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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:12:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: NFW that 1980 is millennial. So the Gen X cohort is only 16 years deep? |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:17:58 PM EDT
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1978. Played Oregon trail on a PET computer in school. Learned to multiply playing a game where you earned fighter jet weapons by doing math then went on a bombing/air-to-air fighting run. Probably cause a meltdown today
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:18:12 PM EDT
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Early 80's. I vehemently fucking refuse to accept the bullshit notion that people born 80-85 are the same generation as those born after ~93ish. My brother (1994) is a totally different life form that I am. I grew up with a bmx bike, no helmet, no pads and a gun strapped to my back. It was a .22 Benjamin that set me back 119 bucks. It took me months of mowing yards to earn that sweet ass gun. I'd cruise the neighborhood for chicks to make-out with and if they were not out I'd hit the river and commit genocide on snapping turtles and snakes. My brother grew up in a world where the internet was known. He had cable TV. He thinks collectivism is workable with a benevolent dictator. We endlessly argue about how retarded that is. I grew up in an era where you could legit fight it out in the parking lot and then become best friends. Loaded rifle racks in trucks and beds full of shot shells were common. He was suspended from school for writing an editorial about how ineffective a "tucked shirt" policy would be at stopping guns and drugs. He's been lashed at the alter of PC culture and yet still buys into their world view. He can't change a tire or do any significant vehicle maintenance. I replaced the waterpump on his Jeep last summer. It was a belt, 3 bolts and a trip to NAPA. Fuck Barney. Fuck the Power Rangers. ThunderCats, G.I. Joe and He-Man are superior. The only valid fucking strategy on Oregon Trail is to load your wagon up with ammo, shoot everything, sink at the first river crossing because you have 4 tons of ammo, keep shooting everything, and then die. Early 80's kids are not fucking Millennials! 
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:22:32 PM EDT
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It fluctuates a bit between people's definitions of what the cutoff dates are for each generation, but the 15-18 year range is pretty close for all of them. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: NFW that 1980 is millennial. So the Gen X cohort is only 16 years deep? |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:24:37 PM EDT
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fond memories of green screen oregon trail and the next one (the side scroller color one)
meager rations, light weight, and fast pace ftw! |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:26:13 PM EDT
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Some of you guys are acting ridiculous. You're treating this like you just got a 23andme test, and found out you're not related to Geronimo, like you'd always been told growing up.
Being a Millenial isn't another "species". It doesn't make you genetically defective. It's just a marketing thing really. Different generations tend to respond to different marketing, style, and design cues, and have different consumer habits. They grew up with different experiences. I'm Xgen, and while computers and computer games did become a thing in my childhood, they weren't a huge part of my early childhood, like they might have been for someone born in 1980's. I can remember the horrors of hippies, disco, and the Carter administration. When I was a teenager, and young adult, the Boomers called us slackers. Now everyone is dumping on the Millennials. Next they'll dump on Zgen and whatever they call the generations to come after. It's just the way people act as they get older. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:31:12 PM EDT
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1980 checking in. We are definitely the best generation able to live in both phases. We can live with or without all the modern devices . |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:36:08 PM EDT
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I will just leave this here
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:37:31 PM EDT
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AKA analog childhood and digital adulthood. Green screen oregon trail, NES Duckhunt, early SNES, VHS tapes, Sony Walkman, Parachute pants and bowl cuts. Later on dial-up and AOL chatrooms, N64 blowing minds. Metalica and seattle grundge. Fuck yeah. We weren't born into technology, but we made it our bitch! 1982 checking in homies.1972 GenX here. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:39:41 PM EDT
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 1980 Rural Follow me pussies! We are going to make America great again. (This was the Rambo big wheel...I owned it. I had less fat rolls than the above specimen, but was no less awesome.) Machine gun in the front-ammo box in the back. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:47:03 PM EDT
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Some of you guys are acting ridiculous. You're treating this like you just got a 23andme test, and found out you're not related to Geronimo, like you'd always been told growing up. Being a Millenial isn't another "species". It doesn't make you genetically defective. It's just a marketing thing really. Different generations tend to respond to different marketing, style, and design cues, and have different consumer habits. They grew up with different experiences. I'm Xgen, and while computers and computer games did become a thing in my childhood, they weren't a huge part of my early childhood, like they might have been for someone born in 1980's. I can remember the horrors of hippies, disco, and the Carter administration. When I was a teenager, and young adult, the Boomers called us slackers. Now everyone is dumping on the Millennials. Next they'll dump on Zgen and whatever they call the generations to come after. It's just the way people act as they get older. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 7:52:25 PM EDT
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AKA analog childhood and digital adulthood. Green screen oregon trail, NES Duckhunt, early SNES, VHS tapes, Sony Walkman, Parachute pants and bowl cuts. Later on dial-up and AOL chatrooms, N64 blowing minds. Metalica and seattle grundge. Fuck yeah. We weren't born into technology, but we made it our bitch! 1982 checking in homies. 
