5mo ago

Tell me your age bracket without telling me your age bracket.

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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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.
I have copies of the same bands' albums in four different formats.
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
I played Mortal Kombat in highschool in MS-DOS.
Worried about being drafted in the immediate aftermath of 9/11
I have not met anyone younger than me who remembers the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers.
- 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
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.
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.
I remember rotary phones, Saturday morning cartoons, slap bracelets, and a time when there was ONE home videogame system.
Michael Jackson was black when I first learned he existed
The new SpongeBob has no spirit

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