• oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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    Being a “__s kid” means that’s when you had your childhood. (From 5 or 6 to preteen-early teens) Even someone born in 97 isn’t a 90s kid.

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    Recently got asked by a youngster whether I know Pokémon.

    Kid … I was there, 3000 years ago at the beginning.

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      it took my mom and I half an hour to figure out how to leave the house when we first booted up pokemon blue

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      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.

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        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.

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          Reminds me of a time when my nephew was playing vintage Super Mario Kart and started trash talking me about how long they had been playing and that I didn’t stand a chance.

          “I was playing this since before you were born kid”

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        me when kids explain weird-ass minecraft lore to me when i’ve been there since it was a browser game

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      I was 22 when Pokemon started becoming popular in the US. You really feel being a Gen Xer in a Millenial nostalgia world!

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        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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        yeah, i’m an older Xennial and my younger sibling was not allowed to watch anime for reasons. My first handheld gaming console was my first smartphone in 2014? I don’t understand pokemans at all.

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          I have a neighbor who’s four years older than me, but the rift between 1983 and 1987, technology, seems insurmountable, it’s insane.

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            yeah. she had a smartphone when the first one came out. i didn’t get my first cell until 2007 because who wants people to be able to get ahold of them all the time

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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…😬

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    mfw over half my hair is gray and the kids online are complaining about being old

    mfw I get AARP monthly newsletters

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      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

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        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.

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      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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    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

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      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.

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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

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      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.

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        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

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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!

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        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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      No, thanks. You’ll always have better cultural references and more ironic detachment than my millennial folks, but we killed the most industries.

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        Oh, I don’t know about that. The best gaming came out during the millennial’s time. Gen X may have got the gaming ball rolling, but the 90’s and early 2000 really saw things take off in that department.