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What is that?
That's a portable CD player with a tape adapter in its headphone jack. The tape is the played by the tape deck of your car stereo. This is for when you didn't have a brand new car with a CD player in the dash or the trunk, but you still had a portable CD player.
Ahhhh I see now— for a moment for me it looked like one of those AI gen images where it looks like something but the closer you look it isn’t anything— used to have a tape to aux converter in my car for this purpose.
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
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.
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"
Gameboy Color
🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵
Eldest Millenial.
Sweet leaded gasoline
mighty
morphin
power
rangers
I was alive for but don't remember 9/11. Some might call me a Zennial.
genz but have used floppy disk on PC and cassetes for music, have played with my ancient mouse's balls, fixed tv/monitor by violence, have been traumatized by several jumpscares found in random .swf file in a sea of .swf files back when I couldn't read english.
My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.
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Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.
I clearly remember it, I think you might be my little brother’s age.
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
This was my first console
Pong, right?
Yep. And a bunch of other games like hockey and what not
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Tiny me's first computer game ever played:
Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.
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