Without stating your age, how old are you?

My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.

Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.

I have a child old enough to vote

I have been born

I haven't died yet

This was my first console

I remember Y2K

41

I used to type Load ""

Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.

I saw star wars at the cinema when it was first released

Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

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.

Be kind rewind

Fraggle Rock

Back when I was a kid, The Simpsons was a really good show

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.

I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.

I was alive for 9/11 but have no memory of it

I got my first cell phone before the iPhone was first released

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 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.

Choplifter

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

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

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

We used slide rules in high school physics class. I still have mine.

My life began at the end of history.

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.

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

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.

I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.

irc

About as old as [joke redacted] was

Bionicle.

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard, but at least I'm unlikely to live to see the collapse of civilization?

I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

I still love gorilla.bat.

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.

I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.

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"

1. when I was a kid we didn't come home until dinner or fear the belt from dad

2. 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.

Younger than Star Wars but older than the first flight of a concorde.

Sweet leaded gasoline

I groan when I get up and my back pops when I lean a certain way. I'm way too young for those.

Was a little kid when lawn darts were still legal/available.

In the year 2000 I was half the age I am now.

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.

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.

🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵

My favorite BGS game is Oblivion.

The cartoons I watched as a kid were deliberately gross and ugly looking.

longcat is loooooong

D’arcy de Farcy

🎶🎵🎶🎶12345 678910 1112 doo do dodo doo do

I was 6 years old when Optimus Prime died for our sins.

You Can't Do That On Television

I was alive for but don't remember 9/11. Some might call me a Zennial.

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.

Go Thunderbirds

I graduated high school during Covid

I remember where I was when Reagan was shot.

Ford... Carter

Three Mile Island

Iran Hostage crisis

Launch of Columbia

Challenger

Chernobyl

We used to drink Towne Club soda out of glass bottles.

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.

@leadore@lemmy.world is old enough to be my grandfather

I told all my friends on AIM to create MySpace accounts and add me when I was 18.

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.

Goo goo ga ga

mighty

morphin

power

rangers

The information age is my brother