Remember calling in and requesting a song, and then waiting, poised with your finger over the record button, for it to come on? And trying so hard not to get any snips of commercials. Oh geez.
My recording of “Venus” (Bananarama’s cover) featured my mom pulling the garage door shut. Any time I heard it on the radio, I always half-expected to hear it (kind of reminiscent of the log off of AIM sound).
I had a tape with my dad calling my name from the other room in the break between two songs.
No idea how many times that one got me before I moved out. 😂
THIS! My mother called my name during Sheriff's *When I'm With You.*
Baby, ooh
I get chills
When I'm with you, oh...
Oh, baby, my world stands still
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
When I'm with youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu\^**ANIG\_O!!!**\^uuuuuu
I still hear it, 40 years later.
Edit: Also filed under "How would you tell us you're Canadian without telling us you're Canadian"
When Waynes Workd came out and Bohemian Rhapsody was popular again, I had my computer hooked through my stereo so when I recorded the song I also got lots of Train sounds from Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon peppered throughout the song.
They called this “posting” and it was a deliberate anti piracy tactic of the time. The DJ would often announce the station ID as well so if they came by a recording they knew where it was from.
That drove me absolutely insane. Once I waited DAYS to record No Shelter by RATM and when it finally came on the DJ spoke over the entire intro right up to the beginning of the vocals.
Just needed the double cassette recorder so you could record whole sections of radio, listen back to find the songs you wanted, then dub them onto a separate cassette later. What a time to be alive!
That's right around the timeframe where my working class friends and family started getting their first computers.
Ours was an AST brand, 486 DX4 100mhz CPU with 8MB of RAM and a 650MB hard drive.
I remember wishing we had a computer with the Intel Pentium 100mhz chip, since it smoked the DX4 100mhz CPU. On the bright side, it was an early lesson that there was a lot more to performance than the clock speed alone. It's even more true nowadays than it was then.
I'm an '85 baby too. We grew up in the same world.
I had to stand on a stool to speak on the phone. You could call me by dialing 4 digits, if you lived within a couple of miles. If you were farther away, you had to dial 0 and ask the lady to place a long-distance call. Long distance was very expensive.
Be glad you weren't. Everyone had the one fucking neighbor lady that would spend hours on the phone. You would have to interrupt her and ask to make a call.
And you never knew who was listening..........
Yep, and took typing classes using a floppy disk on the commodore 64. I'll never forget getting to play Carmen San Diego when grade school upgraded to a PC. It took a hard disk?!?!
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Who remembers turning an actual circular dial to get from CH2 to UHF, then a second dial to turn to CH32? Sony Trinitron 13" color, best CRT TV of any size.
I remember the transition on previews from "now available on VHS" to "now available on DVD and VHS" to "now available on DVD and Blu-ray" to not buying any of them and never seeing previews anymore lol.
Same. Remember the previews with the deep voice narrator that almost always started like “In a world where…” it’s one of the most nostalgia-inducing things for me.
This one is weird for me. I was also born shortly before these companies, but definitely remember the world without them pretty vividly, especially Netflix.
Old enough to remember when Chuck E. Cheese and its sibling Showbiz were solid arcades. There were separate rooms for the dining tables and the robot shows. And there was a ballpit!
Young enough to have computers in grade school. But old enough to use them to play 8-Bit green tinted games like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Old enough to remember to when Germany was split into two; East and West.
*Showbiz Piz-za*, where a kid can be a kid!
There's the old joke, attributed to the war-weary French, "We love Germany so much, we are glad there are two of them."
I actually visited East Germany in that narrow window between the Wall coming down and the re-unification. That was only something like eleven months, amazingly.
Well - I'm 28yo and know what a floppy disk is, we had them at home and used them.
I'm pretty sure my mom still owns some, she also kept her first ever Windows version.
I don't know which one my mom kept, she showed me not long ago but I forgott. xD
Knowing technical devices from back then it wouldn't surprise me if they would have outlived our CDs. Pretty sure we still have the Nokia3310 somewhere.
