Teens react to Windows 95, you react to the cruelty of time

For most of recorded history, humanity has reflected on its own mortality via works of great literature or badass paintings of skulls. Adults today have Teens React, which is far more harrowing. Forget Hamlet's soliloquies about this mortal coil of ours; forget Hieronymus Bosch's comic hellscapes; forget Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. All you need to feel the weight of time stamping determinedly on your foot is a YouTube thumbnail of two teenagers gazing with shock and horror at a computer running Windows 95.

Really, do you even need to watch the video above? Do you need to drag out that slow creeping sense of doom? That's what being alone in bed is for, surely.

Here's a brief summary: the teens are amazed at how...

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