One Crazy Detail About ‘The Wonder Years’ Is Blowing People’s Minds

“The Wonder Years aired from 1988 and 1993 and depicted the years between 1968 and 1973. When I watched the show, it felt like it was set in a time long ago. If a new Wonder Years premiered today, it would cover the years between 2000 and 2005.” https://t.co/n2JOHQ5svD

— Emily Guskin (@EmGusk) January 2, 2020

How to feel old: The Wonder Years aired from 1988 to 1993 and depicted the years between 1968 & 1973. Watching the show, it felt like it was set in a time long ago. If a new Wonder Years premiered today, it would cover the years between 2000 and 2005. https://t.co/XUsrTswdJP

— Alison Loat (@AlisonLoat) January 2, 2020

I think of this all the time. It has helped color my own thinking as a historian—how memories of relatively recent histories are perceived differently by different age cohorts. It’s so weird and fascinating.

— Peter A. Shulman ? (@pashulman) January 2, 2020

My grandparents lost a son in the Vietnam War. I remember watching the ‘Wonder Years’ with my mom and she cried; it was almost exactly 20 years since his death. It seemed impossibly forever ago to me as a child. A new “Wonder Years” would encapsulate 9/11 and now I understand.

— Dmitri Mendeleev (@PeriodicWeather) January 2, 2020

Watching Back to the Future in the 80s, the 50s also seemed distant – which is how my kids must feel when they watch Stranger Things now (30 ish years in the past).

— Battle of Keren (@KarenLeick) January 2, 2020

Legit disturbed by “if the Wonder Years premiered tomorrow, it would feature the years 2000-2005”. https://t.co/0fDli5NfbE

— Deacon Jawn (@d_conblues) January 2, 2020

This is melting my brain. The difference between 1969 and 1981 should count for 500 years culturally

— Micah Gelman (@mbgelman) January 2, 2020

All simple math…but that Wonder Years shit got me like ?

It’s 2020 and you’re in the future — Wait But Why https://t.co/Lz0C3bGfA0

— Kevin McArdle (@Kevin_McArdle) January 2, 2020

“If a new ‘Wonder Years’ premiered today, it would cover the years between 2000 and 2005.”

This link will ruin your day. But it’s fascinating (h/t @danielmcfadin) https://t.co/sxGi24zA34

— Alan Cavanna (@AlanCavanna) January 2, 2020

I think about this kind of thing all the time. Listening to U2’s early work on a classic rock station now would be like listening to the Glenn Miller Orchestra on a super-oldies station when U2’s early work came out.

— Dave L. (@DLNewRoc) January 2, 2020

I lived the Wonder Years. It amazes me now that when I studied WWII in high school the war had ended only about 20 years before. From my perspective, at the time, it might as well have been a 100 years.

— Sharon (@LAwomanSharon) January 2, 2020

This literally turned my brain inside out.

“The Wonder Years aired from 1988 and 1993 and depicted the years between 1968 and 1973. If a new Wonder Years premiered today, it would cover the years between 2000 and 2005.” https://t.co/flYFzpoM9o

— Jay Martin (@jaymart222) January 2, 2020

Growing up in Colorado, from around 1983-1994 my parents listened to an FM radio station known as “Oldies 105”. Its format was 1960s music. It beat me to hell.
The equivalent “oldies” today is 1990s music.

— Kirk Merritt (@Kirk4Defiance) January 2, 2020

I am older than you but remember figuring this out about Happy Days. It seemed like a show about the distant past, but it premiered in 1974 depicting life in 1955.

— Shannon Smith ??? (@chemom) January 2, 2020

The original “Star Wars” is closer to “Casablanca” than to the new “Star Wars.” @HamillHimself

— Chris Freeman (@drchrisisfree) January 2, 2020

In my brain I still feel like I’m in my 20’s.

This stabbed my brain. https://t.co/T7GaZkYEpB

— Brian Miles (@BrianPMiles) January 2, 2020

So who from Woodstock 99 would replace Joe Cocker? I say Everlast.

— (((Steve Sanders))) (@stevefenway) January 2, 2020

WHY DID YOU TWEET THIS ?

— Laura Michalski (@MichalskiLaura) January 2, 2020