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I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn't understand how a blind man could be reading to me.

Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.

I remember playing games on channel 3

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes

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I was born in 1983

My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.

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I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.

Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

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I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

I'm so old I've seen dozens of threads like this one.

Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

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Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.

Old enough that I don't follow trends anymore and I just kind of do my own thing.

My first computer game was a book with the code in the book that you had to type in.

I participated in FidoNet.

I saw labyrinth in the theaters

I used to get AOL demo CDs in the mail.

I grew up with an Amiga.

I had a gateway PC with the cow print box.

My first coding class was Cobol and we used punch-cards.

(Side story, nothing strikes a feeling of dread more than the sound of cards being shuffled behind you.)

I cried when my Tamagotchi "pet" died.

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.

I saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

I was in primary school when my father bought our first computer. A new 286.

The opening scene to Apollo 13 (1995) features a party in Houston with NASA dudes as they gather around the television and Walter Cronkite announces as Neil Armstrong takes his first step on the moon. ( On YouTube )

I was not at that party, but I was at a party in Houston with NASA dudes as we watched the very first moon landing. My dad was a mission control guy with the black horn-rimmed glasses, white shirt and black tie, but Apollo 12, not 11 (Neil Armstrong) or 13 (the one that blew up and barely made it home).

I couldn't walk yet, and I got that the space man on the screen was super important, but at the time I was missing a whole lot of context. The blanks would fill in with time, since the US was super proud of that moment. It's my very first memory.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

My first console was the Atari 2600, my first computer ran on MS-DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch drive, monochrome CRT and no mouse. My intro to Windows was version 3.1.

I don't remember 9/11

I am two years older than TCP.

I am quite literally older than the Internet.

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

Go go Power Rangers!

When I first saw The Lion King in the cinema, my best friend and I couldn't stop crying at the Mufasa scene.

We were probably taken to a colourful McDonalds, to be cheered up, however we did not use the play room as someone was having a birthday there.

I bought music on cassette and again on CD, but never on 8-track.

I had "The Box" which gave us cable TV channels we weren't supposed to have.