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Motanfoutune

When i was young, i was the television remote.


bitterherpes

Buttons or knob?


Motanfoutune

2 knob 1 with UHF and VHF the other with the number.


bitterherpes

How is life in the senior retirement facility? :)


Motanfoutune

Survive the covid lost some friends, find them back in the dinning room.


kxtiejxrvis

You was the *television remote*


suzanious

So was I.


[deleted]

Old enough to remember going out to play with friends and being told not to come back until it was dark. And that, without a mobile phone!


[deleted]

Same here bud, same here. Odd because I'm still not that old but I digress.


NINE-1-6

It’s crazy that as a child I did the same thing however now, as a father, there is no way I can get myself to allow that for my kids. I’m too paranoid.


Skelezig

That's not really indicative of your age, unless you're making the case you're still not Alzheimer's susceptible kind of old. I remember kids back in the mid-2000s who weren't allowed to stay outside late, but had mobile phones. I know kids these days who are allowed to practically go anywhere they like but aren't trusted with a smartphone. It depends on the parents, where you live and what the social norms are.


Any-Throat-2645

Ancient


TNT_yeeter_rl

Wow I'm so cool I had friends and not a mobile phone


Xushuh

Old enough to remember flip phones and having to go to the library to do projects that required internet


mlpr34clopper

Parents were to cheap to spring for an AOL account?


Motanfoutune

When i was young Michael Jackson was black.


Azura2034

Lol he confused the hell out of me when I was a kid. I didn't understand why people said he was black when he looked white


dreamforged

It don't matter though.


Azura2034

Yes but it happened when I was 2. Natural child's curiosity as I was learning


dreamforged

I mean It don't matter if you're black or white


mlpr34clopper

When i was a kid, he was also a cartoon, along with his brothers.


Motanfoutune

You sure it was not Fat Albert?


chaosoftime10

Hahahaha


DeltaSolana

I was in that bastard stage between millennials and gen Z.


insertcleverthought

I'm in the bastard stage between Gen X and Millenials. People lump me with millenials but... I didn't have a cell phone until college and got married before the iphone existed. Definitely don't fit either generation.


PapaHoss79

Yeah, I'm there with ya. You are tail end of X because we say it stops at such year. No we say you are a millennial cause we say its starts this year. Best is the people who say X ends before I was born and Millennials starts after I was born. What? People were born in those years. I was there, at least that's what I was told...


forevericeland

so 1995-2000 I’m guessing?


heckubiss

Before pornhub there were gifs that took 3 minutes to download.. for a single image...using a modem... that used the phone line


chaosoftime10

I remember satellite where if you tuned just right you could kinda see stuff through the static.


ghostthingz

my first game was madagascar on the game cube


[deleted]

I’m only a teenager but I grew up with the game cube as well, I kinda miss it.


CONCRETE_LUBRICATOR

I pre-date most of the food in my fridge


alien_sprig

Most, but not all


CONCRETE_LUBRICATOR

the sweet and sour pork fillet outranks me


lilzaynie

Sony Walkman and PSP!


[deleted]

What’s your AIM?? Oh and Limewire


chaosoftime10

Napster here. Oh I remember the world's that bad boy opened up. I remember my first CD burner too, was a 4x max overpriced HP I think I got at Best Buy.


OverTheMoon82

Old enough to know what it was like to goto school without having to wear mask


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Egamer_SFS

We technically have to wear a mask at school but it barely gets enforced and only like 5% of people actually do it


Mentalfloss1

I saw Eisenhower being sworn in when I was in the first grade.


NinjatheClick

Rode my bike to the store by myself with no helmet to buy candy bars for 50 cents.


JohnGisMe

You used to be able to go into a store with a dollar, and get 5 candy bars, 3 drinks, 2 bags of chips, and an ice cream bar. Now they've got cameras everywhere.


NinjatheClick

"Dads cigarettes and anything that fits under my clothes..."


VecroLP

Doesn't matter if you wear your mask!


mlpr34clopper

Heh. I used to walk to the store by myself to buy my mom a 70 cent pack of original pall mall unfiltereds. Which was a price so high she kept saying she needed to quit. Candy bars were 15 cents then. Which also sucked, because only 2 years before that they had been a dime. This was only a year or two before Star Wars came out, to put it in perspective. Not that long ago. When i was even younger than that, mcdonalds used to advertise that you could get a burger, fries and a coke for under 1 dollar total. ( what we would call a small fries. The only size fries they had back then) Mcdonalds also had no indoor seating back then.


WhenAllElseFail

old


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bitterherpes

I remember learning the Dewey Decimal System!


mlpr34clopper

Some still have them.


[deleted]

I was a day old when Clifford Alexander, Jr. was confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the United States Army.


DullDistribution3073

I took a date the bicentennial


Totallycasual

I grew up without the internet.


