Things you don't understand, because you are old.

2. myspace

I actually made this thread cause I found a hamburger cell phone charm while googling "cute hamburger" in order to bump the "Have You Ever Seen A Cuter Burger?" thread.

Which I would say is something an older person mightn't understand, but I can't really picture people my own age understanding it, either, and can't really blame them.

3. PSP hacking

Not to be Tuomas, but I used to not understand de.li.cio.us.

Oh!

4. RSS feeds

(less of an age thing and more of a computer illiterate one)

2a. Facebook

5. Generation Y

Pokeman

7. Teal

PP's answer is so cuet!

8. I heard a lot of teenagers using the phrase "go totally boaty"

9. instant messaging

God, how the fuck old are y'all?

i dont believe any of you guys dont understand these things

although for a while when they first hit my sister was convinced that pokemon were just something my brother in law made up to mess w/her

he was all there are cards and video games and the kids they pit their pokemon against each other in battles and she like nuh uh not this time guy

10. Fat dudes in emo bands.

for the longest time i thought pokemon was actually some superhero named "PokeMan"

i understand IMing as a concept (duh) but i don't get why anyone would want to do it

non stop double bass

15. CaptainLorax

16. $2 coins

I really don't understand any of mine.

I don't know what a cell phone charm is, what it does (I would guess it looks cute, but I'm not sure), or where it goes. And I don't care.

This Charming Cellphone?

id go out 2nite but i hvnt gt a fone credit to txt

I know someone with a wee katamari damacy guy hanging off his phone, Is that what a cell phone charm is?

I guess. I would ask where it attaches, but I am relishing the mystery a little too much.

i have the katamari prince cellphone charm. he lights up when the phone rings. also when hes near a computer or pretty much anything electronic. if you look close at your phone youll see a little metal bar. you string charm through there. im sure im way older than you guys. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT YOU/ME?

I had a Hello Kitty charm many years ago. But she broke when I was reaching into an ice cream cooler. I don't think she lit up though. But this was about 7 years ago. Technology marches on.

That thing sounds cool, sunny. But I do not see a metal bar.

i understand IMing as a concept (duh) but i don't get why anyone would want to do it

-- jergïns, Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:09 PM (Yesterday)

that goes double for myspace and facebook

podcasts

apparently

for the longest time i thought pokemon was actually some superhero named "PokeMan"

That is so cute, Heave!

i am very metal (7:53:07 PM): i dont understand
roxymuzak (7:53:46 PM): what
roxymuzak (7:53:50 PM): well i dont either
roxymuzak (7:53:54 PM): if ilx is what you mean
i am very metal (7:54:14 PM): yah
i am very metal (7:54:20 PM): why are people acting like its normal
i am very metal (7:54:22 PM): on the sandbox
i am very metal (7:54:24 PM): explain
i am very metal (7:54:25 PM): help
i am very metal (7:54:28 PM): halp ME
roxymuzak (7:54:21 PM): i dont know
roxymuzak (7:54:24 PM): i dont understand it at all
i am very metal (7:55:09 PM): wtf
i am very metal (7:55:12 PM): i dont get it
i am very metal (7:55:19 PM): i dont understand whats happening
roxymuzak (7:55:09 PM): i dont eithyer!!!!!!!!!
roxymuzak (7:55:10 PM): shit
i am very metal (7:55:26 PM): me neither!
roxymuzak (7:55:21 PM): you know what i just dont understand it
i am very metal (7:55:41 PM): whats that
roxymuzak (7:58:54 PM): what
roxymuzak (7:58:56 PM): ILX
roxymuzak (7:58:57 PM): i dont get it
i am very metal (7:59:16 PM): i know whats going on ?
i am very metal (7:59:21 PM): is it there?
i am very metal (7:59:24 PM): is it broken?
i am very metal (7:59:28 PM): why is it on the sandbox?
i am very metal (7:59:31 PM): isnt it monday?
i am very metal (7:59:34 PM): i think its monday
roxymuzak (7:59:23 PM): i dont fucking know
roxymuzak (7:59:25 PM): i dont get it at all
roxymuzak (7:59:31 PM): so many questions
i am very metal (7:59:48 PM): i do believe that things are going haywire
roxymuzak (7:59:43 PM): yes i dont understand it
i am very metal (8:00:01 PM): what i dont get
i am very metal (8:00:02 PM): is
i am very metal (8:00:07 PM): why everything is so cuckoo
roxymuzak (8:00:26 PM): i dont know
roxymuzak (8:00:29 PM): i dont understand it

