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I grew up in the 60's. The entire article rings true. The first calculator I saw was in a college chemistry class in 1973. I was an expert with the slide rule and the requisite scientific notation as we all were. I remember diagraming sentences for my English teacher. I actually had phonics in the second and third grade. I used to love going to a field and blowing the heads off of gophers with my trusty semi-automatic 22. Mom would say, "Be careful and have a nice time," as I went out the door with a couple of boxes of shells. I had Hunter's Safety when I was 12 so It was OK. Kids were kids and we weren't scared of nothing except for anyone who was older than we were. If the person was way older, we actually used the words sir or maam.

However, I am now 48 and I love my X box! I don't have any respect for kids these days because they don't have any respect for me.

I remember the '80s as a simpler better time.

ROTHFLMHO!!

Man, I must be getting old. I remember the 50's ...How annoying is that?

Speaking of annoying, how about gettin' your hands off my Rogain!

Next week I will be turning 35 years old. Over the Christmas Holiday I spent a lot of time thinking about how much things have changed since I was younger. While, I don't remember my first pizza (we ate it often) and making telephone calls on a party line, I do remember things that no longer exist or have observed its evolution. I am not a fan of VH1, but they did do a day long program about the 1980's and pop culture and I forget many things that were apart of that decade (i.e. Terrence Trent Darby). You can always look back and think about the "good ol days", but I have concluded that the focus should be on the future. The 1980's was a great decade, but I was not totally aware of the Soviet threat, how much power the Democrats had in congress and the lunatic ideas of the left like wanting to unilaterally dismantle our nuclear weapons. Sean Hannity's book brings up a lot of these points and I am grateful that those days are over. I am an optimist and believe the big lie of liberalism is coming to an end. It will not happen overnight, but one day in early 1990 we woke up and Communism died. It is nice to look back and recall good times with friends and family, but right here, right now, there is no other place I would rather be.

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the 1980s. I remember the '80s as a simpler better time.

LOL! I went to college in the 80's. The 80's were a simpler time - most of what you could catch could be cured with Pennicilin. Nowadays you're goner.

I don't think I'm going to be able to keep a straight face the day I tell my children "When I went to school we listened to 'The Cure'" and they give me that "You're old and square" look...