I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."
I'm as old as the NES.
When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.
I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.
Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.
Well, let's see.
I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.
Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?
I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.
I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.
I was using 5,25″ discs.
I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.
When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.
My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM
I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.
Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.
I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.
Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?
My childhood pics are Polaroids.
I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.
That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!
I still call them Opel Fruits
i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
Grew up using Vista
The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.
I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets
I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:
A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,
B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and
C) The Littlest Hobo
I’m curious.
Did you grow up to be a female Canadian border patrol hobo who also knows some medicine?
Elders scrolls v is the first game I played
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