• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    12 days ago

    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 not 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.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits

  • s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started “Real World” and “Road Rules.”

  • Kattiydid@slrpnk.net
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    12 days ago

    Played in the creek (pronounced crik), caught pollywogs and toads and snakes. Walked barefoot to the farm down the street to buy sweet corn. Heard stories about my uncles finding dynamite in a cave near the railroad and bringing it home and passing it around at school before the fire department confiscated it all as well as stories of my great grandma holding my great grandpa at shotgun point till he did the chore he’d said he’d get to months before. I remember the internet screaming at me when I picked up the home phone. My dad’s first cell phone was a Nokia brick. The first Galaxy smart phone came out the year I graduated highschool.