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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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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

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

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

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Michael Jackson was black when I first learned he existed

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

The new SpongeBob has no spirit

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago

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

[–] benelbow@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're you're fault haha!

[–] benelbow@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

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 points 1 week ago

There's this new thing called pokemon

[–] trustnoone 7 points 1 week ago

I have to feed my Tamagotchi!

I grew up playing flash games on the Internet

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

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 points 1 week ago

I played Mortal Kombat in highschool in MS-DOS.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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".

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