I have a memory of getting annoyed because I kept writing 93 instead of 94 on my school work after the Christmas holiday was over
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Recently got asked by a youngster whether I know Pokémon.
Kid ... I was there, 3000 years ago at the beginning.
it took my mom and I half an hour to figure out how to leave the house when we first booted up pokemon blue
Son, I remember when people were confused about Mr. Game and Watch while I was fondly reminiscing about my first handheld while looking at my childhood through R.O.B colored glasses.
me when kids explain minecraft history to me
My kid is getting into Minecraft and it's so hard to not stop their excitement by being like "yeah, I know, I've been playing this for longer than you've been alive" because I love how excited they get learning about how to make basic shit (and they're playing ATM10,so there's a TON of shit they haven't even come close to seeing) and sharing that with me.
i prefer vintage story
"Kid you don't even know what Alpha means..."
me when kids explain weird-ass minecraft lore to me when i've been there since it was a browser game
Was it Youngster Joey? Did he show you his Rattata?
I sent him to the tower of souls same as I did with Gary. Never stop training
I was 22 when Pokemon started becoming popular in the US. You really feel being a Gen Xer in a Millenial nostalgia world!
Started getting popular... The original release of games in 1998 was an enormous success here in the US, Pokemon was popular from inception; when are you referring to?
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"Kids these days"^TM^ don't get any references before Pokemon...like McGuyvering, Voltron...so I resent Pokemon because of that...😬
I thought mcguyver was a simpsons thing for about 25 years until I learned the truth
I was born 95, but I was the youngest kid. I was exposed to a lot of 90's stuff that I probably wouldn't have been if not for that, like the snes felt really crusty and old by the time I would have been old enough to get my own console, but I grew up mirroring the excitement of my older peers for stuff like SMW and Plok. I miss a lot of stuff from the 90's and I was only ever 4 or younger in it hahahaha
I was born in '91 and a lot of what I associate with the '90s actually are things from the early '00s. I think part of it is because we moved around that time so memories of my old house and things that were from the actual '90s sort of faded in my mind.
Time shifted childhoods are a thing. Especially when you have no internet and live in the middle of nowhere.
You had to be born in the mid late 80s To truly appreciate the 90s
I would argue mid-late 70's actually. It's when we were in high-school.
Xelenials unite!
You underestimate just how long the 90's stuck around in some parts.
I was born in the 90's molded by the 90's, I didn't see the 2000's until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing but blinding.
90s ended for everyone on September 11th, 2001. From there on it's all been heartless shit, in lametta.
mid 70s. i am a 90s kid because all my highschool and vollege was in the 90s.. no one cares about a grunge 10 year old
GenX hates this one thing...
Thats not true, they hate most things.
Fuck you
This is what x, y and z can agree on
mfw over half my hair is gray and the kids online are complaining about being old
mfw I get AARP monthly newsletters
When I turned 30 I was quite ate up about it.
Now almost 20 years beyond that point, when a colleague turns 30, "oh whatever you're still just a baby lol"
Funny how that works
perspective and time is a bitch. I hear about my little nieces and nephews getting married or having kids and all I can remember is how tiny they were the last time I saw them.
I see them and I think, damn you're still kids.
I get aarp letters too, but it was also really common in the 90s and early 00s to fill in your birthday as the early half of the 1900s. So I think that’s just them thinking I’m over a hundred.
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It's kinda silly. I was born very early 90s, but since I was so young I don't actually remember much about that time. My teenager years were in 00s, so I much more identify as "millenial" or 90s baby rather than 90s kid
Totally. The difference between generations is cultural not time based.
Millennials are old enough remember where they were on 9/11. Similar to GenX and the Challenger explosion in 86. Not sure what the zoomer equivalent is -maybe Obama? For Gen alpha it'll be remembering the pandemic starting.
Millenials can't remember life before wireless communication.
Zoomer's can't remember life before the internet.
Alpha can't remember a time before smart phones.
Gen Beta wont remember a time before AI (shudders)
Not sure about boomers/genx... probably something about the vietnam war or colour tv.
Not sure about boomers/genx... probably something about the vietnam war or colour tv.
Boomers can't remember WW2, lol they're old but just barely not that old xd
Bro misses the ‘90s like he had rent to pay back then 😭
90s kid here. i dont get it.
The one person was born in 2000 and the other person complains about how young they are. It turns out that the complainer was born in 1999, and therefore is only a year older. Thus making the complaint a bit silly.
I like to think he was born on 12/31/99 to make it extra ridiculous.
As that aging adult who was born on 12/29/99, it is extra ridiculous because 90s kids laugh at you and 00s kids think you're already a corpse.
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thanks :)
ngl, now i feel a little silly for not having gotten it.
Its okay. Only 80s kids can appreciate the joke.
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I think of it like this. They’re a 90s baby, not a 90s kid.
90s kid would be more like born in the mid 80s to mid 90s so you have actual memories of the 90s.
I was born in 89, so remember a good portion of the 90s. It was a much simpler time but obviously we tend to romanticise the fun memories and quietly ignore how vastly more inconvenient daily life was.
Mobile phones were not really a thing yet so getting in touch with your friends required a combination of patience and sheer luck.
The internet was a different place entirely and was experienced in 30 minute chunks of time, just long enough to download a song or two before being kicked off for tying up the landline.
Daily entertainment was 4, maybe 5 analogue TV channels, plus a collection of VHS tapes which are all degrading by being rewatched constantly.
Every piece of life admin that you would normally do online today was instead done with pen and paper.
Honestly, I'm amazed we ever got anything done.
Cable tv existed in the 90s. I remember when DVR came out so you could record tv shows automatically and watch them later. You could even fast forward through the ads! No more doing the bathroom break speedrun to avoid them.
Cable wasn't as much as a thing over here except in specific areas, but if you were flush you might have satellite TV. Nothing so bourgeois for me though!
I was born in 84 so I grew up with the best of the late 80s and early 90s, the simplicity, style and general vibe of live in those days was amazing.
Come home from school, grab a sunny d, go watch cartoons while talking about how realistic the snes graphics looked. Play some pogs and replace the batteries on my yak bak, listening to oasis and reading goosebumps.
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