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Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.
Maaaaan somebody reminded me this existed last week and I had to bust these out and give em a spin
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
My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.
Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.
White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid
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
Tiny me's first computer game ever played:
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.
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.
I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.
Here's my seat on the bus.
We used slide rules in high school physics class. I still have mine.
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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"
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
My life began at the end of history.
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morphin
power
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Gameboy Color
🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵
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.
This feels like "tell me how old you are while telling me how old you are"
Eldest Millenial.
Sweet leaded gasoline