I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."
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Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.
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Crash Bandicoot was my first game.
Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?
I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.
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I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.
My childhood pics are Polaroids.
I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.
My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM
That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!
I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.
I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart
The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.
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That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?
I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out
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My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.
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 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.