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I hope print media will continue to last. It seems like everything is going to the internet. I wonder if kids even know that words can be printed on paper. Most of them have no idea that most of the cartoons they see on TV originally came from comic books.
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I bet that makes Mr Addanac Feel " older" reminds me of the time my kidlets asked me what a walkman and a record player was
My kids don't know what any of the great TV shows like "Three's Company" or "Bosom Buddies" are. They only know Henry Winkler as Adam Sandler's dad in "Click". I feel so ancient and irrelevant.
My kids didn't know what "headphones" were, since they only use "earphones"
Now, they love to read, and that's something we owe to J.K. Rowlings.
Thank goodness for JK.
I showed my kids an Atari 2600 and it might as well have been a phonograph.
It is the spell check that pisses me off. Kids can't spell. What happens if they get kidnapped and they are forced to write a ransom note WTF OMG would be as far as they could get
I hope we'd be able to understand them. I'm trying to get my 13 year old daughter to school me in "Slang-ism" so I can stay up on the latest idioms.
My daughter wanted to know how to spell something so I told her to look it up in the dictionary and she said "why cant we just look it up on the computer"
I wonder if kids have even seen an actual set of encyclopedias before.
I tried to explain a card catalog to my kids once. They can't even imagine what that was like. 
I think we are getting old
I never thought I'd be considered ancient. I guess it's true when they say "you're gonna be older a lot longer than you're gonna be younger."
Good lord. I was in 6th grade in only 19-freakin'-94 and they made a big deal out of teaching us how to use card catalogues and the Dewey Decimal System. Of course, this was also at the same time that the school was patting itself on the back about all the new computers it had just installed…..
I refuse to feel old, because this is all still so new. It happened so damn fast! What REALLY freaks me out is that there are kids in 3rd, 4th grade—-completely conscious, completely aware beings with personalities and minds of their own—-who did not exist when 9/11 happened. THAT freaks me out.
That IS freaky. It seems like the world has advanced more in the past ten years than it has in the past 50. I feel like the 90's were the horse-and-buggy years in reflection now.
What happens when Hank finds out that some dude has been making a webcomic about him?
That guy's identity has been hidden to protect the innocent.
I instantly recalled the time I looked on the site called Comics.com,(where they put the United Media print comics), and finding out that the movie "Over the Hedge" (one of those "CGI kiddie" movies from 2006) was based on a comic strip. Weird…
Hunh. I didn't know that. There's quite a few movies that were based on independent comic books and foreign comic strips.
Hodge would KILL Hank for asking what a "newspaper" was! …. hmmm
Maybe Hodge should give it a try. No one would fault him.
I always read the comic section of the newspapaer first. Of course, that was way before we had this thing called "internet" or "computers".
Damn I feel old now. I'm going to go play a 45 and cry.
What's a 45, Claire?
j/k
If each and every individual in the world cared tremendously about global warming, and it became against the law to cut down trees, then a newspaper wouldn't exist.
What makes me frustrated with comics in the paper is that the majority comics in it, the creator has either retired or gone to glory. Why not let these older comics go and bring in new ones?!
If we keep reading Peanuts, we're going to memorize the entire comic strip.
I agree with you there, M. It appears that the newspaper editors are following some strict regimen that won't allow alteration or upgrading. I guess they're too scared to change the familiar.
My siblings and I are children of the '80s. My sister substitute-taught at a high school last year and made a joking reference to "Saved By The Bell." None of the students knew what she was talking about, or who "Zack Morris" was.
She joked that that made her feel really old.
How could one not know who Zack or Lisa were? They probably have no clue about Elizabeth Berkley running off to film Showgirls, which was a big deal back in the day.
Ah….kids these days.
I think that the cultural "turnover rate" is much faster now than it ever was before. All through the '60s, '70s, '80s, even most of the '90s….it was still easy to find "old" stuff shown on TV. That's changed a lot in the last decade. Now the CEOs who now own all this stuf thanks to big media mergers have decided that it's not profitable to syndicate old stuff like they used to, so it either gets pulled altogether or gets tucked away in dark, dusty corners of the airwaves where no one notices them. And because there's less reliance on "old" stuff to fill the airtime than there used to be, new stuff is produced, pulled and forgotten at a very fast pace now.
The reason it sucks is that at this rate there'll be nothing for people born five years apart to share with each other. XP
A newspaper is a website where you can read the news. Duh!
Exactly! If it wasn't for TMZ, how would you know something happened?
Okay. kids get everything off the internet now….I am that way also. I get a newspaper at my hotel everyday and hardly ever read it. Sometimes they just pile up at my door.
See? You could send me one of those extra newspapers. They're great for cleaning your windshield.