Tell me your age bracket without telling me your age bracket.

We had a rotary phone growing up, people's hair was big and their shoulders were padded. People cringed when their house had an avocado bath suite.

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Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 1y

We're usually the tech support for generations before and after us

benelbow@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They're you're fault haha!

benelbow@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

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.

iii@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y

There's this new thing called pokemon

trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y

I have to feed my Tamagotchi!

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

I grew up playing flash games on the Internet

Goretantath@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

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

semisimian@startrek.website · 5 pts · 1y

I have copies of the same bands' albums in four different formats.

Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 1y

God I'd forgotten they existed! Blast from the past

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have not met anyone younger than me who remembers the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y

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

peaches@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

I played Mortal Kombat in highschool in MS-DOS.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

Worried about being drafted in the immediate aftermath of 9/11

ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

Old enough to know questions like this are often used for doxxing purposes, young enough to have so little to live for that I just simply don't care.

megane_kun@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

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".

EDIT:

Typos, missing punctuation and other mistakes.

GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

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

Jhex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Michael Jackson was black when I first learned he existed

sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

The new SpongeBob has no spirit