As notes:

The list was first developed in 1998 by Tom McBride and Ron Nief, faculty members at Beloit, with the goal of helping the school's professors avoid "dated references" and understand the perspective of the next generation.

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This particular mindset captures the generation of souls born in 1992, whose fingers never touched a rotary dial, who've never written a paper in cursive, who never had to choose from less than 100 channels of television, and who have never owned a watch because they get the time of day from their cell phones.

This got me thinking about my own mindset and those of my contemporaries -- at least, the ones who are still alive and not drooling into their pillows at the Bidawee Retirement Community and Knitting Sweatshop.