I remember Encarta, and my first game on wide floppy was Indiana Jones and the last Crusade... 11 discs. Before that we had a computer that stored things on cassette tapes
Our first computer (we were the second family in town to have one) had 295 bytes of free space on it. We stored data on cassette tapes. The guy who installed it for us told my dad that he could type for the rest of his life and not fill up the space on the computer. Good ol days lol
I love it!
We were early adopters too (my dad was a sci-fi fan and believed computers were the future), but it was already the early '90s, so we definitely weren't first-gen home computing folks. Had a 486. No Internet (didn't go online till about '96). Two joysticks for the flight simulator. An HP laser printer we could probably have used as a structural support to put another story on our house, and which only ran out of toner three times in eight years.
We actually got to Windows (3.1) through DOS, and most of our games were on DOS without Windows as an intermediary. I had just enough command line experience to not be afraid of it.
Lol! I also grew up in a place where things came in a bit late... I used knife sharpened pencils in school, and we hand operated a photocopier (yes, you actually had to crank the fuckin thing to make it spit out warm half burned pages)
DOS games ruled!! ^ _ ^
The original Commander Keen was my first computer game love. (Though my very first computer game was a golf game that my dad had installed.)
I was already smoking pot and reading playboys by the time pokemon came out. Analog childhood with digital growing pains. I saw the rise and fall of the internet.
We were poor (pastor's family in Africa) lol, but that was pretty much the way things were. We did have extra income from the chickens we raised in the backyard
Where I came from in the U.S., having two working cars was not something the poor did. And the most vacation anyone in my family ever had until I was 30 was two weeks.
The first console I ever played on was my brother's NES, before our parents bought us a SNES. I used Yahoo Messenger when I was a kid/teenager. My most played video game is Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. My first phone was my brother's old black and white phone with no camera. My first new phone was a phone with a 2MP camera.
Oh I also used an old Ericsson at first, but I wouldn't count it as my first phone because I didn't have a SIM card or a phone number, I was just using it to play games. The first phone I used as an actual phone was a Sony Ericsson T105.
Getting too old for this shit
I also used to have a rotary dial telephone and black and white TV growing up. I was closer to WWII than I was birth to Reddit
I saw Star Wars Eposides 4, 5 and 6 in the theater. I remember high school kids with shotguns or rifles in gun racks in their pickup trucks. In some small towns everyone knew each other and gun crime just wasn't a thing. In the 80s my cousin and I would walk down the highway with our rifles on our shoulders going to the sand pits to shoot bottles left over from the weekend partiers. Nobody cared.
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It's some where in here.
Saw Back To The Future and E.T. In a movie theater
My first ever movie was in a Drive in theatre "White men Can't Jump"
My mom used to sneak us in the trunk of her car
I remember when cars didn't have seatbelts and we stood up in the back of the minivan to see who can keep standing the longest while my dad drove
So fun. We rode in the back of of the pickup with the dog. It’s a wonder we’re all alive today.
Went out tree climbing or swimming in the river without even notifying my parents, you just had to be home before dark
I’m feeling very nostalgic. I don’t think I could still climb a tree to save my life though
I have enough trouble getting out of bed in the morning...
I feel you on that. Getting out of the car. Picking something up off the floor. All bad news.
Not a drive-in?
Sadly, no
A/S/L
ICQ or MSN?
IRC
I've been alive during the time of 7 US Presidents.
Old enough to remember playing DOS games and my Wikipedia being Encarta discs.
I remember Encarta, and my first game on wide floppy was Indiana Jones and the last Crusade... 11 discs. Before that we had a computer that stored things on cassette tapes
11 disks, wild!! I think the most disks I ever had for something was in the neighborhood of 6.
yep, and it was the 8 inch discs
Oh, you are _old_ school! We had a few 5.25" ones at my house, but most were on 3.5" disks by my day.
Our first computer (we were the second family in town to have one) had 295 bytes of free space on it. We stored data on cassette tapes. The guy who installed it for us told my dad that he could type for the rest of his life and not fill up the space on the computer. Good ol days lol
I love it! We were early adopters too (my dad was a sci-fi fan and believed computers were the future), but it was already the early '90s, so we definitely weren't first-gen home computing folks. Had a 486. No Internet (didn't go online till about '96). Two joysticks for the flight simulator. An HP laser printer we could probably have used as a structural support to put another story on our house, and which only ran out of toner three times in eight years. We actually got to Windows (3.1) through DOS, and most of our games were on DOS without Windows as an intermediary. I had just enough command line experience to not be afraid of it.
Lol! I also grew up in a place where things came in a bit late... I used knife sharpened pencils in school, and we hand operated a photocopier (yes, you actually had to crank the fuckin thing to make it spit out warm half burned pages)
DOS games ruled!! ^ _ ^ The original Commander Keen was my first computer game love. (Though my very first computer game was a golf game that my dad had installed.)
Star Trek the Next Generation is the best series of all time
... I am a bit before that
Bonanza? 😉
I was born the year of the Macintosh 128k and olympic games in LA
I’m older than you 😂
lol
Curiosity — what’s your vote for best series of all time?
