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.
I grew up playing flash games on the Internet
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.
Worried about being drafted in the immediate aftermath of 9/11
I have copies of the same bands’ albums in four different formats.
I played Mortal Kombat in highschool in MS-DOS.
I remember rotary phones, Saturday morning cartoons, slap bracelets, and a time when there was ONE home videogame system.
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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Typos, missing punctuation and other mistakes.
Michael Jackson was black when I first learned he existed
The new SpongeBob has no spirit
We’re usually the tech support for generations before and after us
Sweets were rationed when I was born. Sometime later I sold avocado bathroom suites…
They’re you’re fault haha!
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.
There’s this new thing called pokemon
I have to feed my Tamagotchi!
The first thing I bought with money I earned myself was a Teal Gameboy Color.
The most popular game machine in my first neighbourhood had unmoveable sprites for picture elements:
God I’d forgotten they existed! Blast from the past
