Without stating your age, how old are you?
I have two answers for you.
1: I have acne I'm too old for and gray hairs I'm too young for.
2: I have the depression of a millennial and the uninhibited madness of a zoomer.
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1: I have acne I'm too old for and gray hairs I'm too young for.
2: I have the depression of a millennial and the uninhibited madness of a zoomer.
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My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.
I wasn't banned from watching South Park when it started. Even my 3 -year-old at the time brother was allowed to watch it with me. But I was banned from watching Ren and Stimpy several years earlier which disappointed me at the time but in hindsight I support wholeheartedly.
Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.
I clearly remember it, I think you might be my little brother’s age.
Maaaaan somebody reminded me this existed last week and I had to bust these out and give em a spin
Real talk, if you have young kids and DosBox or something, soooo many of those old games hold up.
Mine loved the OG Carmen San Diego games, though there were a couple short history lessons to understand some parts. Didn't quite clue into the 'use the dossier* to determine matches for warrants without a time penalty' trick that earned me a pizza party back in the day, lol.
*I don't remember what it's called, the file with all of the VILE agents
I have been born
I haven't died yet
I'd guess you're at least 7 years old.
That's correct! Now excuse me, mum says I better get up or be late.
I have a child old enough to vote
In which god forsaken country are voting rights dependent on children's age?
Uhm...
Uh, most of the countries I know you need to be an adult to vote aka 18.
(I am aware, it's the same here - I was just making a joke by splitting up the sentence differently)
This was my first console
Well, that beats my 2600.
If it helps this was my second one…
(a sears 2600 clone)
Pong, right?
Yep. And a bunch of other games like hockey and what not
I remember Y2K
I worked on preventing it.
thanks
You are welcome! I had two, very simple, jobs doing grunt work, but Y2K updates got me into tech.
FIST BUMP. It was my first IT job and mostly monkey work, but my best friend and I were stoked to break into tech. Next job was also Y2K updates. And I just realized I had two jobs in mitigation.
I remember the fuck-it-do-all-the-drugs NYE parties...
Watching for planes falling out of the skies.
I used to type Load ""
LOAD "BLAH" ,8 ,1. Just kidding, I only has a cassette drive. :(
Did you learn to splice with a razor blade and scotch tape?
I saw star wars at the cinema when it was first released
I envy you.
How was it?
I didn’t really understand it. I was about eight I think.
Same! But I was four. And I went to the theater without my parents. Just some neighborhood girl rode me there on her bicycle handlebars. True story.
Edit for afterthought: I still don't understand Star Wars. (Does ANYONE?)
I was 6, didn't give a shit. Later became a huge fan.
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Tiny me's first computer game ever played:
Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.
I was at 3.7 billion. I could rant all night, but so many of our problems are from explosive population growth. Humans never developed political and social systems to deal with it, and we sure as hell didn't evolve for it.
I did my part! No kids.
I got my 2, which is a statistical net loss.
You're old
Be kind rewind
Before I went to college, going to Blockbuster was its own activity
I think we used to switch to channel 3 to play video games and movies.
What is that?
That's a portable CD player with a tape adapter in its headphone jack. The tape is the played by the tape deck of your car stereo. This is for when you didn't have a brand new car with a CD player in the dash or the trunk, but you still had a portable CD player.
Ahhhh I see now— for a moment for me it looked like one of those AI gen images where it looks like something but the closer you look it isn’t anything— used to have a tape to aux converter in my car for this purpose.
When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.
For some reason after Gorky Park in Winds of change I thought they were east german.
As a non-native, I was a bit too old to find the lyrics and get them. After that, it was quite weird to me, but apart from the name being a bit off, I never heard of Gorky Park before.
your bottle of ibuprofen in your bag is getting low, you better refill it with the big bottle from the kitchen cabinet before tomorrow.
Fraggle Rock
Back when I was a kid, The Simpsons was a really good show
When you were too young to recall it, the same was absolute trash. 🤷🏼♂️
I loved the star wars films that came out while I was a child, but the ones that were made after that are really bad.
So you're in your either in your mid 50s or wrong.
We're about the same age.
I was alive for 9/11 but have no memory of it
I got my first cell phone before the iPhone was first released
Choplifter
I was there, at Cape Canaveral, in the audience, when Challenger exploded. I had just finished Jr. Space Camp, and decided that if stuff like that was gonna happen while I was around NASA, then maybe I should look for an alternative career path.
When I learned that MacGyver was American, knowing full well I saw him speak French in every episode, it made me very angry for some reason.
That's a really good one.
Waiting for your favourite song to be played on the radio and pressing record and pause on the cassette recorder at the exact right time. Massive feelings of win.
I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.
Here's my seat on the bus.
LOL thanks whipper snapper
Came home and the family was all excited, asking me about it. 6-yo me, "Meh. It was OK I guess." Went on to become a fanatic.
Oh man, I was obsessed. They released an LP of the movie, kinda like a modern Graphics Audio production but with the original cast. I played that record hundreds of times. I was six at the time too! Now I need to see if I can't find anything about that record. I'd forgotten all about it for years.
Found it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Star_Wars
I was born during the One Child Policy in mainland China (I was the unlawful second-born child in my family)
My schools did active shooter drills when I was in K-12 school in the US
My youngest kid just graduated highschool. Pell Grants literally covered my tuition (nothing else, but the classes) for college.
Also I know what this is
Took one of those to the office and asked around. Surprisingly, some of the people around my age didn't get it and a couple of young people did!
Had stacks of those things!
White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid
I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.
We used slide rules in high school physics class. I still have mine.
I vividly remember seeing a show on TV very young, in a hotel room. It just happened to be on. When I saw it again, older, I realized it was the TNG pilot.
Super Mario World was the first video game I played.
irc
I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
I'm still waiting for my hoverboard, but at least I'm unlikely to live to see the collapse of civilization?
How do you figure that second one? Do you have less than a couple of years left?
It's gonna take longer than that... but not by much.
My life began at the end of history.
About as old as [joke redacted] was
I was in high school on 9/11/2001. I remember another teacher ran into my classroom and told my teacher to turn the news on just as first period was ending. The tv was already on in my 2nd period class. I watched both towers fall on live tv. It was... an experience, that's for sure.
Side note, my physics teacher was in the Navy Reserves and was called into active duty. My physics class was "taught" with varying degrees of success by substitutes for the rest of the semester. That was an interesting class, and for the wrong reasons.
This feels like "tell me how old you are while telling me how old you are"
I was hungover, laying on my office floor praying to just die. Strange enough, our work orders from the ISP weren't ready, rare event. So everyone was watching TV as it went down. Still remember the mood instantly shifting from, "What a tragedy.", to, "Holy shit!! We're under attack!"
I still love gorilla.bat.
I'm bald on top and my scalp looks like a brain from long Hulkamania, and PacMan fever destroyed my grip strength.
263660769 - that's a number that people could use to talk with me in a specific way when I was 14. Neither my parents nor anyone in my school had that number and the vast majority of them would not know what it was either.
But that's only true because I lived in a very small town in the middle of nowhere in South America. For a similar experience somewhere "more modern", that number would have had to have at least one less digit.
ICQ?
Yes!
Uh oh!
If I'm right you are late 30s to early 40s. Either Elder Millenial or the last vestiges of Gen X. A Xennial if you will.
9 digits = definitely still in their 30s
Yep, but not for long.
I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.
My pizza place had a sit down Mrs Pac-Man, a stand up Galaga, Tempest and Centipede, and a western themed pinball machine.
My dad had to remove me from the cinema when we saw Toy Story on release because I found Sid's vivsected toys too frightening
Bionicle.
Younger than Star Wars but older than the first flight of a concorde.
I groan when I get up and my back pops when I lean a certain way. I'm way too young for those.
when I was a kid we didn't come home until dinner or fear the belt from dad
the song I lost my virginity to was Lady D'Arbanville, it was an older lady that was almost 30 years older than me. she wouldn't stop speaking French the whole time even though she knew English.
Sweet leaded gasoline
In the year 2000 I was half the age I am now.
Can you kick? and stretch? and kick?
Was a little kid when lawn darts were still legal/available.
i played the shit out of duke nukem 3d. I was a tad too young though
I had the newest MTV Hits on a casette.
My favorite BGS game is Oblivion.
My rollerskates had 4 wheels and looked like tennis shoes. A cartoon named Thundarr helped develop my lifelong love of post apocalyptic media. Mtv played music videos, all day. I watched the pilot of my favorite t.v. show ever after work one night. "You exist here"
🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵
Gameboy Color
I recently found a couple old PC games I used to play as a child and thought was part of one or more "1000-in-1 Games" discs. They were 3-D Ultra Minigolf Deluxe and 3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers.
One of my absolute FAVORITE edutainment games was Franklin the Turtle Clubhouse Adventures.
I got to experience having shelves of VHS tapes alongside a drawer of them, and also having DVDs at the same time. Hell, my family even has netflix back when they mailed DVDs and I think we used to still have one or two of them from back then for a long while, but they probably got lost when we had to move.
I can remember my family renting games from Blockbuster.
Edit:
Pretty sure we had all or most of the 3•2•1 Penguins DVDs since my parents, like most every parent who let their kid watch it, loved VeggieTales and thought that Big Idea would have another big hit. VeggieTales is by far basically the only Christian cartoon I could ever recommend and I'm pretty sure I saw every one of the originals on VHS.
I graduated high school during Covid
Go Thunderbirds
Thunder Cats
What’s a thunder cat ?
Ancient cartoon that also had a character partially responsible for furry fandom. Cheetara.
Ford... Carter
Three Mile Island
Iran Hostage crisis
Launch of Columbia
Challenger
Chernobyl
So you actually get most of the lyrics in Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire?"
OMG... That's brilliant. Wish I had thought of it.
I was 6 years old when Optimus Prime died for our sins.
genz but have used floppy disk on PC and cassetes for music, have played with my ancient mouse's balls, fixed tv/monitor by violence, have been traumatized by several jumpscares found in random .swf file in a sea of .swf files back when I couldn't read english.
Gen Z, or those born between the late 90s and around 2010.
It can be applied more broadly to mean youths in general though, just as boomer gets used by the younger crowd to mean anyone older than them.
Gen Z
I told all my friends on AIM to create MySpace accounts and add me when I was 18.
mighty
morphin
power
rangers
We used to drink Towne Club soda out of glass bottles.
I remember where I was when Reagan was shot.
longcat is loooooong
Cell phones were never to be seen on high school property. You're allowed to have them for emergencies, but you can never whip it out. If a teacher or administrator saw it, it would be taken away until end of the day.
The information age is my brother
D’arcy de Farcy
I was alive for but don't remember 9/11. Some might call me a Zennial.
The cartoons I watched as a kid were deliberately gross and ugly looking.
When I started school my year group would use encyclopaedias and the school library to look up information for projects, by the end of primary school (elementary for the yanks) we were using Google in the school computer room.
Goo goo ga ga
You Can't Do That On Television
@[email protected] is old enough to be my grandfather
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