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I was genuinely gobsmacked yesterday to see someone post a thing on facebook about Shawshank Redemtoion being 20 years old


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2840523/Morgan-Freeman-Tim-Robbins-reunite-20th-Anniversary-Screening-Shawshank-Redemption.html


20 bloody years!!!


There are things more recent than that which I'd have sworn came first.


What things still feel quite new to you, but really really aren't?

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...and, to be honest, email, the internet, everyone having a mobile and text messages. Maybe anything that happens after your early twenties stays new because you have adult memories of what life was like before them?


(ETA: crossed with above but I'm leaving it in a spirit of solidarity.)

Not meant as a lost youth thread RD.


Someone said Britpop, but for me that does feel like ages ago. In my OP when I said "There are things more recent than that which I'd have sworn came first." I was actually thinking of Oasis songs.


I still think of The Killers first album as quite recent, but that's over 10 years old now.

Shawshank only 20 years old? Suppose I've been busy bringing up children but this is my all time favourite film.


No mobiles or internet in 1994 as far as my world revolved (even now my phone is 8 years old) but I'm looking at how much the actors have aged over the past 20 years on Otta's Daily Mail link.

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