I am mid-40s. My daughter is 11. I take her to school, among other driving things, and usually play NPR. Whenever she needs to refer to what she’s hearing – usually to ask if I’ll turn it off so she can pull up some godawful thing where a random Youtuber squawks discordant lyrics to a Pokémon video game score – she calls it a podcast. I’ve stopped correcting her, particularly since most of the “shows” release as podcasts by the next day anyway.

  • LvxferreEnglish
    5•5 days ago

    I’m almost 40yo. I got a few good ones explaining stuff to my nephew, who’s now 16:

    • The opening in my older computer case, covered with cardboard. It was a floppy disk drive that stopped working, the case predates the marriage of his parents.
    • Why we didn’t simply “look it up” to know that the Mew under the truck rumours were false.
    • What the fuck “paint online” is supposed to be. (Tibia, a MMO fairly popular among people in my generation, when we were at his age.)
    • Weird popular names for money, like “pila” (after a politician, Raul Pilla), “cruzeiro” (old coin, replaced by the real in 1993), or “mirreis” (mil reis, after another coin).