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I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler

I still call them Opel Fruits

Grew up using Vista

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

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

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.

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

My first computer was a Sinclair

TVs have a UHF switch so I can finally watch more channels. I really hate putting tinfoil on the rabbit ears and opening the window to sometimes get these new channels though, but they work better if I hold onto the antenna. It's hard to see what I'm watching if I do this, but at least I can mostly hear what they're saying, and the picture is dark anyway, so even if I could see at this angle, it would be too dark and snowy.

https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=Wz217ihcQ2VYjqWc

I started using computers on windows 10 (I am now a proud Kubuntu user)

I'm almost a full year older than the NES, but almost a year younger than the Famicom.

https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231 has results of a demographic poll for lemmy.ca.

I don’t remember where I was on 9/11 but I was drinking a lot back then so that doesn’t say much.

I was alive when the when there were more than 8 elevens.

I remember watching the Berlin Wall coming down on the news. I don't remember the Challenger explosion (edit: though I was alive for it, to be clear). I was out on my own during 9/11, worried as hell about being drafted. Whether or not I am gen-x depends upon which of the dates for its end you choose.

I was sixteen days old when the world ended and we were all thrown back into the stone age.