I remember playing games on channel 3

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes

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

I was born in 1983

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

LOAD “*”,8,1

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

Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

Pogs

I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

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

Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

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Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.

Old enough that I don't follow trends anymore and I just kind of do my own thing.

My first computer game was a book with the code in the book that you had to type in.

I participated in FidoNet.

I saw labyrinth in the theaters

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 cried when my Tamagotchi "pet" died.

My first coding class was Cobol and we used punch-cards.

(Side story, nothing strikes a feeling of dread more than the sound of cards being shuffled behind you.)

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

I saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.

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.

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

I don't remember 9/11

I am two years older than TCP.

I am quite literally older than the Internet.

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

My first console was the Atari 2600, my first computer ran on MS-DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch drive, monochrome CRT and no mouse. My intro to Windows was version 3.1.

I saw AC/DC's second London gig in a pub

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

I bought music on cassette and again on CD, but never on 8-track.

I had "The Box" which gave us cable TV channels we weren't supposed to have.

My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

The Oregon Trail.

When I first saw The Lion King in the cinema, my best friend and I couldn't stop crying at the Mufasa scene.

We were probably taken to a colourful McDonalds, to be cheered up, however we did not use the play room as someone was having a birthday there.

Go go Power Rangers!

When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.

I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.

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.

There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.

8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.

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

I also know what a VCR is.

I learned to write code on a TI99-4A

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.

I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.

Classic movies are in black an white.

Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.

My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.

Obligatory modem noises:

dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

1982

My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack

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.

I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.

• SP: 2
• LP: 4
• SLP: 6

SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.

I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.

Lycos search on Netscape Navigator

I saw Return of The Jedi in the theaters, as well as The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and The Hound. Oh and I vaguely remember watching a 2 hour long advertisement for The Power Glove, called "The Wizard."

I have also paid $0.60 per gallon for gasoline.

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Let me sing you the song of my people:

Boop beap boop boop krssssh GANG GANG GAN ssssSSS sssSSS sssSSS ieeee chchchCHCHCHCHCH SHSHSH

I got my first dick pic scanned. Like, bro literally slapped his sausage in a scanner, shut the lid, and sat there while the light scanned up and down. All whilst maintaining a hard on.

I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.

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

My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.

During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."

I'm "I Want to Hold Your Hand" old.

I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.

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

I smelled like teen spirit.

If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool

YouTube didn't exist until after I graduated high school

I remember when Fox was a brand-new network that only broadcast during specific times of the day in my area.

Born a few months after the first moon landing. Birthday is next week.

LOAD “*” ,8,1

I am Toy Story years old

I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was the Special Edition of A New Hope.

I loved Episodes I & II as a kid, but by the time Episode III rolled around I had developed enough appreciation for good screenwriting that I left the theater mildly disappointed.

I'm not really a zoomer but I'm also not really a millennial. (and definitely not any other generation)

I'm older than ATX but younger than x86 architecture.

Analog childhood, digital adulthood

I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.

If that doesn't do it I don't know what will.

Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.

I have the touch. I have the power.

All the neighborhood kids came to play Pong at my house

My first console controller only had one button, audio cassette storage was my first pirating medium, I remember when doctors used to smoke in the examination room.

I vaguely remember live tv of men walking on the moon. Not the first guy though, I’m not that old

I watched my Saturday morning cartoons on betamax and I had transformers g1, gijoe, and heman on all of them

Leaded gasoline, Vietnam war winding down along with Disco.

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

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.

I remember playing Rollercoaster tycoon on windows 95.

“By the power of Greyskull!”

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

You tryin' to rizz my skibiddi up? Aye? In ohio no less.

I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.

"Alpha! Rita has escaped! Recruit a team of teens with attitude!"

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Ghostbusters

Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.

I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.

I was using 5,25″ discs.

When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids in an arcade, before kindergarten.

🎵 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. 🎵

I was born in 1978

Pokemon Red was an amazing part of my childhood

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?

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement

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

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

I'm as old as the NES.

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

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

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

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.

I was still a kid when my dad brought home a brand new Apple II. Before that computer appeared in his home office (and in my live, as I used that Apple so much more than he ever did ;)), I learned to type on my granddad's typewriter.

