Ask Lemmy

longcat is loooooong

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard, but at least I'm unlikely to live to see the collapse of civilization?

Go Thunderbirds

Cell phones were never to be seen on high school property. You're allowed to have them for emergencies, but you can never whip it out. If a teacher or administrator saw it, it would be taken away until end of the day.

When I started school my year group would use encyclopaedias and the school library to look up information for projects, by the end of primary school (elementary for the yanks) we were using Google in the school computer room.

The information age is my brother

I was 6 years old when Optimus Prime died for our sins.

I told all my friends on AIM to create MySpace accounts and add me when I was 18.

I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

You Can't Do That On Television

Goo goo ga ga

I remember where I was when Reagan was shot.

1. when I was a kid we didn't come home until dinner or fear the belt from dad

2. the song I lost my virginity to was Lady D'Arbanville, it was an older lady that was almost 30 years older than me. she wouldn't stop speaking French the whole time even though she knew English.

Ford... Carter

Three Mile Island

Iran Hostage crisis

Launch of Columbia

Challenger

Chernobyl

I recently found a couple old PC games I used to play as a child and thought was part of one or more "1000-in-1 Games" discs. They were 3-D Ultra Minigolf Deluxe and 3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers.

One of my absolute FAVORITE edutainment games was Franklin the Turtle Clubhouse Adventures.

I got to experience having shelves of VHS tapes alongside a drawer of them, and also having DVDs at the same time. Hell, my family even has netflix back when they mailed DVDs and I think we used to still have one or two of them from back then for a long while, but they probably got lost when we had to move.

I can remember my family renting games from Blockbuster.

Edit:

Pretty sure we had all or most of the 3•2•1 Penguins DVDs since my parents, like most every parent who let their kid watch it, loved VeggieTales and thought that Big Idea would have another big hit. VeggieTales is by far basically the only Christian cartoon I could ever recommend and I'm pretty sure I saw every one of the originals on VHS.

Super Mario World was the first video game I played.

The cartoons I watched as a kid were deliberately gross and ugly looking.

i played the shit out of duke nukem 3d. I was a tad too young though

Younger than Star Wars but older than the first flight of a concorde.

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I groan when I get up and my back pops when I lean a certain way. I'm way too young for those.

D’arcy de Farcy

I graduated high school during Covid

We used to drink Towne Club soda out of glass bottles.