Ask Lemmy

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I was born in 1978

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

Well, let's see.

I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.

Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

I'm as old as the NES.

I was using 5,25″ discs.

Pokemon Red was an amazing part of my childhood

When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.

I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

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.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

Grew up using Vista

I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).

Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.

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.

I still call them Opel Fruits

I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:

A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,

B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and

C) The Littlest Hobo

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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

My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.

There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money