I knew about Warren Robinnet before Ready Player One
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I owned computers before this, but I remember buying my first PC, a 286, at a flea market for $20 with a coffee can full of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
I don’t remember where I was on 9/11 but I was drinking a lot back then so that doesn’t say much.
TBF, I quit my job when I saw that going down, and moved to the other coast days later.
Grif:
It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.
Simmons:
...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?
I remember watching the Berlin Wall coming down on the news. I don't remember the Challenger explosion (edit: though I was alive for it, to be clear). I was out on my own during 9/11, worried as hell about being drafted. Whether or not I am gen-x depends upon which of the dates for its end you choose.
The first movie I saw was The Muppet Movie. First run in the theatre.
Men used to wear booty shorts and belly shirts like some women do today; if they bothered with a shirt at all publicly and it was all 100% A OKAY; abs/pecs or not
I was sixteen days old when the world ended and we were all thrown back into the stone age.
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Vic-20, Atari 600 XL, zx-81.
In that order
I started using computers on windows 10 (I am now a proud Kubuntu user)
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I’m old but a young co-worker got me onto Lemmy.
When I'd get to kindergarten too early, the teacher let us watch some cable tv. It was usually showing the original xmen cartoon.
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First video card upgrade was a 3dfx voodoo 2
First computer only had a teletype, no screen. Oh and paper tape memory.