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.
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I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets
I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.
My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.
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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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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
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I have no idea about most of theese comments.
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I’m old but a young co-worker got me onto Lemmy.
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https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231 has results of a demographic poll for lemmy.ca.
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I was sixteen days old when the world ended and we were all thrown back into the stone age.
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I tried to make a portal to Aether.
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around the Cretaceous period