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[–] 48 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ah, those were the times. When an armored fish could be an armored fish and you could say proto-vertebrate without offending anyone.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    And you would go home and watch MTV with your friends. Ads suck nowadays... The ads back then were actually entertaining! Every kid wanted a notochord and a segmented jaw.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

    https://xkcd.com/3256/

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, you can still get tomogotchies. My kids each have an original one and one of the new color screen wifi models.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    My wife and I still have our Pogs!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I'm a younger millennial, so my favorite placoderm is from the late devonian

    Dunkleosteus are the best =)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    So LoL actually stands for Lots of Lichens?

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