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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

8th grade teacher got pissed at us on 9/11 because he thought we were laughing at the fact that a plane had hit the WTC. We were laughing because one of the girls didn't know what the WTC was. We turned on the TVs to see the second one get hit.

6th grade we had napster while some of us were still bringing in cases of floppies to play games that'd run on the computers

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The elders had to rewind the movies after watching

[–] courageousstep@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I still own a VCR and a vast collection of VHS tapes. I mean, I also pay for streaming services, but without the old 90s commercials for Disney World and previews for movies that were released in 1995, the movies just don’t hit the same.

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If only the pace of technology was the only paradigm shift to have to worry about since the 80s/90s

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (7 children)

OK, this one kind of hurt a bit. I can't be the only one with a functioning VCR in the room with them right now...

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago
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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Who do you think built Crypto? The millennials were the ones building everything in the last 10-20 years. Be sorry for the boomers. They built the infrastructure we stand on but tech has completely changed since they left the workforce.

And at least when the chase check glitch fad went around we recognized it immediately as a felony. Gen Z jumped right on that grenade.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And Gen X continues to disappear between the cracks. If it weren’t for movies made about us by Baby Boomers, nobody would even know we were here.

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[–] Stepskippin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Y'all don't understand. We had to learn you don't have to rewind DVDs before returning them. It was stressful.

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