Ask Lemmy

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

First manned space flight.

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.

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.

That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?

I still call them Opel Fruits

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.

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

16ish

Elvis and I were alive at the same 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.

I still feel shy when buying beer

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

I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

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

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

Old.

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

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 got one of the first home Pong machines for my 7th birthday