^^^^
that conversation

there's a new IP address and stet still has to link to original URL to it

*link the original

hi dere, i am old

i'm OLD (Mid twenties)

i don't understand why any adult would celebrate their birthday

i dont understand why any adule

adular: To flatter

things i do not understant because i don't speak Portuguese

people having their Sims (?) act out things from pop culture

omg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPjG7inTsJg

there is no excuse for the sim inside the sims to not be playing the sims

sims

limitless recursions

ringtones

why roxymuzak doesn't do these threads on ILE

everything i start on ile that isn't about the parthenon ends up like the "do men like to be called cute" fiasco

SPRING BREAK!

that is something i do not understand because i am old

how the fuck old ARE you!

lol, my only friends on spring break now are professors (srsly).

Cellphone charms go good on RSA VPN keyfob.

text messaging as a method of communication that usurps actual use of the phone

texting IS use of the phone, hoos!

also, i understand none of this:

Cellphone charms go good on RSA VPN keyfob.

saying 'like' instead of 'um'
drinking american culture like it's water and they are in the desert
youtube

skinny jeans
hannah montana
the need to wear headphones absolutely everywhere
a world without strom thurmond

also, i understand none of this:

http://www.amatteroffax.com/images/inventoryimages/1143785.JPG

Now imagine that with cute little hearts dangling from the loop.

RSA VPN keyfob.

i didnt get this either but when i saw the pic i was ooooh i use one of those every day. dum

what does it DO

its for remotely accessing a network. the numbers on it change every 20 secs or so. you use the number it is showing at the time as part of your password. little bars tell you how close the number is to changing. if you dont type fast enough you got to wait for the next number which always seems like an eternal 10 secs.

fackshnog

RSA keys are the equivalent of writing your password on a post-it note and sticking it to your wall.

Autumn Almanac, computer security analyst guy supremo.

lolol

the numbers change every minute. you can see how close you are to turnover by the bars stacked on the left of the readout. each bar represents 10 seconds.

also I have three of them. one is for logging in to do my job. one is for logging into to see if other people are doing their job. one is for logging in to let my employer know how much to bill the government for me doing my job.

I got sick of checking the serial #s on the backside of each one to remind myself which one to use for which logon so I took a SANFORD KING SIZE and inscribed symbols on the front to represent different purposes. I don't know why they can't just make them in a few colors besides gray so people like me don't have to do that.

tell us more!

rsa keys are a pain in the hole but they are effective

Mine's black and comes in a stylish leather jacket.

which is black.

oh yeah and like everybody in my office has three of them too. think how many numbers that is, changing every minute! wow!!!

autumn almanac has the old model!!! point and laff!!!

It's recycled. They took it off some dead bloke or something and made me use it.

Upon exiting the limbo, THX attempts to find LUH and learns that her identity has been reassigned to a fetus in a growth chamber. This indicates that she has been considered "incurable" and killed.

They didn't need an RSA key to get out of there. Imagine that film if they stood at the exit fumbling with the numbers. 'It's 2387... NO!! it's 74568376. Got that? I said, 745... WAIT, try again, it's 12831922. What was the first number? 1. No, 1 as in OH FUCK IT'S CHANGED AGAIN'

thats me every time i sign on

during my lifetime a transition has happened between just regular "slap me five" (hands low) to "high five." I'm still pretty uncomfortable doing high fives, even with non-jocks. I can barely high-five my kid when he does something good in soccer.

There's too much though, with all the different high-fives and 8,000 different types of handshakes. You can never know which one they're going to do and it always fails miserably.

* Facebook.
* Myspace.
* Internet sex.
* Internet slang.
* Any cell phone function besides using it for talking.
* Current popularity of manga and Japanese rock among teenage girls.
* Computer games in 3D.
* Computer games with complex storylines.

* "Emo" (what does this even mean?).
* Blogging.

tuomas ... posting on things you don't understand thread ... struggling ... to keep a grasp on my sanity ... failing ... urinating on self

What's to get about blogging? You put writing on a website, nobody reads it, you give up.

In all sincerity, I don't see what the big deal is about RSS feeds.

RSS sucks

That weird ironed pointy hitler/emo fringe thing. Even tho there are some saddoes my age (26) who have it.

RSS feeds are like having a newspaper delivered, except the paperboy isn't an arsehole.

even the worst newspapers usually have some information besides the headlines

Why have the paper delivered when I'm sitting next to the printing press?

BECAUSE YOU CAN GET PODCASTS AS WELL. THEY TOO ARE LIKE PAPERS BUT THEY TALK AND ARE NOT DELIVERED BY ARSEHOLE PAPERBOYS.

things i don't understand, because i am young: paperboys

they're arseholes

"watch yer back, aussie"

http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/08/newsies.jpg

even the worst newspapers usually have some information besides the headlines

-- El Tomboto, Thursday, March 6, 2008 6:14 PM

I hate those feeds. I don't read those feeds. I read the good feeds, the ones with the full story, and text, and embedded media. Ok, I look at the pictures.

twitter

http://www.amatteroffax.com/images/inventoryimages/1143785.JPG

a cto of a bank told me the best way to hack into his system and steal all the money would be to find one of his employees working at home and bring a gun or whatever

also these http://www.amatteroffax.com/images/inventoryimages/1143785.JPG always remind me of http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/ptech/02/05/tamagotchi.pets.ap/story.tamagotchi.ap.jpg

The old gun-and-telecommuter trick..

lol!!!!
I was saying back in 2004 or whatever (can't be too sure since I deleted my blog HAW!!!) that those stupid things didn't solve shit except the password-reseller market because a round trip on the internet from here to the ukraine takes hella less than 60 seconds and any phisherman worth half his salt could easily script a man in the middle system to steal yr secret number and go chop yo dolla anyhoo

saying that kind of shit back in 2004 is why I go chop yo tax dolla, frankly. if I was smart enough to say that shit only a couple of years earlier like that Bruce Schneier I would be choppin the whole worlds dollas on a daily

but remember kids, crime doesn't pay

What does the above mean? Answers on a postcard

I was only kidding!

"things you don't understand because you are young" might be a nice thread

I don't even know what "RSS feeds" are.

Do they only have part of the internet where you are?

tuomas post

royal Scandinavian seafood

I don't know whether I find a taste for Cincy chili or post-The Bends Radiohead more inexplicable.

-- Dr Morbius, Friday, March 7, 2008 4:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

actually like 80 percent of morbs posts could go on this thread

I don't even know what "RSS feeds" are.

-- Tuomas, Friday, March 7, 2008 6:53 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Link

KVG!

all the things on Tuomas's list are like 6 years old

some of them are like 30 years old

i don't really get the t-shirts with the giant words on them (on nu-rave thread)
i guess mostly b/c they are ugly

to my old eyes

To my even older eyes, they look like mid-80's revival.

trad jazz

This obsession that the kids have with the word 'punk'.

They toss it around like some sort of plaything and have diluted it to fuck

ugh, i didnt mean this to turn into "why do ppl like x kind of music/some other matter of taste? omg its so nonsensical"

lol @ this thread isn't going the way i intended for it to go!!!! utterances

i know but this is grim, lib

"why do the kids like the mtv!!"

Lalalala I can't hear you over the jingling of the cell phone charms on my keyfob!

lol

keyfong

Things I don't understand, because I am old stubborn:

*MIDI
*guyliner

guyliner: because it look intersting, nicka!!

If "guyliner" is eyeliner on guys, I used to do that for several years, when I had a more gay look.

But then I shaved my head and grew a beard in 2001, and it didn't really fit anymore.

i mean its not like guyliner is even particularly new at all

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1640/keyfobmx1.png

'enter token code for access to love and donuts'

that is a VERY 1p3 keyfob

i mean its not like guyliner is even particularly new at all

Neither is MIDI, that's why I specified stubborn instead of old.

I don't understand because I am old/sane:

LAZYTOWN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKQcjvgaz2E ??

That song's like five years old, Tuomas!

Or is it Youtube that you don't understand?

No I think he thinks I meant Crazytown not Lazytown.

THIS is Lazytown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBnvpvL47Q&feature=related

That's just a kids' song, what's so odd about it?

tuomas, to be fair, there is an entire part of ilx devoted to quoting you asking about obvious things that you cant get a grip on.

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/cinema-secrets_1942_21489492
why the stretching of the earlobes

that man does not look like an Inca warrior

he sweats like one

Things you don't understand, because you are old they are retarded.

ventilo harassment

boners

lead generation services

people who insist on saying 'utilize' instead of just 'use'

^ FUCKING THIS

people who insist on saying 'utilize' instead of just 'use'

also, the phrase 'skill set'

the imax

people who insist on saying 'utilize' instead of just 'use'

fuckin a.

'usage' for 'use' is often retarded also.

is this something you only notice in ppl younger than you, really?

*sheepishly*

no

High School Musical

some old people "understand" that

This thread

Rickrolling, l337 people, lollerskates, and roflcopters

^ old

(its jokes!)

why people spell arse incorrectly

why people who aren't north american say ass

'usage' for 'use' is often retarded also.

i think i do this. and am old.

Limited-edition sneakers. How is it that grown men now consider these to be high style?

2a. Facebook

-- am0n, Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:17 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

arent u like my age? if you have an objection to that its got nothing to do w/ age am0nymous

Paying $4 for a bottle of the Vitamin Water.

(THE vitamin water! lol)

lol u old

i just found out sparks has alcohol in it.

sparks is gross and it makes your teeth orange for the whole night

http://community.livejournal.com/fbr_secrets/16687.html?thread=1512495#t1512495

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/153/imageuploadimagemy5.png

Mic sex = TMI or classic?

i don't understand postsecret but many my age are totally captivated by it

Mic sex = TMI or classic?

Well, they can hear you coming from a long way off.

i just found out sparks has alcohol in it.

lolololololol

the economics of podcasting

Why people go to a hair salon to have someone wash and dry their hair for them

^that are not physically capable of performing the task

Ugh … people who are physically capable of mf washing their own hair and using a blowdryer if they think that actually improves their hair …

mookieproof at 1:25 6 Sept 24

the economics of podcasting

btw tombot if you're still having trouble with myspace I can explain

the whole first bit of this thread is now things young people don't understand

I saw a fairly interesting thing today about how older people often assume that because they don't understand young people stuff it must work both ways, and that young people must be utterly baffled by technology from anything more than 15-20 years ago.

It leads to those boomerish memes about how "Gen Zers are all confused and angry about basic punctuation because they only understand text speak"; "kids these days don't know the struggle of plugging in a scart lead" (as if that was ever difficult); "I'm old enough to remember the quiet scratching sound heard on a record player before the music starts - beat that!" etc...

podcasts

― roxymuzak, Monday, October 22, 2007 1:38 PM (sixteen years ago)

the economics of podcasting

― mookieproof, Thursday, September 5, 2024 8:25 PM (yesterday)

ilx is slow but we get there eventually

"kids these days don't know the struggle of plugging in a scart lead"

Things you don't understand, because you are American

music fanatics and revisionist history. How retro forms or at least music blending recognisable earlier forms have to be divorced from that legacy. Instead of basking in picking up on the earlier forms. young whippersnappers. or is that brats?

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

but the individual profundity may just be too much for the normal mind to take. & you don't want people to be too mindblown innit

x-post - I do that. I didn't realize it wasn't normal until recently.

on the contrary, in my experience it is totally normal! and yeah maybe it's not right for this thread, I was just going by own world of young people

music fanatics and revisionist history. How retro forms or at least music blending recognisable earlier forms have to be divorced from that legacy. Instead of basking in picking up on the earlier forms. young whippersnappers. or is that brats?

― Stevo, Friday, 6 September 2024 14:42 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Do you mean, like, trying to sneak retro in through the back door? If so, that's an interesting thing. So like with 70s and 80s revisionism in the 90s/00s people very much wore those influences on their sleeves.

Whereas, I dunno, current Gen Z revivalism, while outwardly being in thrall to 90s and Y2K music and fashion, seems cagey about directly celebrating those influences, to the point where I've seen them called the "Christopher Columbus Generation", i.e. they think they discovered everything first, like baggy jeans etc.

There are young producers out there who are making music that is a carbon copy of the kind of bloghouse stuff we heard in 2006, but they're rebadging it as "Indie Sleaze".

I might be wrong, but I'm not seeing the current gen celebrating specific artists in the same way that say LCD Soundsystem might have raved about Gang Of Four in 2003 - it's more about looking to have accessed a specific vibe rather than admitting to listening to their parents' CD collections, I'd say; it's more about aesthetic, because maybe retro-nostalgia is considered uncool?

xp
and tbh in a one-on-one conversation I don't mind it so much. it's more of a problem to me when it's a group chat that's important enough that I can't turn notifications off

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

tbh I labour over my texts to a likely abnormal extent lol

x-post - I do that. I didn't realize it wasn't normal until recently.

Things other older people don’t understand… iMessage when you don’t have an iPhone AND an apple computer… boomer dudes I work for have both and will basically send me long detailed emails via text … they don’t grasp that I can’t reply on my PC …

I don't like it when my parents try to ring me over Whatsapp as opposed to just normal phone. They're the only people I know who do it. I think it comes from the days when it cost money to call people but Whatsapp over wifi was free or something

lord how I hate email-by-text, disgustingly savage behavior

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

― rob

people who spend an hour working on a response to a discord DM so for an hour you see a message saying "(username) is typing..." :)

what "skibidi toilet" is supposed to mean

lord how I hate email-by-text, disgustingly savage behavior

― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve)

i on the other hand welcome anything that allows me to avoid having to check my email

unless it's at work and people send me a Teams notif instead of an email

sending someone a series of sentences, each in an individual text message, instead of one longer text

Surely this has always been the norm for texting?

I've had difficulty trying to educate some older folks regarding when to text vs. when to email, especially in the smartphone era when the distinction of "one goes to my phone, the other goes to my computer" is lost now that I can get both in both places. Also, some people new to email (mostly years ago) would write in overly formal style with business-letter headings, salutations, and sign-offs.

Surely this has always been the norm for texting?

not when you had to pay £0.06 per text!

it's more about looking to have accessed a specific vibe rather than admitting to listening to their parents' CD collections, I'd say; it's more about aesthetic, because maybe retro-nostalgia is considered uncool?

This would probably be a good topic for another thread, but yeah I wonder if it's more about a lack of information/context about the sources? Just a bunch of youtube & spotify playlists and recommendations, so it gets smeared into the most surface-level commonalities. Although I do know at least one kid who will spend the day going on wiki dives about old bands he gets into, which warms my heart.

The Stoner Rock orthodoxy that has it appearing fully formed in California in 1990 with no prior use of the name. & is dismissive of the bands the music is a blend of.
I thought the formative influences had always been recognised and celebrated. Not dismissed cos too old.
But noticed a bunch of comments that dismiss its roots and think any reference to them makes one a boomer.
Hoping that's just a blinkered few. But am aware of comments from Aquarius Records over last couple of decades that would suggest it was a longer term myopia.

Btw I would also appreciate a good breakdown about podcast economics, specifically how much those ads pay for a small to mid level podcast. Essentially, is it real money or are podcasts still a loss leader to get exposure, or to get a dedicated enough audience to sign up for a Patreon?

There was a podcast called Podcast Graveyard which interviewed the creators of failed podcasts about the economics of all this and much of the intangibles: marketing, booking guests, etc. I can't quite recommend it, because Podcast Graveyard itself became a failed podcast and completely missed the opportunity to interview itself about its crash.

those clips on instagram etc where a girl says something maybe vaguely mildly amusing but it's not her own voice! it's a man's voice! HAHA HA HAHAHA HAHAHA OH MY ACHING SIDES,right?