What? Gladiator came out over 10 years ago?

Something that brought it home recently was when I happened to be around when a coworker's daughter picked her up from work. I remember when the coworker was pregnant with that daughter. It was somehow jolting to realise that the daughter is now 18. Obviously I knew that much time had passed, but for some reason the daughter driving a car brought the amount of time to my attention.

When I was 14, seeing Chequered Flag running in Woolworths was so impressive that I spent 6 weeks picking runner beans for 30 hours a week to earn enough money to buy a 48K Spectrum so I could play such spectactular games. I considered it well worth 180 hours of hard work. A while ago, I watched a video of Chequered Flag on Youtube. It's awful.
 
I've just seen this awesome film! The story goes 'real life' as we know it isn't real and it's all an elaborate computer program! The special effects were amazing, loads of slo-mo bullet time and fight scenes!

Wait..
That was 11 years ago!?
:(
 
Had one of those moments last week when I went to Alton Towers on Polling Day. The first time I went to AT I had just turned 15 and labour were swept into power (I was also sick the next day after running the 100m at school, I hated exercise as a kid/teenager) fast forward and I am 28

What happened?
 
Is it just me or has the stuff on TV got really terrible compared to what was on TV from 1990-2001? I remember kids TV shows and cartoons being so much more fun and addictive with geat stuff like Rocko's Modern Life, Doug, and Are you afraid of the dark. I also remember holiday weekends during Christmas when the BBC and ITV would put on big movies and families would sit together and watch - something which seems to have been forgotten by ITV and the BBC with their lack of good movies these days on at Christmas. Also miss TV shows like Noel Edmonds House Party :(
 
Damn this thread is bad. Now i feel old (22 at the end of the month) :(


I just googled when Star Wars Epi 1 Came out as did someone else in the thread. I remember that quite a lot actually (having to sit in a cinema with sooo many screaming kids) and wow it was 11 years ago. Life seems to fly by.

On another note, anyone feeling like they have potentially wasted a lot of those years? :o
 
1996, best year ever.
Hot summer, Oasis, Euro's, Playstation 1, New (at the time good) government. Independence day released. Mobile phones become popular, Deep blue beats Kasparov, Michael Jordan, Nintendo 64, Pentium processors, First cloned sheep, Atlanta summer Olympics, O.J trial.

The list goes on
Unbeatable.
 
I sometimes feel like that, but at the moment I don't really care, live my life, take it as it comes, I'm happy :)

Stelly
 
My favourite band growing up was the Backstreet Boys ... they got together 17 years ago!! Backstreet's Back was released 13 years ago, I want it that way 11 years.
 
I don't feel particularly old reading this thread, what has depressed me is the realisation that I havent done much over the past 10 years apart from work/get drunk/fiddle with gadgets. I literally think that is the sum total of the decade for me which is depressing.
 
I just read this thread on another forum and came dashing here to see if you stole it. Then I realised you didn't. Im a sad panda now :(
 
I remember lots of things that hit suddenly hit me about how long ago they were, I'm "only" 33, but there are lots of things.
Like, looking at the registration date on my account, that was after the big nuke. EIGHT years ago.
Eight.
I had already been on the forums for a couple of years before that.

I remember reading in Empire about the rights being bought to make the lord of the rings films.

I remember reading an article in loaded about the worlds mosts wanted men, one of which Osama Bin laden, was wanted for organizing attacks on US assets, this was about 2 months before 9/11.

I remember meeting my first wife in 1995, I remember what was on the Telly the first time we switched on our new TV in our brand new just been built house that we bought together a year later, it was that Micheal Caine film with the bees in it, "the swarm" I think its called.
I remember the day my son was born, 07/07/97 at 10.37, and he weighed.........7lb 7oz.

I remember watching Diego Maradonna's hand of god on a tv that was half made out of wood and only had 4 channel buttons on it.

I remember my mum taking me to the pictures to see the Wrath of Khan, Clash of the Titans, the Empire strikes back, Return of the Jedi, Dragon Slayer and when i was very, very young, I remember going to see Fantasia.

I remember thinking how awesome my Amstrad CPC 464 was when my old man brought it home, it was like the future, but now.

And a whole load of other things, its the bullet points, but its the other memories they bring up, the lost friendships, the missed opportunities, people who have passed away.

Since I left school 17 years ago, I've been married, divorced, remarried, I've had 7 jobs (and one of those I had for 12 years................), bought 4 houses (and had 2 left to me), had 13 cars and 13 motorbikes (not including mopeds).

Everything seems like yesterday.
 
Its all about perspective tbh. Lord of the rings was released 3 months or so after 9/11. To me 9/11 seems like a life time ago. I think it is just the significance of the event that makes it stick vividly in your memory.
 
I remember my dad bringing home a ZX81 he bought off a guy in work.

I thought it was amazing - even though all i could do was type letters on a black and white TV screen as we didn't know what to do with it - or have any idea how to program in BASIC. :)

I remember watching the original Star Wars & thinking that movies just couldn't get any better than this - and they didn't - until The Empire Strikes Back. I remember going to my first rave in 1988 (2000+ people from around London, in a conference hall, all hugging and loved up with no attitudes) with a 30,00 watt sound system, dozens of multi coloured lazers and all of the top DJs playing there at the time and thinking life is truely amazing. Nothing has really topped the London Orbital rave era of '88/'89 yet and I don't think it ever will unfortunately.

And I remember listening to the Paul Oakenfold Essential (Goa) mix after coming in from my birthday celebrations (on the 18th Dec 1994) - and again, have yet to hear anything better on the radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix
 
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I'm a bit older than the others on my course at university but it really kicked home when they didn't know who Neil Kinnock was when I was having a jibe at uncool politicians :D

"AAAAAALLLLLL RAIGHT!!!"
 
nex20 said:
I just read this thread on another forum and came dashing here to see if you stole it. Then I realised you didn't. Im a sad panda now :(
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I was pretty clear in my OP that this topic was taken from another forum. I didn't link to it due to swearies. What's up, goon? :)

Content : How can Top Gun be THAT old? I'm never watching TV again.
 
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