Doin’ It Before It Was Cool
Musings, Online April 14th, 2007The following thought occurred to me at around 3:30am this morning, a time when everything is 50x more cooler and more significant sounding than it actually is.
I was just thinking, in about five years I would start being able to say things like “I was blogging BEFORE you were born!” (I started blogging in around 2001, and the youngest bloggers seem to start from 11 years old and up). Or even, “I was around BEFORE the internet went public” and gradually this fact would become more and more impressive as the years roll on.
Although I imagine the novelty would wear off. Would I one day be those people who continually reminisce about the past? Rather than boastfully saying “when I was your age, Pluto was a planet!” I can imagine myself saying that rather sadly, while morbidly entertaining thoughts about my mortality. But then I would most likely kick myself and tell myself to stop being so emo. Hooray for being born in a generation that proliferated such a concept! :P
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I can see myself saying the Pluto thing too. But the blogging thing is cool too, ‘cept I’m not sure if they’ll have better things to do it with…or you know, just better technologies in general. In which case, they’d [the future people] just be “Yeah…well, that’s sad that you didn’t have [insert name of future blogging tool] to work with.”
The thing is, when you begin saying these things it’s also a sign of age, and becomes uncool. It would be like when my Grandma says, “Oh! I used to have one of those when I was young!” (pointing to my dress).
I can do the same thing about Pluto but not about blogging. We would sound so much like old grandmothers who will nag on about what happened in the past.
But I’m not afraid to be one :P
When I was in school there was no such thing as Windows! I already sound and feel so old when I say something like that - but don’t worry - soon there will be a cure for ageness and you might end up being the last old person = status much?
Don’t make me feel so old T_T
Hrm… you and I started blogging around the same time as well. Even if my 2001 and earlier entries are not up on the archive…simply for the fact that they were greymatter entries and er… I stupidly deleted the .cgi files that were needed to import them over.
But honestly, I dunno about the whole blogging thing… Maybe I will maybe not. Frankly, I don’t even care about the whole Pluto thing!! XD XD But… we’ll see.
To Ramsha: Heh you’ve got a point there. I can imagine people would be like “BLOGGING? Oh that archaic system of communication. We have [um...] SPLOGGING now, get with the times!” in the same way, I suppose I’m fascinated yet mindboggled by the elderly saying that they used to communicate via telegrams.
To Amber: Aww… but fashion luckily always repeats itself! So maybe it’s a compliment if your grandma recognises your dress if the current trend is the 50s. :P
To Chien Yee: Mmm… but still it’s a sobering thought!
To Nan: OMG I totally remember that! I first encountered computers when I was in Year 4 and everything was with DOS and stuff… I remembered playing Prince of Persia on that. :P And “Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” :D
To Bubs: Teehee, sorry. :P But we’re all heading that way!
To Tara: Mmm I lost my earliest entries too. I was with greymatter and I lost my CGI files too! That’s why my current really old archives were actually imported manually to different pages. That was time-consuming. -_-