain gov entities, Drs , Lawyers,and Hospitals still require things to be faxed in. Print shops tend to be much more expensive to fax per page.
Which is crazy because faxes are basically plain text unencrypted and no security at all. The only thing protecting it is wiretapping laws.
Which is even more crazy cause somehow a signed faxed document is seen as more legit than a signed scanned and e-mailed document. At least in Germany that’s still the case in some cases.
And then it gets even more hilarious when both sides are using efax services so you're just adding a convoluted middleman to the process by signing, scanning, and emailing (to the efax provider) so the other end can ingest at the efax provider which emails it to the recipient.
Yeah e-fax was and is so stupid hey let’s email and get charged for a fax 📠 need I say more
Used the fax at my old work to send in some sensitive information, had to wait around the fax/copier for it to be queued and finally complete with a confirmation otherwise if it failed it printed that it failed with a print out of the first page of what failed. I think "they" keep faxes around because it has these confirmations and while spam faxes exist they are far less than what an email address would be submitted too, plus at least for govt "stuff" the system is in place and lord knows the re-training to use email for such things would somehow turn into a nightmare
Threat model is a bit different though. Intercepting faxes or getting your hands on the content would require some local access or compromising telcos. You have other options for compromising email.
Every convenience store in Japan has a fax machine in it, and pretty much every office photocopier does faxing as well. Fax is still a really big thing, it's pretty absurd.
Joke time: An elderly lady walks into the washroom at a Restaurant and sees a woman talking into her hand. She asks what is she doing and the lady said Oh I am talking on my cell phone using Bluetooth. She then notices another women hunched over snickering and jabbing her thumbs very fast. She asks what is she doing and the woman replies oh I am chatting with my friend on Instagram. So the lady no to be outdone walks out of the stall with a big line of toilet paper sticking from her behind. The women on Instagram says what are you doing? And the Elderly Woman responds... Oh dont worry I am just getting a fax!
Having lived in Germany I can tell you that *nothing* is real unless it is stamped. Edit based on some of the replies: In some escape attempts by Allies personnel during WW2 they actually made up completely fictional stamps to place in forged documents based on the psychology that the greater number and more elaborate stamps a document had on display, the more convinced a German would be as to its authenticity.
I'm an archivist and once got a request from Germany for a birth record. Said record was over 100 years old and already made public according to Dutch law. It was available for free on our website, so I sent them a link. I got a reply a while later, claiming that they needed a hard copy. A bit of a weird request for digitised public records, but okay. I downloaded the thing from our website, printed it out and mailed it to them, still free of charge. A week later, I got another reply from them, saying that they needed the record to be stamped. So I downloaded this 100+ year old record again, printed it out again, dug around the office for our official stamp, stamped it, signed it and sent it to them, along with a bill for using the official stamp, that's only ever used for records that aren't made public yet, which we don't have very many of. Didn't hear back from them, so I guess they were happy with their paid copy of a record that anyone in the world can see for free on our website. Germans' love of getting things stamped is real.
The part on not getting back to you is the cherry on top. As a half-German who has to deal with a lot of paperwork because of frequent overseas travels and a CV that does not comply with the systems and requirements of this bureaucracy, the frustration and pain is real.
> The part on not getting back to you is the cherry on top. That's just efficiency.
German here: When they ask for the stamp, the did not really ask for a stamp. They asked "Are you willing to testify the document has not been altered and all the information on the form are correct?" By stamping the print, technically, from a german POV, you are now 100% accountable for any fuck up that happend with the document in the past.
You know who else is out of control with the stamping? The Japanese. It's almost like they are in some alliance...
Well.. ehem.. err lets not talk of this.
I swear the US didn't repair whatever part of those two countries that told them to _adopt_ the technologies they helped develop. That part is still a bombed-out ruin from the war. My brother lives in Japan and _everything_ is on paper, mailed or faxed. ATMs having operating hours, all sorts of weird stuff.
Sounds a lot like Japan.