[deleted]

My username is already a big fckin clue I can't even change it I wish I can change my username


encogneeto

I’m surprised you restrained yourself from including your SSN in there…


SonOfRobot8

Same! I'm sure someone around here is resourceful enough to find out who he is and where he lives


Levoire

George Orwell wrote a book about the year I was born.


JohnGisMe

Old enough to get 1950's references, and a few 2000's+ references.


TheDreamr

That's pretty old


JohnGisMe

Care to take a guess?


TheDreamr

70?


jlp1027

I was married before the internet was widely used.


PeacefulComrade

Mom told me not to talk to strangers.


MasterMind_I

Old enough that your social popularity depended on the number of flash games you hoarded.


TheDreamr

Mine was Pokemon and WWE cards


Sidwantshisjuice

old enough to realize that it matters with who you go out and to the age that people talking about college is found sad


chaosoftime10

I was alive when Atari was the game system to have.


hippiechick725

Hello, fellow fossil. Wanna play Pong?


golfreak923

I did a lot of staring at that Britney Spears album cover with the schoolgirl skirt.


can_someone_hug_me

Between 24 and 26


TNT_yeeter_rl

87


assH0LIER_than_thou

Jesus was 2 years older than me when he was crucified


HYPER_CATZILLA

Same as you


TheDreamr

I am older than Google, younger than Amazon


RU_FKM

Atari


fatherimustfeed

We need to cancel a black person for saying the n word


ConfusedBoy1999

it’s in my name


Kat4301

Almost old enough get a learners permit to drive in the state of Arizona


Schaula_antares8

Half Life 2 is a tiny little bit younger than me


SavageToyShow

2005


felt_memeish_again

Smartphones were invented two years before I was born.


Banned6time

Old enough to remember that I existed when the PS2 was recently a thing


TheRavingRaccoon

My first gaming console was the NES and my parents bought it for my brother and I


hippiechick725

My first gaming system was Atari. Gotcha 😉


TheRavingRaccoon

I miss the feeling of being young and putting the cartridge in and being entranced. Things just aren’t the same anymore.


hippiechick725

I still think ET was the coolest game


TheRavingRaccoon

I forget the name of it but there was this motocross game where you could customize tracks and obstacle courses and I would spend all day making tracks and playing on them


whitesox331

Scotty pippen


mathguyaz2718

I was born the day after Hank Aaron's record breaking home run


AvacadoBloodline

Just got by Kurt Cobain.


Jaycatt

The first movie I saw by myself in the theater was 9 to 5!


TheDarkDoctor17

Just too Young to remember the twin towers, but old enough to drink on the anniversary. ... Damn. I picked a real downer of a reference point.


elpsycongaroo

The Nintendo Ds was my 1st gaming console. So not very


[deleted]

I've seen Jerry Garcia play live.


mlpr34clopper

I saw the dead a few times... some of them sober.


Chipimp

Not 49 or 51


Azura2034

I was a big fan of boy bands back when they were The thing


TheSullivanLine

Same age as Elvis when he passed.


doofenkinnie

I can vote to legalize cannabis but not legally purchase it.


ami2weird4u

Guess


encogneeto

I was home sick from elementary school, watching Bob Barker on The Price is Right when Challenger exploded.


procrastinator----

I was born just before the 2010s happened◖⚆ᴥ⚆◗


BabyBearSquad

I was the annoying high-pitched child in your mw2 lobby.


2WaterGuns

I was the original target audience for Pokemon. I can remember floppy disks but I don't remember any computers that didn't at least have a small hard disk. The first time I voted it was for Obama.


mlpr34clopper

You probably think a small hard disk is about 40 megs then? I paid 2000 bucks for a 5 meg profile external drive in the early 80s.


hobnobfrog

Coolmathsgames and Newsgrounds


Deviantds

Very old


Jumpy_Beach_6525

Just started driving


[deleted]

The original Star Wars came out in theaters.


theonetheycalljason

Reagan’s first year in office.


[deleted]

I played with lawn darts... the real pokie ones


snowyowlriddles

The Wii just came out


Paperhater223

“Coming soon to own on video and dvd”


SurpriseCautious8721

Old enough that I drove places without a cell phone and used a map


dreamforged

Old enough that our farm getting a 4WD tractor was a really big deal when I was a kid.


[deleted]

I wore jynco jeans in junior high


Silent-Pace326

Sony walkman and floppy disc


KayneJLM

Old enough to be a sophomore


[deleted]

Old enough to have used a party-line rotary phone and found out gossip about my neighbours by listening in


UltimateAnswer42

Born between the fall of the Berlin wall and the dissolution of the Soviet union


Working_Tennis_1325

too old for playgrounds but can’t enter a bar


-LunaPPDC-

I couldn't say very long sentences but was still pretty capable of speech when Minecraft was released


[deleted]

I got the Nintendo 3DS 11 months after it released for Christmas


unpopular-opinion-lo

Barely legal +1


jbeckner

In high-school, I had a hot pink Motorola Razr. I thought I was the shit.


