When Was the Last Time You "Dialed" a Phone Number?
posted August 29, 2006 - 1:20pmI mean, with a rotary dial phone? Not recently, I'd bet, but such terms are still with us. A couple of weeks ago I read a news story about how Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin has been compiling a "mindset list" each year to help remind professors that their students have grown up in a different world, with different assumptions, than the older staff members.
Some of the more interesting items I found in their list for this year's incoming class, the Class of 2010 (you can find the whole list, and one's for previous years, at http://www.beloit.edu/publicaffairs/mindset/ :
* There has never been a Soviet Union, and Germany has always been one country.
* Items from library card to retail goods have always had bar codes on them.
* Reality TV shows have always been on the air.
* Professional athletes have always competed in the Olympics.
Check out the full list list at the link above. What items would you add to it? What other references and phrases do young people find odd and antiquated these days?

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Paranoia
Dragonfly
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Yeah I'm probably just
The Dame
Damebug is someone who was
Paranoid is right
Dragonfly
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I'm going to check that
http://www.xomba.com/user/thewonderer
Doesn't ring a bell with me
Anyone else thinks its awful
As Usual
Dragonfly
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What college students know today
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