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[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm around the same age and I'm pretty sure we had Google on our phones by the time we could drink. That was the in between time where they still had buttons, but they had browsers and colorful screens. First iPhone released in 07. We were pretty much the first ones to have 'smartish' phones, though, so some people definitely still had snake bricks.

I think most people also still weren't used to having the world's knowledge in their pockets and would forget that Google was even there, too. It's crazy how easily urban legends and false rumors spread around back then, before everybody knew how to fact check. I remember some particularly interesting ones about Marilyn Manson and Lil Bow Wow.

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

In many European countries the drinking age is 18 and in some the drinking age for beer and wine is 16. So we could be talking about as early as 2004.

[-] froh42@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was legally allowed to drink beer in 1985 with 16. I had my first mobile phone in 1997 or so.

Yeah, fuck, I'm old.

But I definitely had bar trivia discussions before I was online.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Our legal drinking age is 18, but we were binge drinking every Friday from the age of 15. Not one bartender gives a shit here. At least back in the day. That's 2003-2004.

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