without saying how old you are, how old are you?

I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn't understand how a blind man could be reading to me.

Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.

I remember playing games on channel 3

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes

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My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

I was born in 1983

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.

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Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

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I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

I'm so old I've seen dozens of threads like this one.

Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.

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My first computer game was a book with the code in the book that you had to type in.

I participated in FidoNet.

I saw labyrinth in the theaters

Old enough that I don't follow trends anymore and I just kind of do my own thing.

I used to get AOL demo CDs in the mail.

I grew up with an Amiga.

I had a gateway PC with the cow print box.

I cried when my Tamagotchi "pet" died.

My first coding class was Cobol and we used punch-cards.

(Side story, nothing strikes a feeling of dread more than the sound of cards being shuffled behind you.)

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

The opening scene to Apollo 13 (1995) features a party in Houston with NASA dudes as they gather around the television and Walter Cronkite announces as Neil Armstrong takes his first step on the moon. ( On YouTube )

I was not at that party, but I was at a party in Houston with NASA dudes as we watched the very first moon landing. My dad was a mission control guy with the black horn-rimmed glasses, white shirt and black tie, but Apollo 12, not 11 (Neil Armstrong) or 13 (the one that blew up and barely made it home).

I couldn't walk yet, and I got that the space man on the screen was super important, but at the time I was missing a whole lot of context. The blanks would fill in with time, since the US was super proud of that moment. It's my very first memory.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.

I was in primary school when my father bought our first computer. A new 286.

I saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

My first console was the Atari 2600, my first computer ran on MS-DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch drive, monochrome CRT and no mouse. My intro to Windows was version 3.1.

I don't remember 9/11

I am two years older than TCP.

I am quite literally older than the Internet.

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.

The Oregon Trail.

I saw AC/DC's second London gig in a pub

I had "The Box" which gave us cable TV channels we weren't supposed to have.

My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

I bought music on cassette and again on CD, but never on 8-track.

Go go Power Rangers!

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

I learned to write code on a TI99-4A

The first CD, in fact the first piece of music, I ever bought was Green Day Dookie.

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.

There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.

I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.

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.

When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.

8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.

I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.

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.

Classic movies are in black an white.

I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.

I also know what a VCR is.

My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack

My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.

Obligatory modem noises:

dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.

1982

Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.

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.

I'm "I Want to Hold Your Hand" old.

Old enough to have seen The Phantom Menace in theaters, young enough to have liked Jar Jar Binks

Let me sing you the song of my people:

Boop beap boop boop krssssh GANG GANG GAN ssssSSS sssSSS sssSSS ieeee chchchCHCHCHCHCH SHSHSH

I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.

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 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.

During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."

My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.

I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.

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I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

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.

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.

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• SP: 2
• LP: 4
• SLP: 6

SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

I am Toy Story years old