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'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.

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

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

There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money

My first computer was a Sinclair

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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.

First manned space flight.

PR#6

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.

I still shoot film and I still have a record player.

First smart phone was an iPhone 5S.

Guess my age?

My first 7" single was Slade-Far far away

I remember watching the Berlin Wall coming down on the news. I don't remember the Challenger explosion (edit: though I was alive for it, to be clear). I was out on my own during 9/11, worried as hell about being drafted. Whether or not I am gen-x depends upon which of the dates for its end you choose.

https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231 has results of a demographic poll for lemmy.ca.

I'm older than YouTube.

The first movie I saw was The Muppet Movie. First run in the theatre.

I started using computers on windows 10 (I am now a proud Kubuntu user)

I'm the same age as DOOM

I knew about Warren Robinnet before Ready Player One

I have no idea about most of theese comments.