Ask Lemmy

First video card upgrade was a 3dfx voodoo 2

First computer only had a teletype, no screen. Oh and paper tape memory.

Old enough to have seen The Phantom Menace in theaters, young enough to have liked Jar Jar Binks

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) was my first console. My first PC was a used 486/40 with 8MB of RAM. I was born in between the Challenger shuttle disaster and Chernobyl meltdown.

The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.

I'm so old I've seen dozens of threads like this one.

I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out

I played games on channel 3.

I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.

The apple 2e's in school were great for playing games.

The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.

I was at this concert:

https://youtu.be/WY2p1gSOk3c?feature=shared

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

I still shoot film and I still have a record player.

First smart phone was an iPhone 5S.

Guess my age?

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231 has results of a demographic poll for lemmy.ca.

I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

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My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

Well, let's see.

I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.

Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

Y2K

I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.

I started using computers on windows 10 (I am now a proud Kubuntu user)

I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

I'm almost a full year older than the NES, but almost a year younger than the Famicom.