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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

That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

First manned space flight.

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.

PR#6

My first modem was 2400 baud.

Younger than the iphone 👶

i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.

16ish

I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.

I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler

The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.

I still call them Opel Fruits

Grew up using Vista

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

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

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 still feel shy when buying beer

TVs have a UHF switch so I can finally watch more channels. I really hate putting tinfoil on the rabbit ears and opening the window to sometimes get these new channels though, but they work better if I hold onto the antenna. It's hard to see what I'm watching if I do this, but at least I can mostly hear what they're saying, and the picture is dark anyway, so even if I could see at this angle, it would be too dark and snowy.