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

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

I still call them Opel Fruits

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

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.

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

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

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

My first modem was 2400 baud.

16ish

Grew up using Vista

Old.

I still feel shy when buying beer

I'm barely still a Millenial. Which is kind of cool. I don't like the "generation names" before or after that much, and I liked that I grew up with non-invasive tech and non-existent smartphones during school. I was able to grow up with tech but none of the tech I dislike today. Also, tech was still easier to understand back then. I was able to learn how to create web sites for example when HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CGI was still in its infancy and not very complex yet. Of course I learned the growing complexitty as it all developed but the point is that it kind of grew with me. Which probably made several things easier to get into in the first place. Also, I still grew up with almost forgotten values such as privacy, and my whole youth life (as well as dumb things you did when young) isn't available online and therefore "gone". I kind of like it that way.

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 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

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

I got one of the first home Pong machines for my 7th birthday