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My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

The Oregon Trail.

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.

I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.

I also know what a VCR is.

Classic movies are in black an white.

I played games on channel 3.

I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.

The apple 2e's in school were great for playing games.

The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.

I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.

I learned to write code on a TI99-4A

I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.

One time when I was 10 my teacher rolled in a TV and made us watch some building fall over on the news. I thought it was boring and wanted to go back to learning stuff. But then afterwards all the grown-ups, and I mean like, all the grown-ups got really really angry and weird, like I would say things like that I don't want to knock over other people's buildings and they said that meant I was a terrorist.

8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.

There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.

The first CD, in fact the first piece of music, I ever bought was Green Day Dookie.

I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.

I have videos of me as kid on 8mm. I spent my bonds I got at birth on a c64. I was one of the "cool" kids with a pager in school.

My grandma called the local TV studio and put me on the phone because I wanted to talk to someone because I was pissed off Tom and Jerry wasn't on because some guy named Ronald Reagan was on TV interrupting my favorite cartoons.

I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.

Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.

My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack

My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.

Obligatory modem noises:

dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

1982

• SP: 2
• LP: 4
• SLP: 6

SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.

I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.

Lycos search on Netscape Navigator

I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

I'm "I Want to Hold Your Hand" old.

A:/INSTALL.EXE

I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.

Old enough to have seen The Phantom Menace in theaters, young enough to have liked Jar Jar Binks

I got my first dick pic scanned. Like, bro literally slapped his sausage in a scanner, shut the lid, and sat there while the light scanned up and down. All whilst maintaining a hard on.

I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.

Let me sing you the song of my people:

Boop beap boop boop krssssh GANG GANG GAN ssssSSS sssSSS sssSSS ieeee chchchCHCHCHCHCH SHSHSH

During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."

My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.

I saw Return of The Jedi in the theaters, as well as The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and The Hound. Oh and I vaguely remember watching a 2 hour long advertisement for The Power Glove, called "The Wizard."

I have also paid $0.60 per gallon for gasoline.

If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool