We had a rotary phone growing up, people’s hair was big and their shoulders were padded. People cringed when their house had an avocado bath suite.
Computer class had modules on (MS-)DOS, Lotus 123, Wordstar, and GW-BASIC. The succeeding years, we were taught Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, and Turbo C. In the final year, we had HTML and CSS.
There’s a region in my brain still devoted to a few Wordstar keyboard shortcuts (
ctrl+KC
,ctrl+KK
,ctrl+Y
) but it’s degraded enough that I couldn’t remember what they’re for.Oh, Tetris on handhelds was the craze when I was in primary school. They were called by a different name though (copyright reasons, perhaps) but the generic name was “Brick Game”.
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Typos, missing punctuation and other mistakes.
I grew up playing flash games on the Internet
I have copies of the same bands’ albums in four different formats.
I played Mortal Kombat in highschool in MS-DOS.
Sweets were rationed when I was born. Sometime later I sold avocado bathroom suites…
They’re you’re fault haha!
We’re usually the tech support for generations before and after us
I have to feed my Tamagotchi!
There’s this new thing called pokemon
The most popular game machine in my first neighbourhood had unmoveable sprites for picture elements:
God I’d forgotten they existed! Blast from the past
The first thing I bought with money I earned myself was a Teal Gameboy Color.
I have not met anyone younger than me who remembers the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers.