If you are about my age (born 1960s) then in the 1980s WWII was literally only “40 years ago” but probably seemed like it may as well have been 100. And Vietnam, those were old people even though it only happened about 10 years ago.
But today, the mid 1980s were “40 years ago.” So right now you are as close to your teen years in the 80s as WWII was to you in your teen years in the 80s. And it doesn’t seem like the 80s were that long ago. I can’t possibly be THAT old.
Yup. Child of early 60s here. I remember thinking “we won today” because the news showed we killed more vc than they killed of us. Like a ballgame score. And after all the civil defense tv promotions, I remember thinking air raid sirens were going off until I finally put my head to a vent and realized it was the a/c. To this day I’d swear a mig flew down my street. Was it an air show thing? Dunno. Big red star painted on the fuselage. 50 years ago? Top 40 music started sucking in the 80s for me. 40 years ago? Please don’t tell me the 90s were 30 years ago…
When I start to think about the changes that have happened in my lifetime, I consider my Dad was born in 1938 and was 30 when came into the world. It’s fair to say the world changed more between his birth and mine than since.
Whenever I feel like I have been around for a while, I remember the B52 first flew in (surprise, surprise) 1952.
The first commercially successful semi automatic rifle was introduced in 1905 or 1906, the Remington Model 8.
Andy
Yeah, my wife and I talk about that quite a bit. I was born in 1968, and somewhere along the way, I think the mid 2000s, I realized I was getting older. And now I am just old lol. When you start having peers retiring and having grandchildren, and you go to more funerals than weddings.
Yeah, I feel it.
The effects are widespread but I can really point it out with cars. Like “antiques” for me are cars from pre WW2, “classic” or “vintage” is 40’s to 60’s. It felt weird as hell when it started getting hard to find on the shelf parts for my 70’s GM step side. No offense meant to the OPs Corvette, but I have a real hard time thinking of cars from the 70’s through the oughts as classics. I mean they are just “regular cars” right? 
My perception of time is compressed around my experience. The Berlin Wall came down not that long ago, and the Y2K fears were what, a few years back. 
Time is a bitch…the deer in my avatar was shot news years AM 1999. I was still able to hop in & out of the pick up bed with ease back then. Gotta step stool now dang it.
Don’t like where it seems like we are headed, but I’m glad I was born in the late 60’s & grew up in an era sans phones / 110 tv channels.
Sounds of the 80’s…this’ll make ya smile.
https://twitter.com/MichaelWarbur17/status/1758767552317014432
I was born 20 years after WWII ended. From today 20 years ago was 2004. Think about that…(no shit, I’m getting old!)
Someone once pointed out the obvious: The older you get the faster time seems to go. When you’re 20 a decade is half your life so far. When you’re 50 it’s only 20% of your life.
This will blow your mind;
I watched the Moon landings with my Dads, Mom. We’re watching them walk on the Moon and I said “Did you ever imagine you would see Man walk on the moon?” She replied “When I was Born, they didn’t even have Airplanes yet”.
So My Grandmother was born before Orville and Wilbur took their first flight at Kittyhawk.
I remember my Dad ( Who worked at6 Bell Labs) bringing home a Cell phone in something like 1975-76. I asked when it would be ready, he said “Working on the Battery.”
Now if you ask me both Landing on the Moon and the current development on Cell Phones have equal significance.
We actually tend to overlook our everyday miracles.
Turning 30 was painful…miss my youth & somehow thought I would stay young forever looking at dad’s generation. Looked in the mirror, hair was thinning so went down to wally world & still using the same wahl clippers 1x a week sans guard. Man would I love to be in my 30’s again!! After 30 I quit giving a crap about the candles.
Mom / Dad are inching into their 80’s…wife wants the boy to hurry up & get the grandkids flowing. I’m sure I’ll love it, but my brain won’t let me yearn for it??
Crap Artos!
Your post led me to realize I’ve been sporting this high and tight flattop for 38 years.
Music is where it always hits me. I was born in the ‘80s and when I was a kid the Beatles were more recent than Nirvana is right now.
What qualifies for retro firearms blows my mind. It has a carry handle, this is our retro line. WTF?!? I shoot that one all the time.
Pat Benatar is 71! When did that happen?
I still remember when she turned around at a concert, bent over at the waist and shook her ass at us. The whole audience went nuts, myself included. Where did the time go? 
You dam kids are killin me,LOL Yea I listen to radio and the oldies are now songs that I listened to even after HS & collage,WTF!! I watched the Beatles the 1st time they were on the Ed Sullivan show,same with the Stones/Doors,etc. I watched the Who and Keith Moon blow up his drum set on the Smothers Brothers Show,guess he blew out an ear drum doing it,LOL Time certainly is a funny thing and it gets by us pretty quick without even realizing it. I finally retired in Jan of this year,piss poor financial planning and a few other things but just finally had to do it. At my age its fun/sad to look back but realize it all happened for a reason and wouldn’t change much if anything,just glad I have my health and an awesome wife of 41+ years. When ya get older I think its important to realize ya probably got a lot more time in back of you than ya do in front,live enjoy and think about the good times but its never to late to make new ones.
I remember in the mid '70s, I was young, five or six, my dad taking me to the American Legion hall for some activities. There were a smattering of Vietnam vets, but a crapload of World War II vets, and some World War I vets.
Of course I had no idea about the concept of time or the context of the company I was in, but look back at snippets of my young life like that and realize how fleeting and fast time is.
She was a hot little chipmonk. I loved her early music.
I was just thinking, why they can no longer make awesome music like they did in the 60s and 70s, has creactivity become extinct? Then i remembered that mom use to listen to 50s do wop pop and and figured she thought the same thing. I still think todays music sucks but i understand its not their creactivity that has dried up its that im getting older and my brain no longer recognizes the new sounds.
Getting older is a funny thing.
Look how this aged…computers in the 80’s.
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1758959504191033589