I’ve run into it, I think. Went out to eat with the wife and as we walked into the restaurant the hostess just stared at us, then picked up two menus and started walking. We were like, “Do we follow her or…?” And so, sheepishly, we followed her and she did indeed lead us to our seats. It was a couple weeks later when I first heard of the Gen Z stare. I showed my wife and we were like, oh… That was it, we guess.

I’ve seen it a couple other times - recently at CVS the guy at the pharmacy counter would just sort of stare at each customer without really acknowledging them until after they said what they needed. No greeting or pleasantries of any kind, and then he would go into his standard cvs scripted questions.

What is a pulse?

Ass clarinet don’t play itself.

Ass jerky don’t make itself.

I like how it was written in the bird person.

Who are you that is so wise in the ways of science?

Don’t you make my Sunbeam Tiger unaffordable again until after I buy one!

Inconceivable!

I’ve been in IT since 1997. Back in the old times, network blocks were like free. I’ve worked for several places with full /8 public CIDRs - One employer didn’t even NAT the addresses and every PC and server on our network had a public IP address. Firewalls were in place so the IPs weren’t public in the traditional sense, but it was always fun explaining to some new hire why our IP addresses didn’t look like they expected.

I’m jacked! Jacked to the TITS!

ITT: People who don’t know that Windows 95-98 and Windows ME were gui front-ends for a DOS kernel.

Most games of this era wouldn’t run on Windows 2000, the first consumer Windows OS not built on DOS.