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Posted: 5/27/2019 8:10:35 PM EDT
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiPKF6gU0AAEjeX?format=jpg&name=large 1980 Rural Follow me pussies! We are going to make America great again. (This was the Rambo big wheel...I owned it. I had less fat rolls than the above specimen, but was no less awesome.) Machine gun in the front-ammo box in the back.  Man if you had the Rambo 45er in the holster on your hip with binos around your neck while riding this thing around the neighborhood you were basically invincible.
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Posted: 5/27/2019 8:25:30 PM EDT
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Being a Millenial isn't another "species". It doesn't make you genetically defective. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 8:31:51 PM EDT
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Another member of the Oregon Trail micro-generation checking in.
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Posted: 5/27/2019 8:41:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: if you weren't old enough to appreciate rad, reality bites, conan, back to the future, VHS vs beta, olivia newton-john and samantha fox, the cars that go boom, the popularization of the condom, E.T., pads on your dirt bike, the PG-13 debate, civil defense shelters, and the trans-am, you're almost certainly a millennial. I have a copy of Rad on a thumb drive. Watched it my oldest a while back, and he was all about it. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 9:07:53 PM EDT
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I don't ever remember nuclear drills. I went to school during the 70's and 80's, either on base, or at school near a military base. By the time I was in school the naive idea that you could survive a nuclear exchange looked silly. That thought died out sometime in the 60's, before I was in school. We actually knew that an all out nuclear war was not winnable, and took some comfort at living on primary targets. I remember listening to the B-52's on alert when I was a kid in the early 80's. I actually took comfort when the last one took off and the engine sound faded into the distance. Because we were told in the event of nuclear war not all the crews would get off. So the sound of the last one's engines fading in the distance meant ...not today. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: We still did nuclear drills in the mid 80's and had to do classroom drills to the fall out shelter. We also did earthquake drills. I grew up in NE Maryland and Peachbottom was only 25 miles away or so.  We actually knew that an all out nuclear war was not winnable, and took some comfort at living on primary targets. I remember listening to the B-52's on alert when I was a kid in the early 80's. I actually took comfort when the last one took off and the engine sound faded into the distance. Because we were told in the event of nuclear war not all the crews would get off. So the sound of the last one's engines fading in the distance meant ...not today. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 9:13:09 PM EDT
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Some of you guys are acting ridiculous. You're treating this like you just got a 23andme test, and found out you're not related to Geronimo, like you'd always been told growing up. Being a Millenial isn't another "species". It doesn't make you genetically defective. It's just a marketing thing really. Different generations tend to respond to different marketing, style, and design cues, and have different consumer habits. They grew up with different experiences. I'm Xgen, and while computers and computer games did become a thing in my childhood, they weren't a huge part of my early childhood, like they might have been for someone born in 1980's. I can remember the horrors of hippies, disco, and the Carter administration. When I was a teenager, and young adult, the Boomers called us slackers. Now everyone is dumping on the Millennials. Next they'll dump on Zgen and whatever they call the generations to come after. It's just the way people act as they get older. There were two big changes that didn't hit until later, which I think really made the Millennials that we ridicule. Facebook came about right as I was leaving college, but didn't become widespread until a few years later. There was also the 'Great Recession' of 2008. I graduated college in 2005; everyone I knew either had a job or grad school, there was none of the unemployment or underemployment issues that graduates a few years later have, and the resultant crying over debt, living at home, etc. The post-GenX generation maybe did start with births ~1980, but other societal changes either cut that generation short, or at least orphaned us from the usual ~15-20 year generational cycle. We're not the stereotypical Millennial, and that's why those of us who are that age dislike being associated with them. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:28:12 PM EDT
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AKA analog childhood and digital adulthood. Green screen oregon trail, NES Duckhunt, early SNES, VHS tapes, Sony Walkman, Parachute pants and bowl cuts. Later on dial-up and AOL chatrooms, N64 blowing minds. Metalica and seattle grundge. Fuck yeah. We weren't born into technology, but we made it our bitch! 1982 checking in homies. Generation X is the group following the baby boomer generation (1946 to 1964) and preceding the millennials. The parameters that make up generation X range from 1965 to 1984 (but the dates are not set in stone). Then there are the xennials, known to be born when the first Star Wars trilogy was released. The Harvard Center uses 1965 to 1984 to define Gen X so that Boomers, Xers, and Millennials "cover equal 20-year age spans". Masnick concluded that immigration filled in any birth year deficits during low fertility years of the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:30:37 PM EDT
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81 checking in, haven't gotten diphtheria yet because we were vaccinated at public school. 