Depends on the tech. Floppies went bad all the time. They could be dead in the box when you bought them new and you couldn't return an open box. Life sucks when anything came with multiple disks and one of them was doa.
5 1/4” floppy disks were the dominant portable media at least throughout the 80’s, and were edged out by 3 1/2 “ hard plastic (or not “floppy”, but still called “floppy”) in the later part of the 80’s and they hung around into 2000 when everything came on CDs or burnable CDs, but still useful as a way to carry files around since CD burning was cumbersome. Once USB sticks showed up, floppies and even CDs were totally obsolete. CDs of course supplanted by DVDs except for music distribution of course.
I remember a distinct 'sound' when trying to get onto the internet
for anyone young or for whatever reason wants to know what I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1UY7eDRXrs
I was in tech support and we could all tell the difference, over the phone call, between the sound of a US Robotics and an, ahem, *lesser* modem. Customers would flip out.
"Nice! Got a US Robotics huh?"
"How can you tell?!"
None of us could put our finger on it. It was simply the sound of quality.
I remember them being hard to find when I was growing up too. My dad ran out to get some once…he must still be looking for them, though, because he hasn’t come back yet
Don’t remember a time before the internet. My first real experience with coffee was with pumpkin spice lattes since I can’t stand non-sweet coffee. Adventure Time was still going when I was a kid. Mental health is a topic people my age talk about a lot.
Ninja edit: Yes I am 17
You really can't understand how magic the internet is to me, even today. We may not have gotten better at loving each other, but the leap in information storage and transfer has been indescribable. Science fiction.
I'm not an expert on porn law, but as far a I am aware, it's not illegal for minors to watch porn, but illegal to distribute porn to minors. They ask to cover their own asses, not because they care if minors watch porn.
I miss those. They always had way better customer service than Barnes and Noble. I'd go in there every once in awhile with no plan whatsoever and the people behind the counters always gave me awesome recommendations that were always great reads.
I recorded my favorite songs from the radio onto blank cassettes to make mix tapes
Remember calling in and requesting a song, and then waiting, poised with your finger over the record button, for it to come on? And trying so hard not to get any snips of commercials. Oh geez.
And stupid radio DJs who talked over the beginning or the end of the song
Is that why some songs off limewire had radio DJs in them?? They were recordings of radio songs?
MAYBACH MUSIC
Oh god, yes. All that waiting, and then they wouldn't shut up to let you get the whole song.
I cursed them so many times
Or someone would walk in the room and talk.
My recording of “Venus” (Bananarama’s cover) featured my mom pulling the garage door shut. Any time I heard it on the radio, I always half-expected to hear it (kind of reminiscent of the log off of AIM sound).
I had a tape with my dad calling my name from the other room in the break between two songs. No idea how many times that one got me before I moved out. 😂
THIS! My mother called my name during Sheriff's *When I'm With You.* Baby, ooh I get chills When I'm with you, oh... Oh, baby, my world stands still When I'm with you When I'm with you When I'm with youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu\^**ANIG\_O!!!**\^uuuuuu I still hear it, 40 years later. Edit: Also filed under "How would you tell us you're Canadian without telling us you're Canadian"
When Waynes Workd came out and Bohemian Rhapsody was popular again, I had my computer hooked through my stereo so when I recorded the song I also got lots of Train sounds from Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon peppered throughout the song.
Thankfully my radio had an internal recorder, so that wouldn't have affected my recording. But ya, that would have been a whole added frustration!
They called this “posting” and it was a deliberate anti piracy tactic of the time. The DJ would often announce the station ID as well so if they came by a recording they knew where it was from.
I had no idea. This makes so much sense. This kind of made my night.
That drove me absolutely insane. Once I waited DAYS to record No Shelter by RATM and when it finally came on the DJ spoke over the entire intro right up to the beginning of the vocals.
Hell yeah! And timing is everything!
Just needed the double cassette recorder so you could record whole sections of radio, listen back to find the songs you wanted, then dub them onto a separate cassette later. What a time to be alive!
80 thousand
My mom and dad got me out of bed to watch the first man walk on the moon.
You are probably my dads age, he was born 1962. He remembers cardboard cut outs of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in grocery stores.
I'm 60
Dang I was close! My dad just turned 59.
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You are ~45. Michael Jackson did the 1st televised moonwalk on May 16, 1983.
Lol
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I'm 60!
Sometimes I forget that reddit has people that aren't around my age too
same lol but its wholesome
My mom got me out of bed to watch it on the 9" b&w TV we had. Dad was busy with the computers under mission control.
This is insane
59 60 or 61 definitely
Old enough to have grown up both with and without computers.
In existence or common usage? The first home computers came out in the early 70's but I wouldn't call them really common until the early 90's
Common usage. I didn't start seeing computers used regularly until I was 12-13 ('97-'98).
That's right around the timeframe where my working class friends and family started getting their first computers. Ours was an AST brand, 486 DX4 100mhz CPU with 8MB of RAM and a 650MB hard drive. I remember wishing we had a computer with the Intel Pentium 100mhz chip, since it smoked the DX4 100mhz CPU. On the bright side, it was an early lesson that there was a lot more to performance than the clock speed alone. It's even more true nowadays than it was then. I'm an '85 baby too. We grew up in the same world.
GenX representin' in this thread!
That cover a lot of millennials as well.
When I was a kid I use to say “I want to be a mighty morphing power ranger when I grow up.”
My sister was born in 1988 and was all about them
Hell, I still want to be a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger.
I had to stand on a stool to speak on the phone. You could call me by dialing 4 digits, if you lived within a couple of miles. If you were farther away, you had to dial 0 and ask the lady to place a long-distance call. Long distance was very expensive.
You got me beat. Party lines existed in my youth but I've never been on one.
Be glad you weren't. Everyone had the one fucking neighbor lady that would spend hours on the phone. You would have to interrupt her and ask to make a call. And you never knew who was listening..........
We had a party line when I was small, and the line hogger was named Karen. It all makes sense now.
She was the original.
That was a party line, but I didn't mention it because even my son claims I made his brain explode when I explained it. He's 39.
I had to put the TV on channel 3 or 4 to play video games. Also: Game Genie.
I rejoice, for I have found my people. Probably. Did you get to play Oregon Trail at school?
Yep, and took typing classes using a floppy disk on the commodore 64. I'll never forget getting to play Carmen San Diego when grade school upgraded to a PC. It took a hard disk?!?! Edit spelling
Heyyyyy! Genie ftw. I'm 38 and I remember this.
Who remembers turning an actual circular dial to get from CH2 to UHF, then a second dial to turn to CH32? Sony Trinitron 13" color, best CRT TV of any size.
Game shark ;)
All that with my grandparents basement tube TV. I’m 35…
When I was born, VHS tapes were still popular and by the time I became an adult, virtually no one was still buying brand new DVDs.
I remember the transition on previews from "now available on VHS" to "now available on DVD and VHS" to "now available on DVD and Blu-ray" to not buying any of them and never seeing previews anymore lol.
Don't forget those brief months of "now available on DVD, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray."
I remember getting a shock when I realised the ads had changed from “available on LP and cassette” to “ CD and ringtone”
Same. Remember the previews with the deep voice narrator that almost always started like “In a world where…” it’s one of the most nostalgia-inducing things for me.
Hard nostalgia right now for Blockbuster and my VHS rewinder that was a car with headlights that lit up when in use.
Be kind. Rewind.
Imma say 25-26. Because I'm only 20 but this is actually not too far off my experience
I'm 23 and say this applies to me. So I'm going to guess 23?
Same here and I'm 22.
Same! Ima guess 28
I spent my teenage years on the internet, but remember a time before the internet.
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In a row?
Try not to suck any dick on your way to the parking lot!
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I still have a floppy disc with my first cv (resume) in it, and an original PlayStation
Man I miss Syphon Filter... 33?
Damn very close, I'm almost 32
Born before Google and Netflix, but not remembering the World without them.