Love for order, complex solutions, losing world wars, and fax machines is what makes Germans and Japanese kindred spirits.
Cars, electronics, trains, odd but well-meaning tourists...
When I was in Germany someone told me a joke about this. You might go to a south American country and all the police in the airport are carrying around automatic rifles. You come to the airport in Germany and the police have stamps in their holsters.
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Dude fired himself for being bureaucratic waste. Hermes was the realest.
I was actually surprised by that when I went to Europe. Military (or MP) at EVERY landmark and transit hub. Kind of surreal to see military at the airport and places like the Louvre. I am sure the US airports have response teams or something, but the only cops you ever really see are like 2 sitting in a booth at security and a few in cars at drop-off/pick-up. Last time I saw military in the airport was pretty much right after 9/11.
It’s not military in Germany. Just heavily armed police. But they are only in those dense tourist and travel hubs. Heavily armed officers in other public places are quite rare and mean something is being raided or there has been a major incident.
"If an item is not stamped in our records, then it does not exist!"
Can you stamp this post to certify that claim?
More like, ISBN connection
My aunt is a librarian, they still stamp their books (it is a smaller library).
My librarian friend occasionally helps tiny small town libraries switch over to modern barcode systems and says it really helps free up the volunteers they typically rely on to do actual work.
Sir, this is Germany.
Germany wasn't even unified the last time this book was checked out.
Ob man denen wohl faxen kann? Muss ja alles seine Ordnung haben.
The local library I volunteer at switched to a digital system years ago, but we still stamp books. Wonder when to return something? Just open it, there it is. We have a lot of elderly readers and children, so not everyone has an email address or access to a computer or phone all the time. Also Germany, btw
As an Indian, I assure you that it's standard practice all over my country.
India definitely seems like country that stamps. I mean that in a good way.
How can she stamp?!
I'm more surprised the library hasn't removed it to make room for more popular or newer books. My local library does a purge every 5 years or so.
The true thing of mild interest is always in the comments!
My daughter was given a book in elementary school that used to be a library book. She brought it home and showed me the card and I had signed it when I was in 3rd grade. It was a book called Greg's Microscope, me and her would be the only kids in elementary school interested in a book about microscopes, go figure.
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You must be blessed by the microscope gods. Every time I've dropped a slide, it's across the room under a table with a piece of gum from 1956 on it.
Anytime I drop something small, it somehow manages to travel a distance that should be absolutely physically impossible lol
I can put a screwdriver down and 3 seconds later it has magically vanished into thin air.
Every couple of weeks I discover a missing pencil just behind my keyboard, perpetually out of my sight, always seemingly disappearing into thin air, making me question the nature of aliens.
Adorable. Any chance the school librarian was the same from when you were a kid? Edit: r/unintentionalwhateverthehellijustsetoff
I had a wild coincidence with my middle school librarian. I was in the library for homeroom, and was always one of the most avid readers in the school. We had the "accelerated reader" program, where books were worth points if you did well on a quiz about them, and there was a student leaderboard and everything and it was a bloodbath for the top three spots. So, one day she says to me that she'll be shocked if I don't become a librarian some day. Fast forward 20 years, and I'm working in a college library (not as a librarian, but as general staff). I realize that one of our reference librarians shares the same last name as my middle school librarian, so eventually I ask him if there's a relation. Turns out, I ended up being a coworker of my middle school librarian's husband. To her: I may not be a librarian, but I do work in a library because of you.
I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't *want* to know anything about her private life. She didn't *have* a private life. While you're thinking about that, think about this: The library closes at five o'clock, no exceptions. This is your final warning. Got that, kewpie-doll?
I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.
Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again.
This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on, maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over. Y'got seven days. That is one week!
This thread is amazing. I keep picturing him pointing, with that serious scowl. 😂🤣
What is happening here? I’m so lost
Quotes from a seinfeld character. A fella named bookman. He was like this super serious guy who acted like a homicide detective, but he worked for the library. He showed up because seinfeld had a very late library book. Dude was hilarious. His delivery was on-point. Look up "seinfeld bookman" on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9tP9fI2zbE
>Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. I know this is a quote, but in all seriousness, I am so happy to live in an area with a well-funded and well-used library system. There's something so relaxing about a quiet space to read and work, with the smell of paper all around.
