i feel like lemmy skews older than the rest of the internet
i also made an anonymous poll because data is cool
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fGestKFfPddlgaPA4zOONy4GGq9DBUXoDfS-cqUsaPE/
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.
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Jealous?
Pics or not real!
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36?
That’s a damn good guess!
I remember playing games on channel 3
Did you have the little switch screwed into the back of your set to go from “TV” to “GAME” ?
also, I came here to post “Atari 2600” but I’ll leave it in this comment instead :P
I had a small switch on the back of the adapter that chose between channel 3 or channel 4
ohhh yeah I think I remember that one too :)
to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes
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My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.
… And that’s the same year I graduated high school…
Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.
i can’t imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar
I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.
I grew up with the Star Wars trilogy on VHS box set and phantom menace was one of my first movies in a theatre.
LOAD “*”,8,1
C64 gang!
(Or VIC 20 I guess ^^)
Me too.
We out here poking and peeking.
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
I never had the cassette, but I had a friend that did and it was pretty sweet.
I didn’t either, but I sure remember it yelling at me when I forgot the ,8 !
I was more of a LOAD $
Until you got FASTLOAD
Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.
Pogs
Badger badger badger badger badger badger Badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom mushroom
I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.
I don’t know if I’m a millennial or generation x
i think the answers lies in the lead/microplastics ratio in your body
“Oregon Trail” generation
I’m as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.
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 was sad when AOL started sending demo CDs instead of the floppy disks :(
I would’ve broken a man’s arm for an Amiga 500. All I ever had growing up was a Vic-20.
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.
My first reaction to this question was: hey, I was alive (not by much) when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. I don’t remember anything about it though.
