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My mum tried to ban me from watching South Park before South Park made fun of exactly that.

Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.

I have a child old enough to vote

I have been born

I haven't died yet

This was my first console

I remember Y2K

Tiny me's first computer game ever played:

I used to type Load ""

I saw star wars at the cinema when it was first released

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Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.

When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.

Be kind rewind

Fraggle Rock

Choplifter

Back when I was a kid, The Simpsons was a really good show

Equal parts lead and microplastics.

Waiting for your favourite song to be played on the radio and pressing record and pause on the cassette recorder at the exact right time. Massive feelings of win.

When I learned that MacGyver was American, knowing full well I saw him speak French in every episode, it made me very angry for some reason.

I was alive for 9/11 but have no memory of it

I got my first cell phone before the iPhone was first released

I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.

I was there, at Cape Canaveral, in the audience, when Challenger exploded. I had just finished Jr. Space Camp, and decided that if stuff like that was gonna happen while I was around NASA, then maybe I should look for an alternative career path.

I loved the star wars films that came out while I was a child, but the ones that were made after that are really bad.

White dog shit was a thing when I was a kid

My youngest kid just graduated highschool. Pell Grants literally covered my tuition (nothing else, but the classes) for college.

Also I know what this is

I was born during the One Child Policy in mainland China (I was the unlawful second-born child in my family)

My schools did active shooter drills when I was in K-12 school in the US

Super Mario World was the first video game I played.

I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.