Ask Lemmy

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

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

I have been born

I haven't died yet

I have a child old enough to vote

This was my first console

I remember Y2K

41

I used to type Load ""

I saw star wars at the cinema when it was first released

Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

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

When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.

Be kind rewind

Fraggle Rock

Back when I was a kid, The Simpsons was a really good show

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

I loved the star wars films that came out while I was a child, but the ones that were made after that are really bad.

I was alive for 9/11 but have no memory of it

I got my first cell phone before the iPhone was first released

Waiting for your favourite song to be played on the radio and pressing record and pause on the cassette recorder at the exact right time. Massive feelings of win.

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.

Choplifter

Equal parts lead and microplastics.

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

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

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.

Bionicle.

About as old as [joke redacted] was

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.

I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.

I'm bald on top and my scalp looks like a brain from long Hulkamania, and PacMan fever destroyed my grip strength.

263660769 - that's a number that people could use to talk with me in a specific way when I was 14. Neither my parents nor anyone in my school had that number and the vast majority of them would not know what it was either.

But that's only true because I lived in a very small town in the middle of nowhere in South America. For a similar experience somewhere "more modern", that number would have had to have at least one less digit.

I still love gorilla.bat.

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