Ask Lemmy

Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.

This was my first console

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.

My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.

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I used to type Load ""

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

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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.

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"

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.

Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

We used slide rules in high school physics class. I still have mine.

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Gameboy Color

I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.

I was alive for but don't remember 9/11. Some might call me a Zennial.

🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵

Eldest Millenial.

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

Sweet leaded gasoline

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.

Was a little kid when lawn darts were still legal/available.

I have been born

I haven't died yet

I remember Y2K

I have a child old enough to vote

Equal parts lead and microplastics.