You might not know of this specific list, but you know the type of list it is, I am sure. Since 1998 a professor and a former admin at Beloit college have worked on an annual list of what kid of today have never known, or always known, compared to prior generations.
Born when Ross Perot was warning about a giant sucking sound and Bill Clinton was apologizing for pain in his marriage, members of this fall’s entering college class of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation for whom the digital world is routine and technology is just too slow.
I thought I'd share some items on the list, and hoped we could come up with more to add to it.
Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
“Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.
John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
“Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.
Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.
Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
So being the intelligent bunch of folks we have here at the GOS can we come up with some of our own?