At a previous IT job, the department had been around quite a while. User accounts didn't provide a start date - at least not one that I could see - but there were ways you could estimate the general length of time the user had been with the department.

A few times, some aspect of those ways would cause a configuration or processing issue. For a while I was the only person handling ... That department. Almost universally, after I fixed and explained the problem, the people having these difficulties would, mostly jokingly, complain about being old. I would say "you're just a legacy user!" (or similar things) It almost always made them laugh.

So - I wouldn't call you old. You're a legacy and I appreciate your tenure!

When I was born, cave painting were already out of fashion so I'm old but not that old

When do you think this comic was made? Can you believe it was 50,000 years ago? Feel old yet?

Just that you are not alone. Take that as comforting or not.

It's hard to say if the comic is supposed to make you feel better about being old. All we can say is that it was written with you specifically in mind.

What is this "feeling better" you speak of?

Reminds me of a school textbook we had. I don't know what the reason was, I guess they would just trying to be funny, but ot had little quotes in the margins that sounded sensible when you first read them, but fell apart if you thought about it for 3 seconds.

One of them was: Cleopatra was closer in time to stegosaurus, then we are now.

22 years were always long, especially when you are talking about the edge times just before there were massive changes.

Take for example 1913 vs 1938 in Austria. (Ok, technically it's 25 years, but it's not much more than 22 years.)

In this time span you had:

• Monarchy, Austrohungarian Empire, at peace
• WW1 starts (1914)
• Austria loses WW1 (1918), Monarchy fails, first Austrian Republic is created.
• First radio station goes live (1924)
• Roaring 20s
• The head of government makes a coup, declaring the Federal State of Austria (Ständestaat), a fascist dictatorship. (1934)
• The Nazis take over Austria (1938)

You can find similar periods of rapid change in every country. For the US look at e.g. the independence war or the civil war. Or the time before, during and after WW2.

Yes, we are in a time of somewhat rapid change, but neither is that unique, nor is it especially rapid.

And the comparison between 1890 and 1960 is entirely invalid. Much more changed in this time frame than between 2004 and 2026.