ETA: I wish i could play goldeneye |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:36:37 PM EDT
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1983 here.
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:39:36 PM EDT
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Welcome to reality. Millennials are '81/'82 to about '95. There are vast differences between those early and late within the generation though. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quoted: 1982 is solidly a Millenial, bruh I don't give a shit what the internet says. Damn mellennials trying to drag everyone into their shitty generation |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:44:11 PM EDT
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I got my second wife years before I got my first computer.
something off my something something . . . |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:51:14 PM EDT
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1983 here.
Definitely enjoyed Oregon Trail, had an NES and then later a gameboy (that I hooked up to my friends gameboy to play Mortal Kombat). Come to think of it, played Mortal Kombat on the arcade at the bowling alley my mom bowled at. Also had Mario Bros. downloaded on my Ti-86 in junior high school. Not sure I would consider myself a millenial, but also don't really care. I don't hold a lot of animosity towards millenials that the boomers seem to have. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:53:27 PM EDT
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84 here.
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Posted: 5/27/2019 10:55:43 PM EDT
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I got my second wife years before I got my first computer.
something off my something something . . . |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:06:01 PM EDT
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I thought the microgeneration that is being discussed was referred to as Vader Babies; kids born between 1977 and 1983. The tail end of GenX and the first couple of years of Millennial that share very little culturally with either larger cohort.
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:09:45 PM EDT
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Some of you guys are acting ridiculous. You're treating this like you just got a 23andme test, and found out you're not related to Geronimo, like you'd always been told growing up. Being a Millenial isn't another "species". It doesn't make you genetically defective. It's just a marketing thing really. Different generations tend to respond to different marketing, style, and design cues, and have different consumer habits. They grew up with different experiences. I'm Xgen, and while computers and computer games did become a thing in my childhood, they weren't a huge part of my early childhood, like they might have been for someone born in 1980's. I can remember the horrors of hippies, disco, and the Carter administration. When I was a teenager, and young adult, the Boomers called us slackers. Now everyone is dumping on the Millennials. Next they'll dump on Zgen and whatever they call the generations to come after. It's just the way people act as they get older. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:16:42 PM EDT
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I grew up near a major SAC base. We never had nuclear drills...we also knew that if WWIII kicked off, we'd probably never know about it... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quoted: We still did nuclear drills in the mid 80's and had to do classroom drills to the fall out shelter. We also did earthquake drills. I grew up in NE Maryland and Peachbottom was only 25 miles away or so. We actually knew that an all out nuclear war was not winnable, and took some comfort at living on primary targets. I remember listening to the B-52's on alert when I was a kid in the early 80's. I actually took comfort when the last one took off and the engine sound faded into the distance. Because we were told in the event of nuclear war not all the crews would get off. So the sound of the last one's engines fading in the distance meant ...not today. |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:17:30 PM EDT
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If you would have gotten a computer earlier, you would have known about the arfcom curse. We could have saved you a ton o' grief Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I got my second wife years before I got my first computer.
something off my something something . . . |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:18:32 PM EDT
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1986 ftw |
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:32:54 PM EDT
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Now in most toy isles of your nearest Walmart ( remember "the" Walmart, the first one came to my town in the eighties and was the place to be on Friday nights). My kid has been playing the card game version which has been a nightime favorite game for the kids when we go camping.
