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My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.

Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.

I have been born

I haven't died yet

I have a child old enough to vote

I remember Y2K

This was my first console

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Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.

I used to type Load ""

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Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

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When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.

Be kind rewind

I saw star wars at the cinema when it was first released

Back when I was a kid, The Simpsons was a really good show

Choplifter

I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.

I was alive for 9/11 but have no memory of it

I got my first cell phone before the iPhone was first released

Waiting for your favourite song to be played on the radio and pressing record and pause on the cassette recorder at the exact right time. Massive feelings of win.

I was there, at Cape Canaveral, in the audience, when Challenger exploded. I had just finished Jr. Space Camp, and decided that if stuff like that was gonna happen while I was around NASA, then maybe I should look for an alternative career path.

I loved the star wars films that came out while I was a child, but the ones that were made after that are really bad.

Equal parts lead and microplastics.

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

My youngest kid just graduated highschool. Pell Grants literally covered my tuition (nothing else, but the classes) for college.

Also I know what this is

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I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

About as old as [joke redacted] was

Bionicle.

I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.

We used slide rules in high school physics class. I still have mine.

I still love gorilla.bat.

I was in high school on 9/11/2001. I remember another teacher ran into my classroom and told my teacher to turn the news on just as first period was ending. The tv was already on in my 2nd period class. I watched both towers fall on live tv. It was... an experience, that's for sure.

Side note, my physics teacher was in the Navy Reserves and was called into active duty. My physics class was "taught" with varying degrees of success by substitutes for the rest of the semester. That was an interesting class, and for the wrong reasons.

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard, but at least I'm unlikely to live to see the collapse of civilization?

Super Mario World was the first video game I played.

I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.