It's 2017 and I still can't believe that...

[Roadgeekteen]

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[wanderer2575]

Where's my damn flying car?

https://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/wheres-my-damn-flying-car/Content?oid=2502661

[Max Rockatansky]

That its' still not butter....

[inkyatari]

The Cubs won the World Series
A certain person is president
They're still making 007, Star Wars and Alien movies

[Henry]

The Cubs won the World Series
A certain person is president
They're still making 007, Star Wars and Alien movies

Add to that the fact that they're making new versions of old game shows (Match Game, The $100,000 Pyramid, To Tell the Truth), and a team from Cleveland won a championship.

[intelati49]

People who were born in 2000 are going to start their last year of high school.

Seems weird to me

typo

[kphoger]

Game Boys are valuable items.

[ColossalBlocks]

That Interstate 49 is still not completed.

[nexus73]

...cars are ugly appliancemobiles.  We might as well be driving refrigerators and microwave ovens...LOL!  Go watch a movie made from the Fifties to the Eighties.  You can tell what most cars are.  Now go to a WallyMart and see how many cars you can ID.  Even the ones you can most likely are lacking in style.  If I had known the early 21st century was going to be so ugly, I think I would have looked for a cryogenic storage facility a quarter century ago...LOL!

Rick

[vdeane]

If I had known the early 21st century was going to be so ugly, I think I would have looked for a cryogenic storage facility a quarter century ago...

And what if the future is even uglier?

[formulanone]

...cars are ugly appliancemobiles.  We might as well be driving refrigerators and microwave ovens...LOL!  Go watch a movie made from the Fifties to the Eighties.  You can tell what most cars are.  Now go to a WallyMart and see how many cars you can ID.

That's because you grew up admiring them, and then stopped doing so.

To me, I'd fail to identify most cars pre-1980 (save the really sporty stuff and a few select others). But from the 1980s to most modern-day cars, I'd notice. There's a few that would slip through the cracks; Mercedes-Benz has too many cars with forgettable model designations, but it's all an indicator of the times in which a car (or any other type) enthusiast started taking notice from the point they stopped caring.

With the exception of going a car show, how many Buick Elcectras, Lamborghini Urraccos, or Toyota 2000GTs am I going to encounter on the roads or parking lots in 2017? That's a number very close to none.

Also, your statements would have a lot more credibility if you weren't laughing to yourself all the time.

[Max Rockatansky]

Game Boys are valuable items.

Is that really a thing with how many units Nintendo produced?

[Brandon]

...cars are ugly appliancemobiles.  We might as well be driving refrigerators and microwave ovens...LOL!  Go watch a movie made from the Fifties to the Eighties.  You can tell what most cars are.  Now go to a WallyMart and see how many cars you can ID.  Even the ones you can most likely are lacking in style.  If I had known the early 21st century was going to be so ugly, I think I would have looked for a cryogenic storage facility a quarter century ago...LOL!

Rick

Beats the shit out of me what most '50s cars are from looking at them.  Anything before 1960 tends to look alike.  Cars since 1960 are a lot easier, IMHO, to tell apart.

[kkt]

Some of my daughter's classmates have driver's licenses.

[ET21]

... I don't have a hoverboard

[GaryV]

The Y2K problem still hasn't materialized.

[MNHighwayMan]

It will in 2038 if 64-bit time values aren't widely adopted.

[nexus73]

If I had known the early 21st century was going to be so ugly, I think I would have looked for a cryogenic storage facility a quarter century ago...

And what if the future is even uglier?

Now that is a scary thought!

Rick

[kkt]

It will in 2038 if 64-bit time values aren't widely adopted.

Yes, but current versions of Unix have used 64-bit time fields for quite a few years already.  Lots of embedded systems remain, but they'll probably be long thrown away by the time today's newborns are having their first drink.

[cjk374]

I can't believe how much money I make...and I'm still broke.

[D-Dey65]

Microsoft is forcing me to use my old browser, because the latest upgrade they forced on me has kept me from using my current one.


Then again, maybe I should believe it.

[I-39]

Cars still run on gasoline

[jp the roadgeek]

They still publish phone books and offer 4-1-1 directory assistance.

People still write paper checks at the store (usually when I'm behind them and it's an express lane)

[MNHighwayMan]

People still write paper checks at the store (usually when I'm behind them and it's an express lane)

Thing is, though, (and I know this from working at one) that most major retailers these days have a POS system that runs paper checks like debit card transactions. While yes, it takes longer, mostly because writing a check takes longer than swiping a piece of plastic, it's also pretty much impossible to kite a check these days because the system immedately runs the account info and checks to see if the transaction is valid, like debit/credit cards.

[US71]

That its' still not butter....

porque?