Yep. I don’t know when it started actually, but I think it may be happening. Dee and I were on the way home from running some errands, and the discussion turned to music. During the conversation, I made reference to “spinning” some tunes. “Spinning?” she says. “Right… spinning… like a CD”. And then it hit me. CDs are loosing ground to MP3s and other digital technology, just like vinyl albums did back when.
I started feeling old. I remember reading an article a couple years back talking about how that year’s college freshmen couldn’t understand analogies like “you sound like a broken record” because they had never experienced a broken record. They probably hadn’t even ever seen a vinyl record. You used to “spin” records. At least that worked for CDs. I guess before long, even that won’t make sense.
I wonder what the newest analogies will be considering kids these days are growing up with iPods and other such digital players.
“Dude. Your bitstream is out of order!”
or perhaps:
“Dude. You take up too much bandwidth!”
Yep. I think I’m starting to get old.
Edit: a couple more alternatives thanks to Yahoo Answers