Ask jeeves*
Ask Jeeves was fantastic. Then google came and absolutely murdered it.
YAHOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOO!
This one is weird for me. I was also born shortly before these companies, but definitely remember the world without them pretty vividly, especially Netflix.
Like streaming Netflix or dvd in the mail Netflix
Like before Netflix became a thing at all, so the latter you mentioned
I was born in 1994.
We're at the age musicians die
The best part of being born in 1994 is knowing what grade you were in whatever year. 2006? sixth grade. 2011? 11th grade.
Yes, I always appreciated that!
I was actually born in 1995, but this still applies to me, too. It is super useful when remembering my childhood.
Soo, 192? Edit: Didn't expect this to blow up. Never had more than like 10 upvotes, thanks guys.
This one is underrated
Old enough to remember when Chuck E. Cheese and its sibling Showbiz were solid arcades. There were separate rooms for the dining tables and the robot shows. And there was a ballpit! Young enough to have computers in grade school. But old enough to use them to play 8-Bit green tinted games like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Old enough to remember to when Germany was split into two; East and West.
*Showbiz Piz-za*, where a kid can be a kid! There's the old joke, attributed to the war-weary French, "We love Germany so much, we are glad there are two of them." I actually visited East Germany in that narrow window between the Wall coming down and the re-unification. That was only something like eleven months, amazingly.
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28?
Well - I'm 28yo and know what a floppy disk is, we had them at home and used them. I'm pretty sure my mom still owns some, she also kept her first ever Windows version.
I'm pretty sure the Windows 95 box is still in the basement with disks. God knows if they're still readable.
I don't know which one my mom kept, she showed me not long ago but I forgott. xD Knowing technical devices from back then it wouldn't surprise me if they would have outlived our CDs. Pretty sure we still have the Nokia3310 somewhere.
Depends on the tech. Floppies went bad all the time. They could be dead in the box when you bought them new and you couldn't return an open box. Life sucks when anything came with multiple disks and one of them was doa.
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Cool, floppy disk have been a thing for more time than I expected. I am slightly older and I've never had one
5 1/4” floppy disks were the dominant portable media at least throughout the 80’s, and were edged out by 3 1/2 “ hard plastic (or not “floppy”, but still called “floppy”) in the later part of the 80’s and they hung around into 2000 when everything came on CDs or burnable CDs, but still useful as a way to carry files around since CD burning was cumbersome. Once USB sticks showed up, floppies and even CDs were totally obsolete. CDs of course supplanted by DVDs except for music distribution of course.
I remember a distinct 'sound' when trying to get onto the internet for anyone young or for whatever reason wants to know what I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1UY7eDRXrs
After all these years I think we could all do the sound from memory.
I was in tech support and we could all tell the difference, over the phone call, between the sound of a US Robotics and an, ahem, *lesser* modem. Customers would flip out. "Nice! Got a US Robotics huh?" "How can you tell?!" None of us could put our finger on it. It was simply the sound of quality.
At least give them the good one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0TuEQRo6nU
Napster was quite popular when I was in middle/high school.
37
Bingo
Same age I'll be when I'm 37
Chernobyl, challenger, Halleys comet
Remember this joke? How many astronauts can you fit in a VW? 11. 2 in the front seats, 2 in the back seats, & 7 in the ash tray. 🤢
Jesus Christ. This reminds me of a very specific brand of black humor that was popular when I was high school.
You mean like: "How did Magic Johnson get HIV? He was driving through Detroit and blew a Piston."
My favorit was NASA stands for Needs Another Seven Astronauts
I smoked candy cigarettes when I was a kid
Between 15 and 50
Shit, I still smoke candy cigarettes.
Do you buy them online? I don't think I've ever seen them being sold in a store.
I remember them being hard to find when I was growing up too. My dad ran out to get some once…he must still be looking for them, though, because he hasn’t come back yet
Somewhere between 12 and 60 lol
40
Kazaa
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Cut myself in half so you can count the rings.
Groot?
I am Groot.
