i feel like lemmy skews older than the rest of the internet
i also made an anonymous poll because data is cool
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fGestKFfPddlgaPA4zOONy4GGq9DBUXoDfS-cqUsaPE/
you are in idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaa
I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.
1982
There were no TV commercials on Sunday.
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.
I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.
I also know what a VCR is.
my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits
During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started “Real World” and “Road Rules.”
If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool
My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM
My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died
The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia… because I liked the alliteration.
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.
I have no idea about most of theese comments.