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We had a rotary phone growing up, people's hair was big and their shoulders were padded. People cringed when their house had an avocado bath suite.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

We're usually the tech support for generations before and after us

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Sweets were rationed when I was born. Sometime later I sold avocado bathroom suites...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They're you're fault haha!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes! Sorry about that... Although there was a grey/brown/sludge colour that was worse than avocado. Real avocados though were rarer than avocado bathroom suites.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

There's this new thing called pokemon

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I have to feed my Tamagotchi!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The first thing I bought with money I earned myself was a Teal Gameboy Color.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I grew up playing flash games on the Internet

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The most popular game machine in my first neighbourhood had unmoveable sprites for picture elements:

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

God I'd forgotten they existed! Blast from the past

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I have copies of the same bands' albums in four different formats.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I played Mortal Kombat in highschool in MS-DOS.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have not met anyone younger than me who remembers the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I went up them twice. Once, they tossed my pocketknife in a basket (full of pocketknives) they kept behind the metal detectors to reclaim when we finished. America is fucking weird

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Worried about being drafted in the immediate aftermath of 9/11

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Old enough to know questions like this are often used for doxxing purposes, young enough to have so little to live for that I just simply don't care.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I remember rotary phones, Saturday morning cartoons, slap bracelets, and a time when there was ONE home videogame system.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Computer class had modules on (MS-)DOS, Lotus 123, Wordstar, and GW-BASIC. The succeeding years, we were taught Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, and Turbo C. In the final year, we had HTML and CSS.

There's a region in my brain still devoted to a few Wordstar keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+KC, ctrl+KK, ctrl+Y) but it's degraded enough that I couldn't remember what they're for.

Oh, Tetris on handhelds was the craze when I was in primary school. They were called by a different name though (copyright reasons, perhaps) but the generic name was "Brick Game".

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Typos, missing punctuation and other mistakes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Michael Jackson was black when I first learned he existed

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The new SpongeBob has no spirit

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