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:37:13 PM EDT
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Guess I'm in here. 1985
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:41:35 PM EDT
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1987 checking in, I hit most of your benchmarks
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Posted: 5/27/2019 11:42:12 PM EDT
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88 here.
Oregon trail on those old Apple computers till the 2nd grade. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:00:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe I missed it, but I haven't really seen any bitching about people dumping on Millennials in this thread. I also don't really think anyone is rejecting that they are part of the Millennial generation because of the people who dump on them. I think they're simply pointing out that there is a difference between early and late examples of the generation, and they prefer the more accurate descriptor. I'm sure that can be said for all the generations, but being that the definitions for the Millennial generation has a lot to do with the technology that they grew up with it might be a larger difference for Millennials than it was for other generations. If the whole purpose of grouping people into generations is for marketing, then this would be an important thing to understand. I'm GenX, but people born in the 80's are of another generation from me. But it doesn't really matter. Who cares? |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:03:59 AM EDT
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1986 ftw |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:07:32 AM EDT
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1986 ftw Best. Year. Ever. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:17:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Several post in this thread, and in general here on GD, people outright ridicule or at least alluded to the fact that they think being labeled a millennial is somehow a bad thing. This thread was started by someone who seems to think that millennials are something someone should not want to be. And several posters in this thread don't seem to want to be labeled a Millennial as if that's a bad thing. I don't think that's the case. I'm GenX, but people born in the 80's are of another generation from me. But it doesn't really matter. Who cares? |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:31:26 AM EDT
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1980 here. Oregon Trail was the shit.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:31:36 AM EDT
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79 here.
We were definitely in between eras. Got to experience some of the old school but still grew up with the stuff kids take for granted now and didn't get left behind the modern world. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:46:24 AM EDT
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The problem is people born in the early 1980s generally have more in common with children of the 1970s than they do those of the 1990s, yet "they" want to say the Millennial range is 1981-1996. I was older than 18 on 9/11 - it doesn't make much sense to lump someone who was 5 at the time with me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Millennials were so named because they came of age (18?) at the turn of the millennia right? I was born in 1979 and sometimes considered a Millennial and sometimes considered a Gen-Xer depending who you ask. I certainly can relate to the Oregon Trail micro Generation benchmarks. Then there is the GD definition of Millennial, anyone born after November 1963 is a Millennial walking around doing phone. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 3:49:37 AM EDT
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He was suspended from school for writing an editorial about how ineffective a "tucked shirt" policy would be at stopping guns and drugs.  WTF1980 here. Fuck Millennials. It's annoying how many "adults" have never had to deal with dial-up internet, or even a BBS, and can't comprehend mere megabytes, never mind kilobytes. But it's downright fucking disturbing that many of them were too young to have any memory of 9/11, and soon will have been born after it happened... As far as they are concerned, the TSA has always existed and is a good thing and there should be more of it. I can't handle this shit anymore. I just can't figure out how to move somewhere where I don't have to deal with people, but still have high speed internet to play games and troll morons... |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 4:01:19 AM EDT
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I was born in '76, and vividly remember playing Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego in 7th/8th grades. We didn't get cable until I was in high school, didn't get my 1st cell phone until '98 or '99, and didn't have Internet until around the same time.
I still have my original NES and N64, with quite a few games....need to drag the NES out for my 10 yr old. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:41:39 AM EDT
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Another proud Xennial checking in!
1982 here. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:43:01 AM EDT
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1986 ftw |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:46:24 AM EDT
[#47]
1983 master race
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:46:59 AM EDT
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1982 FTW!
I remember life before the internet |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:49:47 AM EDT
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1982 FTW! I remember life before the internet I 'member when I saw my first playboy... damn that was life changing. Then the internet became a thing and I saw my first internet bewbies on a slow ass dial-up connection haha |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:50:16 AM EDT
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1976 checking in. Im the real OG all you 80s posers can GTFO
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