My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.

Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.

I have been born

I haven't died yet

I have a child old enough to vote

This was my first console

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Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

I used to type Load ""

Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.

I remember Y2K

Be kind rewind

When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.

I saw star wars at the cinema when it was first released

Fraggle Rock

Waiting for your favourite song to be played on the radio and pressing record and pause on the cassette recorder at the exact right time. Massive feelings of win.

I was there, at Cape Canaveral, in the audience, when Challenger exploded. I had just finished Jr. Space Camp, and decided that if stuff like that was gonna happen while I was around NASA, then maybe I should look for an alternative career path.

I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.

When I learned that MacGyver was American, knowing full well I saw him speak French in every episode, it made me very angry for some reason.

Choplifter

I was alive for 9/11 but have no memory of it

I got my first cell phone before the iPhone was first released

I loved the star wars films that came out while I was a child, but the ones that were made after that are really bad.

Back when I was a kid, The Simpsons was a really good show

I was born during the One Child Policy in mainland China (I was the unlawful second-born child in my family)

My schools did active shooter drills when I was in K-12 school in the US

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

I was in high school on 9/11/2001. I remember another teacher ran into my classroom and told my teacher to turn the news on just as first period was ending. The tv was already on in my 2nd period class. I watched both towers fall on live tv. It was... an experience, that's for sure.

Side note, my physics teacher was in the Navy Reserves and was called into active duty. My physics class was "taught" with varying degrees of success by substitutes for the rest of the semester. That was an interesting class, and for the wrong reasons.

263660769 - that's a number that people could use to talk with me in a specific way when I was 14. Neither my parents nor anyone in my school had that number and the vast majority of them would not know what it was either.

But that's only true because I lived in a very small town in the middle of nowhere in South America. For a similar experience somewhere "more modern", that number would have had to have at least one less digit.

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard, but at least I'm unlikely to live to see the collapse of civilization?

I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.

I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

My dad had to remove me from the cinema when we saw Toy Story on release because I found Sid's vivsected toys too frightening

I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.

My youngest kid just graduated highschool. Pell Grants literally covered my tuition (nothing else, but the classes) for college.

Also I know what this is