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valtopps

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what decade did you have your childhood and what decade you wish you had your childhood in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 or 2000?
 
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I guess the 90's.
The kids today have it even easier so growing up in the future would have been so much better. 😛
 
i was born in 1963 i remember sitting in school looking at a small tv watching a man walking on the moon live, wow! Vietnam war ending, jfk, pong a video game you play on a tv, a tv with a remote what i dont have to get up and change the channel ? all 13.and pro keds sneakers we would go through sneakers fast, soles worn out, we would put a lot of miles on them. 60 muscle cars i had a 68 camaro wish i didnt sell it. corner store that sold penny candy 25 cents lasted all day. i rode my bike all day we didnt have cell phones had to see what my friends were up to. what about music oh man the bands. poor kids today. i think i had the best childhood anyone can ever wish for. late 60's 70's
 
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Born in 1990... so my childhood was in the 90s I guess...

I gotta say the time period is really irrelevant since most of my childhood was based around riding a bicycle and lots of dysfunctional family shit. Although playing SNES and N64 sure doesn't hurt my case.
 
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i was born in 1963 i remember sitting in school looking at a small tv watching a man walking on the moon live, wow! vietnam war ending, jfk, pong a video game you play on a tv, a tv with a remote what i dont have to get up and change the channel ? all 13. 60 mussle cars i had a 68 camarro wish i didnt sell it. corner store that sold penny candy 25 cents lasted all day. i rode my bike all day we didnt have cell phones had to see what my friends were up to. what about music oh man the bands. poor kids today. i think i had the best childhood anyone can ever wish for. late 60's 70's
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You remember JFK dying when you were 0?

I was little in the 80s, so I consider myself a 90s kid.
 
I was born in 81. my conscious childhood years would probably mostly be late 80's/early 90's, but I remember more 90's stuff than 80's (and a lot of the 80's stuff that I associate with my childhood I suspect I just remember from daytime syndication... stuff like Webster, Punky Brewster, and the other classic sitcoms of the era. I don't remember being allowed to stay up late to watch prime time shoes on a regular basis before 21 Jump Street and that was only because that was when my dad started working nights and my mom would let my sister and I stay up late with her)

I get into disputes with my friends when they call themselves children of the 80's... like, dude -- you weren't listening to Flock of Seagulls and wearing members only jackets when you were 6.

I almost wish I was born a couple years earlier or later so that I wasn't smack in the middle of a nebulous area of being too young for gen x and too old for gen y.
 
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90s definitely. Born 1982.

Wish? I don't think I would change it. But if I had too.. maybe the 60s or 70s. If I can pick the future then 2100.
 
Born in 88, so, the 90's. Given your choices, I'd pick the 2000s, just because the future is generally better than the past.
 
Born in 1984 so most of what I can remember happened in the 1990's.

I would have preferred the 80's because of all the cool new stuff that happened then in technology, computers, music, movies... Everything was new back then. In the 90's the initial wow factor had worn off. Of course my first computer was the C64 in 1992, so I guess I was pretty much a part of it anyway.
 
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Born in 88, so, the 90's. Given your choices, I'd pick the 2000s, just because the future is generally better than the past.
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This. Best time for a childhood is right now.

Because of computers, there's a lot of bullshit I never had to put up with as a kid from the 80s. I never had to use a slide rule, I never had to use a type writer, I never had to do manual drafting, and I mostly didn't need to deal with the public library. The stuff kids have today is amazing. Next time you watch Seinfeld, ask yourself if the problem in the show could be avoid if they all had cell phones or GPS or some other common device.
 
Born in the early 50's, but I consider myself a "child of the 60's."
As many things as have been fucked up for kids since then, I don't think I'd have chosen a later decade to be a kid, although growing up with video games would have been fun. (bought my first Atari 2600 in 1980)
 
80s and would not change. I can't even fathom a childhood where I would rather stay indoors playing video games/surfing the web as opposed to leaving the house as soon as the sun came up and returning only when it was time to eat.
 
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