Take a look back at a long lost world

It is truly terrifying to think that this year’s college entrants were born in the late 90s, making them younger than your first mobile phone. Ed Power looks back at a long lost world    

IMAGINE. This year’s crop of college entrants were born in the late 90s — making them younger (approximately) than your first mobile phone, the earliest Harry Potter novel and Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

More disturbing yet, they have grown up thinking of grunge as something from the pre-history of popular culture and will struggle to conceive of a time when Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin were considered credible heartthrobs. For those hurtling towards their dotage, it is a reminder our own youth is departed, never to return.