You are Living in 2005 when...
 

YOU ARE LIVING IN 2005 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.

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You're mean, I don't like you...

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16. When you think to yourself "Ha, when I get older I'll be able to tell my kids I actually had to wait for the internet to load! 15 seconds, both ways, uphill!"

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Any true power user gets their coffee BEFORE going on line. You never know how long you will be writing on CD.
#9? who looks at the numbers?
Not sure I like the crack about not needing a cell phone for the first 60 years of my life. It was only 50, I mean 40, yeah 40. And it's my wife who calls from the driveway about the groceries.

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So true.

I dont even get out of bed, my computer is at the head of my bed I check my email, CD and Top news stories before I put my feet on the floor.

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I can say that I do #6 every time I go to town. What can I say teenagers are LAZY sometimes .

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Hey now, we all know that we are practical, not lazy. lol

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#17 - You have never built your own radio out of a crystal, a coil of wire and a paper clip (sub item: you have never owned a "transistor radio" and aren't even sure what one looks like).

#18 - A gallon of gas is more expensive than a gallon of milk.

#19 - Your phone, camera, phone book, fax machine, calendar, shopping list, watch, and garage door opener are all the same device.

#20 - "LP" stands for the "Libertarian Party" and has nothing to do with music.

#21 - Bush is president - again???!!!?!

#22 - Carroll Shelby is building kick-butt Mustangs again!!!

#23 - Your car has a keypad, but no keys.

#24 - The cassette deck on your stereo has never been used, even once.

#25 - You get more pieces of electronic junk e-mail per day than pieces of physical junk mail per day.

#26 - More than 50% of the people listed in your address book are people that you have never actually met face-to-face.

#27 - You know how to compute a fast Fourier transform in Excel, but can't add a set of four three-digit numbers with a pencil and paper.

#28 - You think a digital watch is more accurate than an analog one.

#29 - You think "TiVo" is a verb.

#30 - "That's pimp!" is a good thing.

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#31 The term "thread" refers to an online discussion as opposed to something you sew together pieces of material with to make clothes.

#32 You can buy a toaster for $6.50 at WalMart and it toasts just as good/bad as your $80 one from Crate and Barrel (btw is there any such thing as a good toaster these days? I've owned 4 in recent memory and none got both sides even without having to flip it and put it back in)

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Yep, I must agree, just about every one of those apply to me and probably everyone I know. :)

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#33 can not start a camp fire with out lighter fluid or gasoline and a match has any one even seen this before
and i still have my crystal radio

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34. When your away from a computer,(and or first for that matter) you feel as if you have nothing to do

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How about you've never heard the terms "Gas War" or "Milk War".

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#35: You can count on one hand the number of pieces of mail you've received since moving into your room.

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#36. You are on the Internet reading a thread about living in 2005.

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#37. You are shocked when you read in a book that most people only began using the internet and personal computers in 1990. You thought that it had been since the 70's or '80s.

BTW if you want to read an interesting perspective on technology and how it is completely changing the world around us, check out "The World is Flat." It's #1 on the NYT Bestseller list right now and really good

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#38. A "small" soda is 16oz.

#39. You carry a bottle of water around with you

#40. You don't have to wait for the radio or TV to warm up

#41.You don't even have to get up to change the channel.

#42. 'PG' movies are "family fare" but evening TV viewing is not

#43 The commercials are as embarassing as the programming

#44. Window cranks in cars are a novelty

#45. You can buy a watch and a calculator for the price of a greeting card

#46. A checkup at the doctor costs more than a decent computer system

#47. Your "average" NY Yankee player salary is roughly 150 times that of the average U.S. worker and over 2,200 times as much as that of an average Zimbabwe worker

#48. Driving a truck is mainstream fashionable

#49. Your favorite rock groups may be AARP members (and maybe even collecting social security)

#50. You are re-assurred about the future leadership pool by the rising stars of FIRST you've been fortunate to work with, meet, or read/hear about

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#51 your able to sit in lectures typing notes up on a laptop ( i don't have a laptop but many do)
#52 you buy more stuff online than in shops
#53 chips means silicon not fried potato ( crisps to you/chips to us = fries)
#54 More people text than call...

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#55 you are working in cad class and you are handed back a paper that says "see Y 14.5" and you say my book only goes up to acad 14

only engineers will get that