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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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Old enough for my first TV to be a black and white hand me down, not so old that my first vehicle had an 8-track. Old enough to have seared my skin on a schoolyard slide, young enough to have basically always had the Internet.

Guess my age!
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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Old enough for my first TV to be a black and white hand me down, not so old that my first vehicle had an 8-track. Old enough to have seared my skin on a schoolyard slide, young enough to have basically always had the Internet.

Guess my age!

40? (if I'm correct on vagueness of always having internet)
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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Real close, 41.

I'm a Xennial.. got nothing in common with Gen X except supposedly being part of it, but much more of a millenial here.

Sure I grew up under mechanical typewriters still being everywhere but they were replaced by computer screens really fast in the mid 80's so much that even had computers and macs by the time I got to high school.

My single most favorite moment in high school was a Macintosh that had broken down so my teacher put a paper over its screen with some scotch tape.. and instead of saying out of order, it said Mac-in-TRASH!

30 years later still remember it like it was yesterday!
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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I'm a Xennial.. got nothing in common with Gen X except supposedly being part of it, but much more of a millenial here.

Sure I grew up under mechanical typewriters still being everywhere but they were replaced by computer screens really fast in the mid 80's so much that even had computers and macs by the time I got to high school.

My single most favorite moment in high school was a Macintosh that had broken down so my teacher put a paper over its screen with some scotch tape.. and instead of saying out of order, it said Mac-in-TRASH!

30 years later still remember it like it was yesterday!
In order to take my junior high's computer class, I first had to take Keyboarding I and II, which were taught on electric typewriters.
 
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purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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Old enough to have played these arcade games that I now own, in an actual arcade as a kid (aside from the modern pins).

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Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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Old enough to have played these arcade games that I now own, in an actual arcade as a kid (aside from the modern pins).

xzrFbKS.jpeg

That reminds me I spent an entire summer trying to beat Nintento Super Mario.. that double Long Jump on 8-1 kept on pwning me though!
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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I’m old enough to remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. (which, if it’s done right, it should be)
 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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LA and other major US cities had some of the worst air quality in the world from the 50's to 70's.
 

nOOky

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Aug 17, 2004
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I'm not telling my age. But the first moving picture I saw in a theater was Star Wars, I used to fap to the women's undergarments' in the JC Penney catalog, and I watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea after school and Speed Buggy on weekends.