Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.
There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.
I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.
The Oregon Trail.
8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.
Classic movies are in black an white.
I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.
I also know what a VCR is.
I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.
I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.
When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.
My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack
I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.
My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.
Obligatory modem noises:
dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....
Im sim city old. The first one.
Edit ok actually older than that.
My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.
I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.
During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."
I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.
If that doesn't do it I don't know what will.
Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.
I saw Return of The Jedi in the theaters, as well as The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and The Hound. Oh and I vaguely remember watching a 2 hour long advertisement for The Power Glove, called "The Wizard."
I have also paid $0.60 per gallon for gasoline.
I got my first dick pic scanned. Like, bro literally slapped his sausage in a scanner, shut the lid, and sat there while the light scanned up and down. All whilst maintaining a hard on.
A:/INSTALL.EXE
Lycos search on Netscape Navigator
I played games on channel 3.
I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.
The apple 2e's in school were great for playing games.
The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.
Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.
Floppy floppies we're the first I touched. Internet access didn't exist.
I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.
I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.
I remember when Fox was a brand-new network that only broadcast during specific times of the day in my area.
If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool
I'm not really a zoomer but I'm also not really a millennial. (and definitely not any other generation)
I got screwed between gen x and millennials. We're generationless middle people. Let's start a club and exclude all the normies.
I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.
- SP: 2
- LP: 4
- SLP: 6
SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.
I am Toy Story years old
I smelled like teen spirit.
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