1. Ireland’s Eurovision contestant was born in 1998
Molly Sterling will represent Ireland in this year’s Eurovision contestant.
We know what you’re thinking: if you were born in 1998, that makes you, like, 12 years old.
Incorrect. 1998 was 17 years ago. You’re just ancient.
2. Your children will probably never know a Gary
You: “So, my friend Gary –”
Child: “Papa, what’s a Gary?”
3. There are people eligible to vote who weren’t born when the Macarena was out
Macarena was released in 1996, which is, oh, 19 years ago.
BRB, planning our funerals.
4. Riverdance is 21 years old this year
5. Um, 1999 is as far away as 2030
Contrary to what The Rolling Stone might say, time is most certainly not on your side.
6. Dustin the Turkey is 26 years old
So says Wikipedia.
7. Also, Bruce Willis turns 60 years old today
Happy birthday, Bruce!
8. And Pretty Woman is 25 years old
How did that happen?
9. Internet Explorer is officially dead
10. Flip phones are so archaic that they’re literally in museums now
11. With the exception of Screech, the entire cast of Saved by the Bell are in their forties
Hello, mortality.
12. This front page from Back to the Future will be old news by next year
We’re so far into the future, that Back to the Future’s idea of the
13. The kid from The Sixth Sense is so old that he’s mounting a “comeback”
But, but, when did he leave?
14. The Nokia 3210 was launched 16 years ago
It celebrated its sixteenth anniversary yesterday, as a matter of fact.
15. And there are children in this country who have never heard Maniac 2000
A moment’s silence for the youth of today.
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