Ask Lemmy

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).

Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

Younger than the iphone 👶

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out

First manned space flight.

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I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.

The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.

My first modem was 2400 baud.

I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

TVs have a UHF switch so I can finally watch more channels. I really hate putting tinfoil on the rabbit ears and opening the window to sometimes get these new channels though, but they work better if I hold onto the antenna. It's hard to see what I'm watching if I do this, but at least I can mostly hear what they're saying, and the picture is dark anyway, so even if I could see at this angle, it would be too dark and snowy.

AIM away messages and the passive flex of who has the best 'buddyprofile' that may or may not link to a livejournal or xanga page

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.

My first computer was a Sinclair

My first gaming console was N64 and I remember my parent's paid 700 USD for our 2 bedroom apartment in decent area.

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

I'm barely still a Millenial. Which is kind of cool. I don't like the "generation names" before or after that much, and I liked that I grew up with non-invasive tech and non-existent smartphones during school. I was able to grow up with tech but none of the tech I dislike today. Also, tech was still easier to understand back then. I was able to learn how to create web sites for example when HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CGI was still in its infancy and not very complex yet. Of course I learned the growing complexitty as it all developed but the point is that it kind of grew with me. Which probably made several things easier to get into in the first place. Also, I still grew up with almost forgotten values such as privacy, and my whole youth life (as well as dumb things you did when young) isn't available online and therefore "gone". I kind of like it that way.

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