I think I saw something collecting phrases that date back to the middle ages that are just used casually now without any knowledge of the origin, or the knowledge that there should be any pop culture origin.
Edit: Like @gastroglizzy@piefed.social commenting here as well, that calling someone a “guy” actually is because of Guy Fawkes.
fwiw I’m nearly 30 and I’ve never seen a window crank irl, only in that one Conan bit where he went on a drive with one of his staff. I assumed they stopped making them in the 80s, 90s at the latest.
Yeah fair enough. My car only has it because the previous owner specifically requested it. But previously we had a 1992 that legitimately had the window cranks. I’m in my 30s and most cars I grew up with also had them. I think probably mid-late 90s for standardization of the automated ones.
TIL, we use the phrase “roll up the window” because early car windows had manual cranks that to be turned to open or close them.
And it’s not even wrong today as we are still rolling it up.
TIL we use the phrase “dial a phone number” because old phones had a rotary dial that you had to spin to the numbers, like hands on an analog clock.
(I’m actually old enough to have used rotary phones, and my knees hurt before it rains lol)
I still have one that in theory i can use on the VOIP line but I just haven’t plugged it in
TIL there’s ppl that don’t know this and I’m old as fuck
There’s kids that don’t know what the save icon is and wouldn’t know what you’re talking about if you mention the pound sign
And nobody likes when you drop octothorpe into casual conversation
I’m pretty pissed off thinking about these kids. Get off my lawn!
And we still hang up our phone.
I think I saw something collecting phrases that date back to the middle ages that are just used casually now without any knowledge of the origin, or the knowledge that there should be any pop culture origin.
Edit: Like @gastroglizzy@piefed.social commenting here as well, that calling someone a “guy” actually is because of Guy Fawkes.
As someone who grew up with those windows, I just realized I’m an unc now
Wtf my car still has these and its from 2007. And 2007 was only 2 years ago so.
fwiw I’m nearly 30 and I’ve never seen a window crank irl, only in that one Conan bit where he went on a drive with one of his staff. I assumed they stopped making them in the 80s, 90s at the latest.
Yeah fair enough. My car only has it because the previous owner specifically requested it. But previously we had a 1992 that legitimately had the window cranks. I’m in my 30s and most cars I grew up with also had them. I think probably mid-late 90s for standardization of the automated ones.
Even power windows have a gear that rolls to open or close them.
How about the fairly universal “save” icon being a floppy disk icon even now decades after they became obsolete?