Ask Lemmy

I still call them Opel Fruits

The first CD, in fact the first piece of music, I ever bought was Green Day Dookie.

Played in the creek (pronounced crik), caught pollywogs and toads and snakes. Walked barefoot to the farm down the street to buy sweet corn. Heard stories about my uncles finding dynamite in a cave near the railroad and bringing it home and passing it around at school before the fire department confiscated it all as well as stories of my great grandma holding my great grandpa at shotgun point till he did the chore he'd said he'd get to months before. I remember the internet screaming at me when I picked up the home phone. My dad's first cell phone was a Nokia brick. The first Galaxy smart phone came out the year I graduated highschool.

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.

There were no TV commercials on Sunday.

my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits

The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.

I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.

I also know what a VCR is.

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

I don’t remember where I was on 9/11 but I was drinking a lot back then so that doesn’t say much.

I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler

I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.