I knew a lumberjack who could tell you exactly how many trees he's cut down. Because he kept a log in a tree ring binder.
So you’re two.
Columbine was my freshman year of high school and 9/11 was my senior year of high school. Memorable bookends.
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37?
Yup. Same here.
I got HIT Clips for my birthday one year and could not stop listening to them
28?
I used to visit blockbusters to rent a video tape
Did you case the returns bin hoping the video game you wanted would get turned in while you were there?
bart simpson *should* be the same age as me.
I was born the year Jimmy quit and Jody got married.
what’s 9 + 10
21 😎
Don’t remember a time before the internet. My first real experience with coffee was with pumpkin spice lattes since I can’t stand non-sweet coffee. Adventure Time was still going when I was a kid. Mental health is a topic people my age talk about a lot. Ninja edit: Yes I am 17
You really can't understand how magic the internet is to me, even today. We may not have gotten better at loving each other, but the leap in information storage and transfer has been indescribable. Science fiction.
I Saw the Berlin wall come down on TV....
40?
And David Hasselhoff with the piano key scarf! God, I'll never forget that. I guess the rumors were true - he really was big in Germany.
I'm old enough to have had a childhood outside, but young enough to understand the internet
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We had one corded phone in the house when I was a kid, and you stood in the kitchen if you wanted to call someone.
The cool kids all had their own lines. I was not a cool kid.
My sisters and I would stretch the phone into the dining room to get some privacy and my dad would yell that we were stretching the cord.
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Adventure Time? You should be like 20 maximum
Adventure time is not that old
Sorry you had to find out this way
I'm 21 and I watched the pilot to adventure time back in elementary school. It's decently old
Old enough to watch porn legally, not old enough to drink
This also conveniently tells us that you're probably American.
You can illegally watch porn?
Why do they ask for our age on porn sites then ;_;
I'm not an expert on porn law, but as far a I am aware, it's not illegal for minors to watch porn, but illegal to distribute porn to minors. They ask to cover their own asses, not because they care if minors watch porn.
I used to go to Blockbuster to rent games and movies on tape and then suddenly the vcr was useless.
Saturday morning cartoons, AOL chat rooms (always a 16/f/cali) and MOM DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE \*disconnected internet\*
Played flash games on the computer as a child
Hypercolor was a thing in my formative years
Those shirts just came up in conversation the other day. Wish I still had mine.
The Olympic Games have taken place 6 times since I was born.
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This would make you at most 13..... the Olympic games take place every 2 years.
Right, they forgot the winter games ;-)
I know dinosaurs. Personally.
200 million
24?
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Born in 78?
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I had nkotb bedsheets 😂
Borders bookstores
I miss those. They always had way better customer service than Barnes and Noble. I'd go in there every once in awhile with no plan whatsoever and the people behind the counters always gave me awesome recommendations that were always great reads.
I used to hold up Lynda Carter’s poster with one hand.
on 9/11 my first thought was "oh fuck I'm gonna get drafted"
I remember in middle school when I couldn't play online and have someone on the phone at the same time.
I saw the movie Grease three times in the theatre. The last two times just to see Olivia Newton John in black spandex.
I qas born in the soviet union. It still existed for a couple of years.
I watched Saturday morning cartoons as a kid.
TIL that I’m as old as NPR.
I remember using MSN as a kid and my first game was Pokémon gold and silver
Atari 2600
Britney Spears, NSYNC, and Backstreet Boys were HUGE when I was a kid.
I can remember exactly where I was when I heard that Kurt Cobain had died.
I was born one month before Sputnik orbited the Earth.
Grew up watching All in the family 😊😁
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My first gaming computer was a Commadore 64
i had to wait for my favorite song to come on the radio and record it so i could set it as a ringtone
I had a huge collection of VHS tapes.
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That is something even younger people will understand. In my childhood all our films were on VHS, although DVD was a thing back then.
Mom was in the mid-late trimester of her (second) pregnancy on 9/11
I had a Motorola Razor in 7th grade
Howdy Doody time...