80 Signs You're an Old Millennial

Those of you millennials who've heard about the "entitled" generation of your time might strongly distance yourselves because you don't consider yourself a part of that end of the age bracket. You played Oregon Trail, not Neopets, and you're realizing now more than ever that you're way too old for some of the sh*t out there. And that's where the difference between "old" and "young" millennials comes in.

One major distinction is age. Within that 1980 to 2000 window, you fall under the first half and identify more with My So-Called Life than with Degrassi, Nokias over Motorola Razrs, and CDs over iPods. Basically everything that was relevant to your childhood and teenage years was way cooler than what followed. Sound like you? Here are 80 more signs to tell you're an old millennial.

Flickr user Christiaan Colen

  1. Your first online music experience was Napster.
  2. You went off the grid and sent letters to friends during Summer camp. (DO THEY SNAPCHAT THEM NOW?!)
  3. You remember how exciting it was when Limited Too opened.
  4. When the house phone rang, you got kicked off the internet.
Flickr user Connie Ma

  1. Lisa Frank + Trapper Keepers made you cool at school.
  2. Every kid ate PB and J because no one had allergies.
  3. You still watch/own DVDs.
  4. You remember waiting impatiently for magazines like the American Girl Magazine to come in the mail in elementary school.
Flickr user get directly down

  1. You remember having to wait to get film developed and not knowing how the photos turned out until then!
  2. You used Sun-In to dye your hair in high school.
  3. You remember seeing The Lion King in theaters.
  4. You spent a solid portion of Summer chatting with friends on AOL.
Flickr user Nicolás Boullosa

  1. You had a first-generation iPod . . . in college.
  2. You once taped your favorite music videos on VHS when they played on TV.
  3. One of your friends' parents had a fax machine.
  4. The mean girls worked at Hot Dog on a Stick and you sped-walked by them to avoid making eye contact.

  1. You had or remember that Red Hot Chili Peppers sock poster.
  2. You watched MTV 24/7.
  3. You once mail-ordered an ant farm and it was a hot mess.
  4. You called the radio to win things.
Getty | SGranitz

  1. You had crushes on Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, or all three.
  2. You spent at least an hour setting up your dorm room voicemail with your roommate.
  3. You snuck on your landline phone late at night when your parents were asleep.
  4. You had an address book (as in paper) with friends' addresses and phone numbers in it.
Flickr user Enokson

  1. You lived for the Scholastic Book Fair at school.
  2. You happily attended high school before social media existed.
  3. You would spend hours making scrapbooks with real photographs.
  4. It took you hours to download one song on Napster.
Flickr user Martin Pettitt

  1. You have a case of CDs sitting in the back of your closet.
  2. You love Disney movies, while young millennials love Disney Channel Original movies!
  3. You had a pager and it wasn't allowed at school, so you had to sneak it in but then removed it so it was visible during lunch so people could ogle.
  4. You actually know your BFFs' phone numbers by heart.
Flickr user porcupiny

  1. You remember buying your first pair of expensive jeans in high school. (Sevens, naturally.)
  2. You had to adjust rabbit ears to get certain channels on TV.
  3. You don't use Snapchat or want to.
  4. You know what "Please Be Kind, Rewind" means and take it seriously.
Flickr user Sean MacEntee

  1. You miss when Facebook was only for college students.
  2. You remember your hand cramping up from writing papers with a pen or pencil.
  3. Friends had to talk to your parents first when they called the house. AWKWARD!
  4. You watched SNICK and TGIF.
Flickr user David Boté Estrada

  1. You used to spend hours in Blockbuster on Friday nights picking out a movie to rent.
  2. You had the same dress from Jessica McClintock as five other girls at prom.
  3. You had a complex about liking Justin Bieber's music because he was so young.
  4. You prefer Facebook to Instagram.

  1. You had a Sassy subscription.
  2. You used Firefox browser.
  3. You had someone listening in on three-way calling before caller ID was a thing.
  4. You wore roller skates and roller blades. Both were cool and dominated birthday parties.
Flickr user storebukkebruse

  1. You had a sticker collection.
  2. You remember when designer jeans became a thing and wore weird thick jeans from Gap or hideous legging jeans before then.
  3. You put lots of inappropriate pictures on Facebook because you didn't realize it would be opened to everyone and had no concept of "things living on the internet forever" at the time.
  4. You brag about how much you drink (always posting Instagrams of cocktails and wine tasting trips), while young millennials are always bragging about how much they work out (Instagrams of hikes and sneakers and acai bowls).
Flickr user Mike Mozart

  1. Delia's was indie.
  2. You recorded *NSYNC (etc.) music videos on VHS to learn the dance moves.
  3. You used a pencil to fix cassette tapes.
  4. You love Nickelodeon, not Disney Channel.
Flickr user Frédérique Voisin-Demery

  1. Your version of a playlist was compiling songs onto a mixtape (you taped off the radio or other cassettes in a dual-tape boombox).
  2. Your middle school mall go-tos were Contempo Casuals, 5-7-9, Limited, and Express.
  3. You would slowly savor your Delia's catalog when it came in the mail in high school.
  4. You love The Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and R.L. Stine (but not even that much; you were too busy watching TRL) more than Harry Potter.
Getty | KMazur / WireImage

  1. Eric Nies was on your babes list!
  2. You wore men's large rock-band tees and were so excited when they came out with "baby tees," aka t-shirts that fit the female form.
  3. Your parents picked you up at the gate when you deplaned.
Flickr user Kami Rao

  1. Your first cell phone was the original Nokia with the Snake game.
  2. You remember when your school was finally allowed to sign up for Facebook (long before it was open to everyone, you could only join if you went to certain colleges).
  3. You excitedly checked email every day but rarely had any.
Flickr user osseous

  1. You got your music from LimeWire in college.
  2. You wore crop tops in the early '90s and aren't going back for more this time around.
  3. Your first laptop didn't actually go with you anywhere because it was too heavy.
Flickr user m01229

  1. You read the Baby-Sitters Club and Saddle Club books.
  2. You remember when "LOL" was actually coined.
  3. You hung dangling "hippie beads" from your bedroom door entrance.
  4. You got your first cell phone in high school or college and feel a combo of envy and rage watching kids on devices today.
Flickr user MiNe

  1. You had a Discman.
  2. You recorded episodes of My So-Called Life over tapes that had previously been used to record 90210 episodes.
  3. You partial-dyed your hair with Manic Panic and had no idea that you were making the trends.
  4. You experienced at least one disaster with Sea Monkeys.
Getty | Kevin Winter

  1. You don't love adding photos of yourself on social media.
  2. You remember watching O.J. Simpson's Bronco chase.
  3. You played Pogs and/or traded Pokémon cards very seriously.
  4. Some heartthrobs for young millennials seem like little kids and just feel creepy, like those twin boys (Dylan and Cole Sprouse) who were in Big Daddy!