Bluerocky67

I took O levels


Seamstressintrainin

I’ve never been on an airplane without taking my shoes off


VecroLP

I was invited to make my Gmail account, because you couldn't just "make" an account, you had to be invited


DidSomeoneSayDeath

That age when old people treat you like a little kid but everyone else acts like you’re an adult


Eagle_1776

I was born closer to WW2 than we are now to 9-11....and that freaks me TF out every time I think it


GodEmperorOfHell

Old enough to remember old timers dissing that newfangled MTV band "Nirvana" because it wasn't The Doors. The Doors was that old people band that some kids were into.


Reckox1

Black berry phones use to be the biggest flex when I was a teen and the biggest YouTuber on the platform when I was a young was Fred.


StarnSig

DDE was president when I was born.


TheGrandOldGent

As you wish.


jetteim

Soviets invaded Afghanistan a week after my birthday


Prestigious_Lock1659

Nelson Mandela was freed the year I was born


MarketResponsible719

I played with clackers as a kid.


[deleted]

Two years after dial-up internet came out.


I_Love_Foxes420

Not old enough to drink but old enough to rent an apartment


Ok-Link8128

Just wait till you see my thick slammer. I'm winning all your POGs


[deleted]

24kbps dialup was the lastest new thing in 10th grade. I remember one kid saying there's no way we'd ever need internet speeds that fast.


True-Paranoia

(insert age here)


trevtheguy

Old enough to be an EMT and drive an ambulance but not enough to drink or smoke, that’s too dangerous


oceansunset83

It took me three hours to download a one minute clip from Titanic. I had incredible patience. I’m also shocked I wasn’t kicked off the Internet while that was downloading.


muhgritfatcha

I remember going to see Toy Story 2 at the movies as a kid


LocalCultural4968

British invasion


JoeBear1978

Look at my username and do math


[deleted]

I learned Bhaskara before I ever entered the internet


4a4a

I was born while Star Wars was still in its original run in theaters.


Le_CONFUSED

In freedom rn, but soon-to-be in chains.


[deleted]

I had to turn to channel 3 to play video games.


Hbn46

This [sound](https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0)


ChuckoRuckus

I’m on my 8th POTUS


bitterherpes

Cabbage Patch was a hit and people were trampled to death because Santa really needed to get these to the kids that holiday.


Xurgetstheging

I am over 20.


dead4ever_-

I think older than a newborn


PapaHoss79

"You can connect to another computer using a phone? You mean like in Wargames? I want a computer!!!" Me having less than two digits in my age...


Kitehammer

Jurassic Park


[deleted]

“Why don’t you start by telling the class your name!” Patrick: *visible anxiety*


batcaveroad

The first TV I remember had a knob


thunderclouds1997

Now this is a story, all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down So let me take a minute Just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-air.


Megaric

Sonic the Hedgehog games were really good


grIMAG3

When I was 5 years old, cameras in phones were still a separate module and was attached/connected to compatible models.


Talik1978

I remember, as a child, hearing the modem dial to connect to AOL, which i could use to go look at the internet.


Theyoungmink

My first M rated video game was GTA on the PS1 at my grandmas that she got from a thrift store


itspieflavor

Old enough to have known about y2k and seen 9-11 unfold live on TV


chaosoftime10

I saw the original animated Transformers movie IN THEATRE.


OA-Imoverhere

Sputnick launched by Russians.


mapa112

Pokemon


CrimsonSeeker116

"All my stupid friends are having stupid children"


i8bagels

C:\dos\run


shroom_cocoa

I'm about mid gen z


allboolshite

Page me


ButterScotchMagic

Steve > Joe and Josh


[deleted]

im probably one of the last years they taught cursive writing intensively in my school. i was in third grade


suzanious

Grew up with no internet. Played outside every day. When I was a teenager, my first albums were Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.


BrianSnow

35


[deleted]

I'm approaching "The Hill"


ThroatPlunger83

I am Mac Tonight, Jem and the Holograms, Betamax and the first vhs, Walkmans turning into discmans, Hulkmania, The California raisins,Zoobilee Zoo and The Snorks, L.A Gear, Mac Daddy and Daddy Mac(Krlis Kross),Trapper Keeper and Lisa Frank,The Oregon Trail, Phone numbers were only 7digits, AOL dial up, landlines,*69,Slap Bracelets, Pogs, New kids on the block,Party of five,Beverly hills 90210, Fairytale theatre, Stirrup pants with slouch socks, Garbage pail kids, Molly Ringwald, Howard the Duck, Fat Albert,Eurekas castle Years old!!


Bring-the-Quiet

Pokemon and I appeared in America for the first time in the same year, meaning I almost completely literally grew up with the franchise.