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

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 watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money

I got one of the first home Pong machines for my 7th birthday

AIM away messages and the passive flex of who has the best 'buddyprofile' that may or may not link to a livejournal or xanga page

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

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

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First manned space flight.

My first modem was 2400 baud.

i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.

16ish

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

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

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 still call them Opel Fruits

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:

A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,

B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and

C) The Littlest Hobo

Grew up using Vista

As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).

Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.

I still feel shy when buying beer

Old.

I'm barely still a Millenial. Which is kind of cool. I don't like the "generation names" before or after that much, and I liked that I grew up with non-invasive tech and non-existent smartphones during school. I was able to grow up with tech but none of the tech I dislike today. Also, tech was still easier to understand back then. I was able to learn how to create web sites for example when HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CGI was still in its infancy and not very complex yet. Of course I learned the growing complexitty as it all developed but the point is that it kind of grew with me. Which probably made several things easier to get into in the first place. Also, I still grew up with almost forgotten values such as privacy, and my whole youth life (as well as dumb things you did when young) isn't available online and therefore "gone". I kind of like it that way.

My first gaming console was N64 and I remember my parent's paid 700 USD for our 2 bedroom apartment in decent area.

My first computer was a Sinclair

TVs have a UHF switch so I can finally watch more channels. I really hate putting tinfoil on the rabbit ears and opening the window to sometimes get these new channels though, but they work better if I hold onto the antenna. It's hard to see what I'm watching if I do this, but at least I can mostly hear what they're saying, and the picture is dark anyway, so even if I could see at this angle, it would be too dark and snowy.

When I'd get to kindergarten too early, the teacher let us watch some cable tv. It was usually showing the original xmen cartoon.

First video card upgrade was a 3dfx voodoo 2

I remember watching the Berlin Wall coming down on the news. I don't remember the Challenger explosion (edit: though I was alive for it, to be clear). I was out on my own during 9/11, worried as hell about being drafted. Whether or not I am gen-x depends upon which of the dates for its end you choose.

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

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

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 owned computers before this, but I remember buying my first PC, a 286, at a flea market for $20 with a coffee can full of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

Vic-20, Atari 600 XL, zx-81.

In that order

I knew about Warren Robinnet before Ready Player One

My childhood is having Carameldansen be a popular meme, and then having that promptly taken away.

EDIT: I also witnessed the birth and the death of "Vine".

I'm the same age as DOOM

Mmm-bop

I was alive when the when there were more than 8 elevens.

I saw this on Tumblr and thought of this thread. 😃

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

I'm older than YouTube.

You could only get B&W Tvs at the store.

The first movie I saw was The Muppet Movie. First run in the theatre.

I was born in the year when John Lennon died.

I tried to make a portal to Aether.

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

First smart phone was an iPhone 5S.

Guess my age?

Grif:

It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.

Simmons:

...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?

https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=Wz217ihcQ2VYjqWc

My first 7" single was Slade-Far far away

I was sixteen days old when the world ended and we were all thrown back into the stone age.

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

I have no idea about most of theese comments.

I’m old but a young co-worker got me onto Lemmy.

I was at this concert:

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

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

one of my most cherished childhood games is crazy frog racer.

I remember watching One Piece Skypiea arc on TV (german broadcast) in the morning, cartoon network kids next door, ATLA, Danny Phantom.
My first console was the Nintendo DS and I played 'Finding Nemo' on the OG xbox.

I was born the year that the first version of Google was also born.

I'm old enough to watch the Bills lose 4 in a row but young enough to barely remember wide right.

My first game console was an Atari 2600

Four words: Sonic the Hedgehog One

I got an NES, because I thought the robot was cool.

Y2K

Aw dude, four strength four stam leather belt?

AUGHHH

Level 18??

AUGH UGHHH

https://youtu.be/GSRG0TqxLWc?si=KBcR7tYdFRxi2lm1

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.

I was born right before the new millennium.

old enough to remember musically but not vine

How old do you think I am?

I was born the same year Pizza Hut introduced Stuffed Crust pizza!

I used my fake ID to buy Hpnotiq at the club because I was young and impressionable

Google IPO

I owned an 8 track player.