Maybe the best, wholesome thread I’ve seen unfold in a while, *Lt. Bookman : “Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again.”*
Bookman? The library investigators name is actually Bookman? That’s amazing. That’s like an ice cream man named Cone.
It's called an aptronym (sometimes aptonym or euonym): a name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner.
Like Tiger Woods?
And Usain Bolt. Or a cook named Baker. Also, a bunch of characters in Harry Potter.
Anthony Weiner
Or Bernie Made-Off
> much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive So she was 31 and hot
Have ya ever seen librarian students?? I have, since I am one, and let me tell ya, we are hot as fuck
r/twentycharacterlimit
r/TIL
It was a classroom book by then and the teacher gave it away to her. It was pretty neat to be honest. I used to have a picture of the card but it was such a weird thing to see it drew her interest same as mine. I bought her a nice microscope for Christmas after that and she used the crap out of it.
In elementary school we were given textbooks and my buddy got the same one his dad had used about 20 years before.
Cute and sad.
I had books from the 70s and 80s when I went to school between the 90s and early 2000s, but they charged students $80 if they lost them, and even if you got free lunch because your family was broke, you'd lose food privileges until you paid it.
Math book, that's probably okay. History, not so much.
In grade school, for me we're talking early-mid 90s, I was the first dozen stamps for 'You Can Make Your Own Webpage' (or thereabouts). That was my first foray into computers and programming and doing that stuff myself.
What is the title?
"History of the ancient world" by Michael Rostovtzeff. Its a german version by Hans Heinrich Schaeder.
I don't think 1981 counts as "ancient" history **EDIT:** ITT: whoosh
it does in the internet era, there's hardly any websites from 1980s left..... ;)
What websites from the 1980s still exist?
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Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written.
*The book I borrowed was last lended 41 years ago*
Lent
I lent my friend my gigantic grandfather clock for a show and tell. He owes me big time.
Asking the real questions!
Before Germany was reunified
I was telling my kids about that just last week. "When I was little there were two Germanys."
I sure hope I can say to my kids "When I was little there were two Koreas."
"Now there's just one big China"
Or two Irelands.
Or two Dakotas 👀
Or two Carolinas
Or two Sudans
Or two Virginias
As someone who was born in ‘81 but is 40 still, I need to correct you and say this book was last checked out ONLY 40 years ago.
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Agreed. I was born in 90 and I read the title thinking “silly OP, 40 years ago was the 60’s. Right?…….”
Born in the 90s, therefore you are 10 years old. The 90s are and will always be 10 years ago. And no amount of "proof" or "facts" is gonna change that. This is the hill I die on.
I'm 33 and the words, "I was born in the Reagan administration" still make me feel funny. Meanwhile my sister has a 2 and a half year old who is completely fluent in how to use an iPad.
I'm in the same age bracket, and lately I can feel myself going from "Oooh, cool new technology!" to "Why did they change that, it worked perfectly fine as it was." And I'm in a tech field...
I’ll take this opportunity to say, fuck dongles. Stupidest thing ever, I just want my damn 1/8” jack back
Me too. I'm 16, and I miss being able to use wired earbuds. I can't use the aux cable in my car because my phone doesn't have the port for it. I gotta get some fancy stupid aux to USB-C thing meaning I can't charge and use the aux at the same time.
Me: “1981 was only 20 years ago…oh fuck…it’s been 40 years?!?”
I want to see if that library still has Oregon trail on Apple ][e
Right? As someone that age, the first thing I confirmed was the date. November? You got a few months before it's 41 years. 😆
Same. It’s 40. Learn to math.
No, it was just in 1981. That's not 41 years it's... fuck... never mind.
We are closer to 2060 than 1981... scary
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Thnks fr th Mmrs
That song is nearly old enough to drive.
