30 things that will make you feel old

An email that's gone viral drives home some hard facts but also takes you right back in time.

If you've probably not received the email so far, you've definitely missed out on something.

The message that has been doing the rounds on email as well as the BlackBerry Messenger lists out 30 things that will make you feel old. The source of this email/message is the extremely funny blog: vadakkus.com!

It includes among other things some hard facts like the number of years since Pierce Brosnan last acted as James Bond, it reminds us how old Arnold Schwarzenegger is and that Macaulay Culkin is no longer that adorable child, he is 30!

We thought of sharing the list with you, our readers:

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Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge was released 16 years ago.

The SRK-Kajol starrer first hit the screens on October 20, 1995, went on to establish Shah Rukh Khan as the indisputable king of Bollywood and become the longest running film in the history of Indian cinema at a single theatre -- Maratha Mandir in Mumbai

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Well on August 24, 2001 to be precise and it began retailing on October 25 that year.

Many machines in India continue to work on XP even as its successor, Microsoft Vista came under serious criticism.

Remember all that hooplah about the new millennium and techies going bonkers over 'the Y2K problem' and the brouhaha about entering the new millenium? Well yeah it's all a thing of the past!

Five Point Someone released in 2004 followed by One Night @ the Call Center (in 2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (in 2008) and 2 States (in 2009).

Two of these were made into Hindi movies. One Night... was made into the immensely forgettable Hello and Five Point Someone was made into 3 Idiots.

That movie was Die Another Day and introduced Halle Berry to the collective Indian consciousness

A certain Atal Behari Vajpayee had inaugurated the first line of the Delhi on December 24, 2002 -- a day before his birthday making it only the second underground rapid transit system in the country, after the Kolkata Metro.

Vajpayee has since been retired and his party, the BJP was all but wiped out in the last general elections.

The tragedy that marked the beginning of the new millennium will perhaps never be forgotten. As the two towers came crumbling down, the world changed in ways that no one had expected.

Yep! It has been that long since we saw those groundbreaking special effects in the movie.

Keanu Reeves is 46 today and perhaps counts the Matrix trilogy as the last real taste of success in his life.

Laurence Fishburne, Neo's mentor in the movie has had a successful stint in CSI, which he quit earlier this month to return to movies. He plans to produce a movie based on the novel The Alchemist.

Two most recognisable humanitarians across cultures died barely days apart.

Lady Diana died in a car crash on August 31, 1997 and Mother Teresa on September 5 the same year.

That happened in 1994 to be precise, which would make it 17 years actually! Of the two hotties -- Sushmita Sen is now 35 and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, 37 -- one is already a mother and another is on her way to becoming one.

Not many may know but the version we saw on DD was in fact a Japanese anime.

The title track however was by Vishal Bharadwaj with lyrics by Gulzar. Nana Patekar did the voiceover for Sher Khan

Perhaps the poster boy of everything bad that can happen to children exposed to showbiz, Macaulay Culkin did little else worth mentioning besides smoking and snorting after Home Alone that released in 1990 -- more than 20 years ago!

Now that's another film, which turned two decades old. Its prequel was released in 1984, which makes it 27 years old.

Edward Furlong who portrayed kid John Connor in part 2 is 33 now.

Perhaps the most memorable of all the actors to play James Bond, Sean Connery went on to have a successful movie career even after his stint in the franchise. Connery will turn 81 on August 25.

Think of it, the youngest Spice Girl is 35, the oldest Backstreet Boy 39, Gwen Stefani is 41 and Madonna she's 52

Some of you may have well been running around in your school chaddis when Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first hit the bookstores

September 22, 1994 was the day when the popular sitcom went on air and took the world by storm.

The six friends have since moved on to do other things -- most famous among them being Jennifer Aniston who was briefly married to Brad Pitt.

Aniston is now 42, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are 47, Matt LeBlanc is 43, Matthew Perry, 41 and David Schwimmer is 44.

The floppy disc, VHS tapes and walkmans -- the very things we thought were the best things to happen to us while growing up -- have all but faded out of public memory now.

On July 20, we celebrated the 32nd anniversary of Neil Armstrong and co's moon landing. Later this year -- on September 9, Akshay Kumar will celebrate turn 44.

Salman Rushdie's Saleem Sinai was born on the stroke of the midnight on August 15, 1947. Arnold Schwarzenegger though was born about 16 days before India became free -- on July 30. That would make him 64 years old not that it stopped him (or any man) from philandering!

Unless of course you're in Maharashtra, in which case you cannot drink. Then again we suppose that's a good think because that should hopefully make driving and voting a safer process!

Illustration: Uttam Ghosh

Now THAT is really putting things in perspective. Actually everyone we know here is older than Beiber.

Remember that story about three guys and a road trip to Goa? Well that was ten years ago -- in August 2001 to be precise. The other Aamir Khan film that put India on the world map also completed ten years. That film was Lagaan.

The man who taught India to dream and echoed the sentiments of hundreds of thousands of Indians when he famously told the Joint Session of the US Congress and India, "India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere, we are impatient. I am young and I too have a dream."

Gandhi was killed by a human bomb on May 21, 1991 a little over two decades ago. On August 20 this year, he would have been 67!

Arguably the most popular number in nigh clubs across the country, Bryan Adams' Summer of 69 was recorded and released in June 1985 when most of us were probably still sucking our thumbs.

Well, actually some of them even have kids of their own! Which is kinda scary.

Yep! And Orkut has been around for 9. Anyone remember ICQ any more?

Zen -- an acronym for Zero Engine Noise -- was first introduced in 1993 and discontinued in 2006. Indica, its first real rival hit the roads in 1998 and its variations continue to zip across the country.

Well, she's 23 to be precise. After Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Sana Saeed did a few movie roles before practically disappearing from the scene till recently when she acted in a couple of soap operas -- Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na and Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki.

Ankita Jhaveri, made the nation's heart melt each time she held up the glass and said 'I love you Rasna!'

As it turns out...she's all grown up too!