One of the things I used to tell my students when they asked me how old I was, is that I am older than Google. I’m only 44 years old, but that is a testament to the pace of change even in just my lifetime.

And I think that this is something quite profound for many. Lately, my social media feeds have been full of people of my generation and older, reminiscing about how things were ‘back in the day.’ In the silly age-bracket labels that people are placed into nowadays, I am an older millennial (born 1981–1996). I was born in the early 80s and grew up in the nineties, and there seems to be a collective sense of nostalgia and a longing between Millennials and Gen X (born 1965–1980) for how simple life felt back then. 

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