My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…
This trend of saying 1900s for the end of that century seems intentionally aging to me. That was 26 years ago. I feel like even at 50 years it is a little odd to start using that term. I feel like it implies it was at least close to 100 years ago
My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…
This trend of saying 1900s for the end of that century seems intentionally aging to me. That was 26 years ago. I feel like even at 50 years it is a little odd to start using that term. I feel like it implies it was at least close to 100 years ago