i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
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Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.
I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.
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The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.
I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler
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I still call them Opel Fruits
Grew up using Vista
i though vista was basically dead on arrival?
If you had decent hardware for Vista, it ran like a champ. Those who upgraded from xp running on base specs had a hard time
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I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets
I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:
A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,
B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and
C) The Littlest Hobo
This could also be in a thread titled "Tell me you're Canadian without telling me you're Canadian".
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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 was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.
I still feel shy when buying beer
I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.
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
I was still a kid when my dad brought home a brand new Apple II. Before that computer appeared in his home office (and in my live, as I used that Apple so much more than he ever did ;)), I learned to type on my granddad's typewriter.
My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.
I got one of the first home Pong machines for my 7th birthday