without saying how old you are, how old are you?

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 remember playing games on channel 3

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes

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I was born in 1983

My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

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I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

Pogs

I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.

I'm so old I've seen dozens of threads like this one.

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

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 saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.

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.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

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 don't remember 9/11

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

Go go Power Rangers!

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.

The Oregon Trail.

I saw AC/DC's second London gig in a pub

I bought music on cassette and again on CD, but never on 8-track.

I am two years older than TCP.

I am quite literally older than the Internet.

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

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

I also know what a VCR is.

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

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

My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

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

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.

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.

Classic movies are in black an white.

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

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

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

I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.

1982

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 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.

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

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

My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.

• 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 have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

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Let me sing you the song of my people:

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.

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.

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

Obligatory modem noises:

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

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I am Toy Story years old

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YouTube didn't exist until after I graduated high school

I smelled like teen spirit.

Born a few months after the first moon landing. Birthday is next week.

I remember when Fox was a brand-new network that only broadcast during specific times of the day in my area.

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

I'm not really a zoomer but I'm also not really a millennial. (and definitely not any other generation)

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was the Special Edition of A New Hope.

I loved Episodes I & II as a kid, but by the time Episode III rolled around I had developed enough appreciation for good screenwriting that I left the theater mildly disappointed.

I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.

I vaguely remember live tv of men walking on the moon. Not the first guy though, I’m not that old

Leaded gasoline, Vietnam war winding down along with Disco.

I'm older than ATX but younger than x86 architecture.

my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits

Played in the creek (pronounced crik), caught pollywogs and toads and snakes. Walked barefoot to the farm down the street to buy sweet corn. Heard stories about my uncles finding dynamite in a cave near the railroad and bringing it home and passing it around at school before the fire department confiscated it all as well as stories of my great grandma holding my great grandpa at shotgun point till he did the chore he'd said he'd get to months before. I remember the internet screaming at me when I picked up the home phone. My dad's first cell phone was a Nokia brick. The first Galaxy smart phone came out the year I graduated highschool.

Challenger exploded on my birthday, I was in either grade 11 or 12.

Analog childhood, digital adulthood

When we were kids the telephone man gave us the secret code you could use to make the phone booth phones call themselves to test the ringer. Loads of fun. I used to wake up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons. I know how to use the yellow pages, and I used to be the kid who would help you plug in and program all the old people’s tv and vcr and cable boxes. Most of the neighborhood kids had to be on by the time that one streetlight came on at dusk, but I was allowed to stay out later but usually went home too because it was boring after everyone else went home. We used to play tag football in the middle of the street and I was the wide receiver because I was the third or fourth oldest and the oldest two were always the quarterbacks. We used to all hang out at little jimmys house who was 8 or 10 years old because he had Mike Tyson’s punch out on NES. If one of our parents needed cigarettes we could walk up to buy them as long as we had a note from our mom.

I remember exactly where I was & what I was doing when 9/11 happened. I was in middle school, science class, it promptly ended & we watched the live footage play on a CRT TV.

My first console controller only had one button, audio cassette storage was my first pirating medium, I remember when doctors used to smoke in the examination room.

I remember playing Rollercoaster tycoon on windows 95.

There were no TV commercials on Sunday.

All the neighborhood kids came to play Pong at my house

I watched my Saturday morning cartoons on betamax and I had transformers g1, gijoe, and heman on all of them

“By the power of Greyskull!”

I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.

If that doesn't do it I don't know what will.

Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.

I have the touch. I have the power.

Ghostbusters

I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.

"Alpha! Rita has escaped! Recruit a team of teens with attitude!"

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I'm as old as the NES.

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

You tryin' to rizz my skibiddi up? Aye? In ohio no less.

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.

Well, let's see.

I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.

Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

I was born in 1978

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids in an arcade, before kindergarten.

Pokemon Red was an amazing part of my childhood

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

🎵 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. 🎵

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money

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