I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn't understand how a blind man could be reading to me.
Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.
I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn't understand how a blind man could be reading to me.
Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.
to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes
And you're old enough to be online? That doesn't seem correct
(This comment also serves to say how old I am)
Why? 2024-2001=21. That's definitely old enough to be online
Edit: 23, definitely old enough
Hey. Shut up.
The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!
I was born in 1983
Clearly against the spirit of the law but not the letter. I like your style.
My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.
... And that's the same year I graduated high school...
Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.
i can't imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar
I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.
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 don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x
i think the answers lies in the lead/microplastics ratio in your body
Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.
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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.)
I was in primary school when my father bought our first computer. A new 286.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:
Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.
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.
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 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.
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.
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