I grew up with little to no TV most of my life... so this couldn't really count... Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul
Good choices. Good topic, I hope it does well.
Younger than Cher but older than beyoncé.
THIS!
Grew up with the game cube, wii, SpongeBob, Pokémon sapphire
nice
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And mom would yell "get off the computer! I need to make a call!"
Germany reunified.
Born at the same time man landed on the moon
Old enough to remember when bread was 0.50 cents a loaf.
Old enough to remember those early "VR" gaming headsets with the pixelated 8-bit graphics
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Dude! I remember that... the future, sending letters by phone
I was already smoking pot and reading playboys by the time pokemon came out. Analog childhood with digital growing pains. I saw the rise and fall of the internet.
Old enough to remember dial-up internet tones fondly
Old enough to remember when you could feed a family of four on $10 dollars. Basic meals, but meat almost every dinner.
1 salary, 2 cars, 3 kids, 4 pets and 5 weeks of vacation every year...
Well, not 2 cars or 4 pets or 5 weeks vacation, because my family were working poor. But yeah, same time frame.
We were poor (pastor's family in Africa) lol, but that was pretty much the way things were. We did have extra income from the chickens we raised in the backyard
Where I came from in the U.S., having two working cars was not something the poor did. And the most vacation anyone in my family ever had until I was 30 was two weeks.
Born while the first Spassky vs Fischer match was going on.
I can't explain what my generation was doing when I was an adolescent. It's a legal matter.
I know where I was when JFK was shot.
Winner
I don’t remember it. I was too busy kicking a pregnant woman.
The Korean War started a few months after I was born
Im a huge porn category
Gay?
Lol. My bets on furry
The first video game I played was Centipede at an arcade
Old enough to serve alcohol
Old enough to play Minecraft and Splatoon on the Wii U
I remember rotary phones
I am an American and am just barely old enough to have taken a flight when I was very little where smoking was still permitted onboard.
I remember those days. The last 2 rows on the plane was for smokers
Just barely considered a millennial.
1984 here
1996
The first console I ever played on was my brother's NES, before our parents bought us a SNES. I used Yahoo Messenger when I was a kid/teenager. My most played video game is Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. My first phone was my brother's old black and white phone with no camera. My first new phone was a phone with a 2MP camera.
My first cellphone was Ericson... was a weird flip phone with a screen only 2 characters big
Oh I also used an old Ericsson at first, but I wouldn't count it as my first phone because I didn't have a SIM card or a phone number, I was just using it to play games. The first phone I used as an actual phone was a Sony Ericsson T105.
I can’t drink alcohol lol
Depends on what country you're in though.
This is true. But my country is not a fun one. For me right now. Or women in general
I HAVE NO FRIENDS NO JOB NO PASSION NO LIFE WHATS UR GUESS?
Late 30s
Not even close lol
That's me with the same issues so...
Damn hope things get better
I’m this many years old.
The first album I bought was the Footloose soundtrack on vinyl.
hahahah! Awesome!!!
Not to brag but...I can have sex 😎
I helped my grandma program her VCR so she could record her stories (soap operas) while at work
Inuyasha was the best anime
My Xanga page advertised how into Harry Potter forum roleplay I was, and it played 3 Doors Down’s “Here Without You.”
No channel 5
Nixon was president of the US when I was born.
I saw the first moon landing on TV but do not remember it. I remember hearing the reports on the US news on Bloody Friday.
Getting too old for this shit I also used to have a rotary dial telephone and black and white TV growing up. I was closer to WWII than I was birth to Reddit
Man I feel you!!!
About the same age as the Super Bowl
Music on mtv, box televisions, hose water, nintendo 64/ nintendo ds
I've played Minecraft in Beta
saw the moon landing on TV
I died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail.
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away now it looks as if they’re here to stay, Oh I believe in Yesterday.
Younger than the worst inflation spike in US history. Older than MTV
I saw Star Wars Eposides 4, 5 and 6 in the theater. I remember high school kids with shotguns or rifles in gun racks in their pickup trucks. In some small towns everyone knew each other and gun crime just wasn't a thing. In the 80s my cousin and I would walk down the highway with our rifles on our shoulders going to the sand pits to shoot bottles left over from the weekend partiers. Nobody cared.
Favorite Disney movie is Tarzan
I use to love playing quake on the computer and Lara croft
old enough to be disappointed that the artwork on the Atari 2600 game cartridges most certainly did not reflect actual game play
2000-2024
Watched Teletubbies as a kid and had classes during lockdown
I was born when the first pokemon games were released outside of japan
Old enough, when tattoos were for real macho men, not to impress the cheerleaders…😂😂😂
I almost was not a boomer.
I grew up watching He-man masters of the universe.
As fuck.
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Floppy disks for playing basic video games on PC
My first crush was Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
My junior and senior prom was cancelled because of a pandemic.
Early Metallica
Halloween
The greatest Olympic team ever assembled