29 Things That Put Time In Perspective

1.

Maude Flanders has been dead for 13 years.

2.

The Walkman is 35 years old and most kids have no idea what it is.

3.

In the original 'Back to the Future', Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955. If it were remade next year, he'd travel to 1985.

4.

This hard drive weighs over 26 pounds and stores a massive 20 MB of data, or around 10 HD photos. It's a fairly young 32 years old.

5.

Most of the students in school today are too young to know what the save icon is.

6.

VHS tapes were surpassed by DVDs as the preferred method of movie consumption 14 years ago. Now, services like Netflix are making the DVD obsolete.

7.

What Google's first page design looked like when it debuted in 1998.

8.

In 1980, A US Postage Stamp cost 15 cents. In 2014, one stamp reached an all-time high of 49 cents.

9.

The Motorola Razr flip phone, released in 2004, is now in a museum.

10.

If 'Friends' were still running, Monica and Chandler's twins would be 10 years old, Emma would be 12, the triplets would be 16 and Ben would be 19.

11.

If you bought the computing power found inside an iPhone 5 in 1991, it would have cost you $3.56 million. It makes $1,000 seem far more reasonable.

12.

SpongeBob SquarePants has been running for 15 years.

13.

If the Simpsons actually aged, Maggie would be 26.

14.

'Matilda', released in 1996, then and now.

15.

'Beauty and the Beast' 1991 was released closer to the moon landing in 1969 than the modern day.

16.

The baby on the cover of 'Nevermind' is now old enough to legally drink.

17.

All the students who entered high school in fall 2014 were born in the year 2000 or later.

18.

The kids from 'Recess' would all be 26 now.

19.

Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of "The Fresh Prince."

20.

What Facebook looked like when it began in 2004.

21.

If you were alive before 1969, landing on the moon was the stuff of science fiction. Now, it's ancient history.

22.

The first season of 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' aired 16 years ago.

23.

This is what 30 years of cell phones looks like.

24.

The first "original nine" Beanie Babies debuted 21 years ago in 1993, so they're old enough to drink too.

25.

The first book in the Harry Potter series was published 17 years ago.

26.

In the '90s, Nick Nite showed vintage programs like I Love Lucy. Now it shows vintage programs like Friends.

27.

Elijah Wood was 18 when he was cast for Lord of the Rings. He's 33 now.

28.

The Nokia 3310 was the best selling phone of 2000, 13 years later in 2013, the iPhone 5s was the best selling phone.

29.

This is what was being stolen in the first 'The Fast and The Furious' movie, released in 2001.