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Sweets were rationed when I was born. Sometime later I sold avocado bathroom suites...

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Yes! Sorry about that... Although there was a grey/brown/sludge colour that was worse than avocado. Real avocados though were rarer than avocado bathroom suites.

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The first thing I bought with money I earned myself was a Teal Gameboy Color.

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The most popular game machine in my first neighbourhood had unmoveable sprites for picture elements:

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I went up them twice. Once, they tossed my pocketknife in a basket (full of pocketknives) they kept behind the metal detectors to reclaim when we finished. America is fucking weird

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I remember rotary phones, Saturday morning cartoons, slap bracelets, and a time when there was ONE home videogame system.

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Computer class had modules on (MS-)DOS, Lotus 123, Wordstar, and GW-BASIC. The succeeding years, we were taught Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, and Turbo C. In the final year, we had HTML and CSS.

There's a region in my brain still devoted to a few Wordstar keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+KC, ctrl+KK, ctrl+Y) but it's degraded enough that I couldn't remember what they're for.

Oh, Tetris on handhelds was the craze when I was in primary school. They were called by a different name though (copyright reasons, perhaps) but the generic name was "Brick Game".

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Typos, missing punctuation and other mistakes.

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Michael Jackson was black when I first learned he existed

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