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When I first saw The Lion King in the cinema, my best friend and I couldn't stop crying at the Mufasa scene.
We were probably taken to a colourful McDonalds, to be cheered up, however we did not use the play room as someone was having a birthday there.
This legend is older than me:
But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).
8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.
The first CD, in fact the first piece of music, I ever bought was Green Day Dookie.
Classic movies are in black an white.
I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.
I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.
I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.
I also know what a VCR is.
When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.
I played games on channel 3.
I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.
The apple 2e's in school were great for playing games.
The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.
There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.
One time when I was 10 my teacher rolled in a TV and made us watch some building fall over on the news. I thought it was boring and wanted to go back to learning stuff. But then afterwards all the grown-ups, and I mean like, all the grown-ups got really really angry and weird, like I would say things like that I don't want to knock over other people's buildings and they said that meant I was a terrorist.
I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.
I have videos of me as kid on 8mm. I spent my bonds I got at birth on a c64. I was one of the "cool" kids with a pager in school.
My grandma called the local TV studio and put me on the phone because I wanted to talk to someone because I was pissed off Tom and Jerry wasn't on because some guy named Ronald Reagan was on TV interrupting my favorite cartoons.
My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack
I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.
Lycos search on Netscape Navigator
Old enough to have seen The Phantom Menace in theaters, young enough to have liked Jar Jar Binks
During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."
I saw Return of The Jedi in the theaters, as well as The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and The Hound. Oh and I vaguely remember watching a 2 hour long advertisement for The Power Glove, called "The Wizard."
I have also paid $0.60 per gallon for gasoline.
I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.
SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.
I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.
A:/INSTALL.EXE
I got my first dick pic scanned. Like, bro literally slapped his sausage in a scanner, shut the lid, and sat there while the light scanned up and down. All whilst maintaining a hard on.
My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.
Obligatory modem noises:
dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....
Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.
Floppy floppies we're the first I touched. Internet access didn't exist.
I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.
Im sim city old. The first one.
Edit ok actually older than that.
I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.
Let me sing you the song of my people:
Boop beap boop boop krssssh GANG GANG GAN ssssSSS sssSSS sssSSS ieeee chchchCHCHCHCHCH SHSHSH
I smelled like teen spirit.
I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.
