Ask Lemmy

I am Toy Story years old

I smelled like teen spirit.

I remember when Fox was a brand-new network that only broadcast during specific times of the day in my area.

I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.

LOAD “*” ,8,1

I'm not really a zoomer but I'm also not really a millennial. (and definitely not any other generation)

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was the Special Edition of A New Hope.

I loved Episodes I & II as a kid, but by the time Episode III rolled around I had developed enough appreciation for good screenwriting that I left the theater mildly disappointed.

YouTube didn't exist until after I graduated high school

If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool

Born a few months after the first moon landing. Birthday is next week.

I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.

If that doesn't do it I don't know what will.

Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.

I'm older than ATX but younger than x86 architecture.

My first console controller only had one button, audio cassette storage was my first pirating medium, I remember when doctors used to smoke in the examination room.

I have the touch. I have the power.

I remember playing Rollercoaster tycoon on windows 95.

Played in the creek (pronounced crik), caught pollywogs and toads and snakes. Walked barefoot to the farm down the street to buy sweet corn. Heard stories about my uncles finding dynamite in a cave near the railroad and bringing it home and passing it around at school before the fire department confiscated it all as well as stories of my great grandma holding my great grandpa at shotgun point till he did the chore he'd said he'd get to months before. I remember the internet screaming at me when I picked up the home phone. My dad's first cell phone was a Nokia brick. The first Galaxy smart phone came out the year I graduated highschool.

When we were kids the telephone man gave us the secret code you could use to make the phone booth phones call themselves to test the ringer. Loads of fun. I used to wake up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons. I know how to use the yellow pages, and I used to be the kid who would help you plug in and program all the old people’s tv and vcr and cable boxes. Most of the neighborhood kids had to be on by the time that one streetlight came on at dusk, but I was allowed to stay out later but usually went home too because it was boring after everyone else went home. We used to play tag football in the middle of the street and I was the wide receiver because I was the third or fourth oldest and the oldest two were always the quarterbacks. We used to all hang out at little jimmys house who was 8 or 10 years old because he had Mike Tyson’s punch out on NES. If one of our parents needed cigarettes we could walk up to buy them as long as we had a note from our mom.

There were no TV commercials on Sunday.

my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits

All the neighborhood kids came to play Pong at my house

I vaguely remember live tv of men walking on the moon. Not the first guy though, I’m not that old

Leaded gasoline, Vietnam war winding down along with Disco.

I watched my Saturday morning cartoons on betamax and I had transformers g1, gijoe, and heman on all of them

Analog childhood, digital adulthood

Challenger exploded on my birthday, I was in either grade 11 or 12.

“By the power of Greyskull!”

I remember exactly where I was & what I was doing when 9/11 happened. I was in middle school, science class, it promptly ended & we watched the live footage play on a CRT TV.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

Well, let's see.

I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.

Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids in an arcade, before kindergarten.

Pokemon Red was an amazing part of my childhood

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

Ghostbusters

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.

I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement