You Know You Are Living In 2007 WHEN.......

[Sticks]

This was sent to me this morning



You Know You Are Living In 2007 WHEN.......

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that
they don't have e-mail addresses..

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the
screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the
first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and
you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
: )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this
message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.



We regularly do number 4 :shifty:

[Eric Vaxxine]

14 & 15.

But to add .... 'You know you are living in 2007 when ...'
you don't even try to remember any telephone numbers.

[Frog march]

16. you think you can google the transrip of a conversation you had with someone the other day, because you've forgotten what was said.


or maybe that's just me

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

17. When you realize predicting new technologies by predicting the trend is useless.

[ggremlin]

You stop writing 2006 on your checks. Per-Internet Humor.

[KaiYeves]

Even in the updated versions of classic space books, you can find stuff that's wrong.

[Paracelsus]

10 & 11

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

You start seeing the effects of generations which polluted the earth and released carbon and now your generation has to pay for it.

[Grand_Lunar]

You no longer carry a watch, preferring to use your cell phone as a time piece.

[KaiYeves]

You know it's four days until the 50th anniversary of Sputnik!
We really must make that a BAUT holiday. Possibly also a national one.

[Whirlpool]

My First Dog is named Sputnik.

I Know I'm living in 2007 cus....

almost all are over the Net ...people everywhere is busy with their fingers -- busy meaning , u see a man waiting for the bus holding a stylus pen and browsing over his PDA, a lady havinig her morning coffee busy with her laptop, kids these days playing with their toys which are mostly remote controlled or computer generated , etc.

What more if its already Year 2020?

Hope people will still have their feet on the ground and still feel their hearts beating .

:neutral:

[mike alexander]

Cell phones - bah!

And I WIND my watch.

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

Cell phones - bah!

And I WIND my watch.

Winding - bah!

I use one of these. (http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/articles/toycollection/sundial_wristwatch/mainimage.jpg)

[tdvance]

add to that, "you can never remember your own number".

Ok--I know two of my numbers (home landline, work landline in office I use most), but the other ones (5 office (not 5 offices, 3 offices, 2 phones per office, one phone already counted), one cell) I have to look up every time.

Todd

[mike alexander]

You keep getting locked out of programs because you can't keep all the bloody passwords straight and have to go to the Administrator for a new one every time you use it, since you can't write it down, or anything.

I've just about given up and enter gibberish until the program locks me out and the Admin lets me back in. So I guess my password is 'Administrator'.

And while we're on the topic, having my computer at HOME tell me to contact the Administrator is both a sign and a warning, I think.

[Ronald Brak]

Your parents gamble that they will be declared unfit to drive before oil runs out.

[tdvance]

Your parents gamble that they will be declared unfit to drive before oil runs out.

Sounds like 1977 or so actually, when we only had 5 years of oil left, so we were told in school!!!!

Todd

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

...there is only 3 months left of it.

[KaiYeves]

You keep getting locked out of programs because you can't keep all the bloody passwords straight and have to go to the Administrator for a new one every time you use it, since you can't write it down, or anything.
I use my BAUT password as my computer password, but my usernames are different. And my school password and username are another thing entirely. Just pick short words and memorize the keystrokes and, pretty soon, you won't even care about the letters.

[mike alexander]

No, no, this is OFFICIAL stuff, where you have to have mixtures of numbers, upper and lower case, symbols and perhaps a carrot or a piece of cheese. And you have to change them regularly.

[Eric Vaxxine]

'You know you are living in 2007 when...'
People can't find your
house when they don't have sat nav.
(a true story).

[Ronald Brak]

Sounds like 1977 or so actually, when we only had 5 years of oil left, so we were told in school!!!!

My parents just hid gasoline in the shed back then as they as they figured that they were merely looking at a jump to a higher price equilbrium that may or may not have been stable. Now they judge that changing conditons in various oil producing countries will mostly limit oil to under $120 a barrel for the next five years and bought a six cylinder vehicle. I asked them to think about the younger generation and they said, "What have you done for us lately?"

[Whirlpool]

You're living with 2007..

where .. passwords are compulsory .. everywhere you go .. not only in using the computer ...

in opening secured-locked doors such as ours in the office..
when using ATM/credit cards ..
when opening your car ( i saw it somewhere <thinks>)
..
other's are voice-activated passwords...

hmm..

im thinking of the refrigerator that is password activated.

:think:

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

im thinking of the refrigerator that is password activated.

In other news: Disabled man starves to death in his own house after forgetting refrigerator password...


:D

[toejam]

You know it's four days until the 50th anniversary of Sputnik!
We really must make that a BAUT holiday. Possibly also a national one.

Was that 50 yrs ago? We had a cat called Sputnik & a dog called Nixon, cos he, the dog, was an SOB too.

[KaiYeves]

Was that 50 yrs ago?
It's disgusting that Newsweek gave one page to Sputnik's anniversary and a three page spread with big pictures to Halo 3.

[Sticks]

Only 3 pages....

[KaiYeves]

Only 3 pages....
Which was two more not about Sputnik.

[Noclevername]

...16. That a videogame gets three pages in a news publication.

[toejam]

Which was two more not about Sputnik.

Sputnik was a fluke.
Or maybe the last example that "their" Germans were better at rocketry & teaching it than "our" Germans.

[KaiYeves]

Sputnik was a fluke.
Or maybe the last example that "their" Germans were better at rocketry & teaching it than "our" Germans.
Perhaps, and many at the time thought it was The End.
But it was not The End, it was The Beginging.
The Beginging of all the rest of history.

[Noclevername]

...When people talk about the Moon landing, and I realize I was born that year.

[Frog march]

and you'll know when it is 2050 when you have a PC the size of a room packed with 2048bit processors but because of all the malware running on it you only switch it on to play pingpong-on rainy days.

[toejam]

Your car is T-boned by a driver talking on his cell-phone & looking at a GPS map in his car to see where he was going.

[tdvance]

...you break several laws if your kid sits in the front seat of a car with no booster and no seatbelt, like I did all my childhood.

[tdvance]

To bring this dead horse back to life to beat it some more....

you know you live in 2007 when...

you go online to netflix.com and click on "my queue" to find out what DVDs you have in the tv room rather than get up and go to the TV room and look.

(as I just did).

Todd

[Noclevername]

When you use your cell phone to call someone and tell them you'll be calling them in ten minutes.

[please]

...you break several laws if your kid sits in the front seat of a car with no booster and no seatbelt, like I did all my childhood....when you break several laws by doing any thing at all?


oh well, you know it is 2007 when your clock says so.

[Sarawak]

So are we supposed to update this to the current year, or does it stay stuck in 2007?

[Sticks]

I looked at this being the OP, as it came from a list "You know you are living in 2007" I am not sure if it should be renamed.

Maybe if someone was compiling such a list today, would it be completely different?

[Frog march]

you know it's 1008BC when you've got leprosy again.

[Sarawak]

Well, in that case, you know you're living in 2007 because there are places on the planet where you can go almost a whole minute without hearing the words "financial crisis".

[Paul Beardsley]

You know you are living in 2010 when a thread called "You Know You Are Living In 2007 WHEN....." is three years old.

[Sarawak]

You know you are living in 2007 because on every street corner in every city of the world, people are celebrating Scotland's Year of Highland Culture.