Ask Lemmy

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

I was using 5,25″ discs.

You tryin' to rizz my skibiddi up? Aye? In ohio no less.

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

Ghostbusters

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.

"Alpha! Rita has escaped! Recruit a team of teens with attitude!"

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

My first gaming console was N64 and I remember my parent's paid 700 USD for our 2 bedroom apartment in decent area.

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'm barely still a Millenial. Which is kind of cool. I don't like the "generation names" before or after that much, and I liked that I grew up with non-invasive tech and non-existent smartphones during school. I was able to grow up with tech but none of the tech I dislike today. Also, tech was still easier to understand back then. I was able to learn how to create web sites for example when HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CGI was still in its infancy and not very complex yet. Of course I learned the growing complexitty as it all developed but the point is that it kind of grew with me. Which probably made several things easier to get into in the first place. Also, I still grew up with almost forgotten values such as privacy, and my whole youth life (as well as dumb things you did when young) isn't available online and therefore "gone". I kind of like it that way.

AIM away messages and the passive flex of who has the best 'buddyprofile' that may or may not link to a livejournal or xanga page

I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.

I was still a kid when my dad brought home a brand new Apple II. Before that computer appeared in his home office (and in my live, as I used that Apple so much more than he ever did ;)), I learned to type on my granddad's typewriter.

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.