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I have two answers for you.

1: I have acne I'm too old for and gray hairs I'm too young for.

2: I have the depression of a millennial and the uninhibited madness of a zoomer.

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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)
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[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maaaaan somebody reminded me this existed last week and I had to bust these out and give em a spin

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Real talk, if you have young kids and DosBox or something, soooo many of those old games hold up.

Mine loved the OG Carmen San Diego games, though there were a couple short history lessons to understand some parts. Didn't quite clue into the 'use the dossier* to determine matches for warrants without a time penalty' trick that earned me a pizza party back in the day, lol.

*I don't remember what it's called, the file with all of the VILE agents

[–] remon@ani.social 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] randombullet@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

[–] goncalvesajo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

I was born during the One Child Policy in mainland China (I was the unlawful second-born child in my family)

My schools did active shooter drills when I was in K-12 school in the US

[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago

Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] BiggestPiggest@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

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

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I vividly remember seeing a show on TV very young, in a hotel room. It just happened to be on. When I saw it again, older, I realized it was the TNG pilot.

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Here's my seat on the bus.

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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I have a child old enough to vote

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[–] Jambone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago
[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have been born

I haven't died yet

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[–] JessyKenning@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

My rollerskates had 4 wheels and looked like tennis shoes. A cartoon named Thundarr helped develop my lifelong love of post apocalyptic media. Mtv played music videos, all day. I watched the pilot of my favorite t.v. show ever after work one night. "You exist here"

[–] percent@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I worked on preventing it.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Equal parts lead and microplastics.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

My life began at the end of history.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 days ago

mighty

morphin

power

rangers

[–] lucg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Gameboy Color

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

This feels like "tell me how old you are while telling me how old you are"

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[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Eldest Millenial.

[–] sapetoku@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Sweet leaded gasoline

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