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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 52 minutes ago

okay, how can I pretend I'm not born yet?

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

In 1995 I just brought books with me to prevent people from talking to me

[–] CubitOom 2 points 2 hours ago

I had a walkman

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Millennials with cellular data:

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

You don’t need to pretend its 1995 if you are to futuristic to ask for the wifi password.

Though i do hope the owner keeps their act up and acts like they never seen anything like it (a smartphone)

It does make me wonder when this writing was put there and for how many total years it was actually relevant.

[–] CubitOom 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Anyone remember accidentally pressing the Internet button on your phone and panicing because you would not financially recover from that and then trying to close it but it would take like 10 mins to open before it could be closed?

[–] CubitOom 3 points 2 hours ago

The Oklahoma City bomber (Timothy McVeigh) was a white supremacist and left a copy of The Turner Diaries for all to find.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Wait I like this. A bar where you can experience cultural moments as though they are happening live. June 17th is OJ simpson freeway chase day, pick a day in november for the exploding oregon whale. Live history

[–] Forester@pawb.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Have you heard that new smash mouth band yet I think they're going to be pretty big.

[–] Ediacarium@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm gonna invest in Yahoo, I think they're going to be larger than Google one day.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not me. I'm all in on ask Jeeves.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I'll be looking down my nose at all of you from high atop my perch on Altavista

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Boomer trap.