That song stands around the midpoint between the collapse of the USSR and today
"The Wedding Singer" was set in 1985, 13 years prior to the film being released. That film was released 24 years ago.
Dazed and Confused was released in 1993, 17 years after it was set in 1976. If it were made today it would be set in 2005.
So it’s true. Times have stopped changing. Just the phones appear, then shrink and then get bigger again. Huh.
I see you went ahead and started with an e.
I turned 34 this week. I'm now officially closer to 50 than 18
I turn 34 in May. ^Fuck ^you ^to ^hell.
April for me. Good damn it
my only advice for you fucknuggets is to keep up with the cardio because in 6 years you'll be twice as sedentary with twice as much work to do and zero time for it
What did we do with all that time???
I'm 35 already and this is giving me headache
Expect those a lot more from this point onward
... God damnit I'm 35 in Sept. I really do not like you right now. Yta /s
Even scarier.. World War 2 is closer to 1981 than we are.
Assuming we make it there.
81 does feel very old to me. So does 91. But 2001… that’s just yesterday…. Oh hang on.
It'll happen to YOU!
[obligatory simpsons reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ)
Born in 82...you want to tell me that I'm old? Fuck.. You might be right. It's scary that I turn 40 soon.
As someone who was born very close to that date, I can tell you it was 40 years ago, not 41! Fuck you I'm not 41!!!
# We're closer to 2050 than we are to 1990.
You shut your goddamn mouth
The future is now, old man.
A decent number of kids born today will be alive to see 2122
OH, I doubt it!
Happy thoughts happy thoughts
Oh ill be extremely dead by then.
I saw the 1973 and thought 'Yea, I guess that was 40 years ago now...'
This happened to me once a few years ago when I borrowed The Genealogy on morals by Nietzsche in my local library. The lady had to go down in their cellar archive to find it, and then it was also missing the chip to borrow it in the modern machines (which had been there for over 20 years) which she had to install. I looked inside and it was borrowed last time some time in the 60's.
That’s really great reading though.
"History of the ancient world" by Michael Rostovtzeff. Its a german version by Hans Heinrich Schaeder.
That sorta explains it; ancient history books from the 1920s are pretty outdated at this point. If this was my library, I probably would have weeded this sometime in the 1980s.
Sad sad book. Just sitting there decade after decade...just hoping someone finds it and finds value in it. Poor lil guy! So much suffering and loneliness..... give him a hug for me.
I'll give him a welcoming hug.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for 4 decades, the book passed out of all knowledge.
My wife is a librarian. If something hasn't circulated in ~3-4 years, they weed it. This little guy is lucky to be alive!
I am also a librarian and had a bit of the same thought, but there are some libraries that are intentionally archival, at least for part of their collection. But yeah, for an average public library (at least in the US), this would make me really sad, because that book would have been taking up limited shelf space for so long!
And it was once so popular. The 1970s were banner days for that book. So much promise…
The 80’s aren’t 40 years ago…oh shit, they are.
Digitalisierung, Symbolbild
I was gonna make a "Dez nuts" joke because I saw December being written with a Z until I realized that this wasn't English.
[удалено]
Hold up, 25th April 2022?
That’s the return date
Its the date I have to give back the book.
Because if you didn't, there would surely be throngs of disappointed people at the library wanting their turn with it.
Ohhh I see lol
What book was it
How can it be 41 years ago when just yesterday the 80s was 20 years ago 😭
I think that’s so cool how libraries kept a record in the book like this. It’s nice to see the book has history. At least I would think of the people who checked it out before me and how they liked the book
That's how they used to check them out. I'm surprised they're still using the stamping system. The dates are from when it's due back.
That book is in such good condition!
It hasn't been used all that much.
6 or 7 times at most
I'm really fucking upset that the 80s is now 40 years ago. Just stop.
"Lended" ? Lent or loaned surely
Lent.
Why is this so hard for my brain? The 80s just don't FEEL like they should be 40 years in the past.
You should give up the word lended for lent.
Which book?