i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.
I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out
The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.
I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart
That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?
My first modem was 2400 baud.
I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them
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First manned space flight.
Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.
I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.
I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler
The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.
I still call them Opel Fruits
I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:
A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,
B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and
C) The Littlest Hobo
Grew up using Vista
i though vista was basically dead on arrival?
If you had decent hardware for Vista, it ran like a champ. Those who upgraded from xp running on base specs had a hard time
As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).
Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.
Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.
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