If not, then consider the following:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980 ... (I received this joke in 1998)

• They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era and didn't know he had ever been shot.
  
  
• They were pre-pubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
  
  
• Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
  
  
• There has been only one Pope.  They can only really remember one president.
  
  
• They were eleven when the Soviet Union broke apart and don't remember the Cold War.
  
  
• They have never feared a nuclear war.  "The Day After" is a pill to them, not a movie.
  
  
• They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
  
  
• Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
  
  
• Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
  
  
• Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
  
  
• Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audio tapes.
  
  
• They have never owned a record player.
  
  
• They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.
  
  
• Star Wars looks very fake to them, and the special effects are pathetic.
  
  
• There have always been red M&M's and blue ones are not new. There used to be beige/tan ones?
  
  
• They may have heard of an 8-track, but probably never actually seen (or heard) one.
  
  
• The Digital Disc was presented to Wall Street when they were one year old.
  
  
• From their earliest years, a camera was something you could use once and threw away.
  
  
• As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 30 cents.
  
  
• Few, if any, have lived without answering machines.  Or pagers. Or a cell phone.  Or ATM machines.  Or cable.  Or MTV.
  
  
• Few have used a TV set with only 13 channels (much less one without color).
  
  
• They have always had cable.
  
  
• There has always been VCR's, but they have no idea what BETA is.
  
  
• They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
  
  
• Some use the word "clickers" for "remote control," yet they don't know why they say it.
  
  
• They were born the year that the Walkman was introduced by Sony.
  
  
• The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
             
• Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
  
  
• The Tonight Show has always been with Jay Leno.
  
  
• They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
  
  
• Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
  
  
• They have never seen Larry Bird play, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a football player.
  
  
• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
  
  
• The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII, or even the Civil War.
  
  
• They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
  
  
• They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
  
  
• They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
  
  
• They never heard: "Where's the beef?," "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," or "da plane, da plane!"
  
  
• They don't care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. is.
  
  
• The Titanic was found?  I thought we always knew where it was.
  
  
• Michael Jackson has always been white.
  
  
• Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not groups.
  
  
• McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
  
  
• There has always been MTV.