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One time when I was 10 my teacher rolled in a TV and made us watch some building fall over on the news. I thought it was boring and wanted to go back to learning stuff. But then afterwards all the grown-ups, and I mean like, all the grown-ups got really really angry and weird, like I would say things like that I don't want to knock over other people's buildings and they said that meant I was a terrorist.
I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.
If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool
I used to get AOL demo CDs in the mail.
I grew up with an Amiga.
I had a gateway PC with the cow print box.
I was sad when AOL started sending demo CDs instead of the floppy disks :(
I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.
When I'd get to kindergarten too early, the teacher let us watch some cable tv. It was usually showing the original xmen cartoon.
My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.
Obligatory modem noises:
dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....
Meanwhile I was playing Prodigy math game when I was a kid. Get on my level
one of my most cherished childhood games is crazy frog racer.
I owned an 8 track player.
I’m old but a young co-worker got me onto Lemmy.
i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
Men used to wear booty shorts and belly shirts like some women do today; if they bothered with a shirt at all publicly and it was all 100% A OKAY; abs/pecs or not
Younger than the iphone 👶
When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.
and quickly died of dysentery
I have videos of me as kid on 8mm. I spent my bonds I got at birth on a c64. I was one of the "cool" kids with a pager in school.
My grandma called the local TV studio and put me on the phone because I wanted to talk to someone because I was pissed off Tom and Jerry wasn't on because some guy named Ronald Reagan was on TV interrupting my favorite cartoons.
My first modem was 2400 baud.
When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.
Jesus? Is that you Christ?
I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.
Move it football head!
I vaguely remember live tv of men walking on the moon. Not the first guy though, I’m not that old