Four words: Sonic the Hedgehog One

I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn't understand how a blind man could be reading to me.

Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.

I remember playing games on channel 3

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes

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I was born in 1983

My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.

I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

LOAD “*”,8,1

Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

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I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

I'm so old I've seen dozens of threads like this one.

Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

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Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.

Old enough that I don't follow trends anymore and I just kind of do my own thing.

My first computer game was a book with the code in the book that you had to type in.

I participated in FidoNet.

I saw labyrinth in the theaters

I used to get AOL demo CDs in the mail.

I grew up with an Amiga.

I had a gateway PC with the cow print box.

I cried when my Tamagotchi "pet" died.

My first coding class was Cobol and we used punch-cards.

(Side story, nothing strikes a feeling of dread more than the sound of cards being shuffled behind you.)

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

I saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.

I was in primary school when my father bought our first computer. A new 286.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

The opening scene to Apollo 13 (1995) features a party in Houston with NASA dudes as they gather around the television and Walter Cronkite announces as Neil Armstrong takes his first step on the moon. ( On YouTube )

I was not at that party, but I was at a party in Houston with NASA dudes as we watched the very first moon landing. My dad was a mission control guy with the black horn-rimmed glasses, white shirt and black tie, but Apollo 12, not 11 (Neil Armstrong) or 13 (the one that blew up and barely made it home).

I couldn't walk yet, and I got that the space man on the screen was super important, but at the time I was missing a whole lot of context. The blanks would fill in with time, since the US was super proud of that moment. It's my very first memory.

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.

I am two years older than TCP.

I am quite literally older than the Internet.

My first console was the Atari 2600, my first computer ran on MS-DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch drive, monochrome CRT and no mouse. My intro to Windows was version 3.1.

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

I don't remember 9/11

I saw AC/DC's second London gig in a pub

The Oregon Trail.