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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:53:07 AM EDT
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1983 only got dysentery in Iraq
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:53:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I blew up most of my GI joes with firecrackers, or melted them with a magnifying glass. I cry as an adult, because I'm sure theyre worth a pretty penny nowadays 
I'm also pretty sure the dial-up ringtone was dubstep before it's time my desert storm micro machines naplamed the Iraqis quite a bit |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 11:54:22 AM EDT
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How many liquors did you have today? Was just talking about Oregon Trail at work yesterday. That game was the shit. 
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:07:10 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. 
From what I've seen, I'm not convinced... 
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:13:09 PM EDT
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I am glad I am not the only melting action figure. my desert storm micro machines naplamed the Iraqis quite a bit Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: I blew up most of my GI joes with firecrackers, or melted them with a magnifying glass. I cry as an adult, because I'm sure theyre worth a pretty penny nowadays
I'm also pretty sure the dial-up ringtone was dubstep before it's time my desert storm micro machines naplamed the Iraqis quite a bit Relatively suprised I didn't get some gruesome burn scars that day lol |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:14:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:22:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's my understanding. I was born in 90 and when I graduated in 2008 we were some crass, non PC motherfuckers. I'm not sure what happened since then. Must've started with FBHO. As much as I agree FBHO, I think it's mostly because of social media. I know that sounds old man yelling at clouds dumb, but that shit changed us. Changed everything and everyone. At what point it caught up to you all depends, but I think it hit certain age groups harder than others. Those who weren't ensnared in it's trap still have to deal with the fallout. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:31:47 PM EDT
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I distinctly remember burning one of these. The amount of black smoke it put out was impressive
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1985...I’ve been going through all my old legos lately from the early 90s. Took me hard back to my childhood. Also, went through my gi joes as well.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:32:37 PM EDT
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I'm inclined to agree. I think Nintendo 64 was one of the defining moments that seperate Xennials and Millenials. If your earliest/first console system was N64, you might be a millenial. No offense though. It really blew my mind, after years in a linear 2 dimentional format of nintendo/SNES and experiencing the 3D type ability to explore around in N64. That was amazing. That is the moment when games became "gaming". Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Borderline. I typically call 1985 the cutoff, but depending on your specific circumstances, you might sneak in. I think Nintendo 64 was one of the defining moments that seperate Xennials and Millenials. If your earliest/first console system was N64, you might be a millenial. No offense though. It really blew my mind, after years in a linear 2 dimentional format of nintendo/SNES and experiencing the 3D type ability to explore around in N64. That was amazing. That is the moment when games became "gaming". |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:34:29 PM EDT
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I could do with some Oregon Trail I stacked meat DEEP on my wagon We may have all died a horrible shitting death, but we weren't hungry.  
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:36:20 PM EDT
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83er here.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:48:03 PM EDT
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If you learned the dewey decimal system and upon reading the last few words had a sudden and strong recollection of the smell of card catalogs you are not a millennial.
If you have no idea what I'm referring to, you're either a millennial or illiterate. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 12:53:05 PM EDT
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1982 is solidly a Millenial, bruh Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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: 5/28/2019 12:57:49 PM EDT
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I am dying of dysentery as I type this.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:03:40 PM EDT
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1965er here. We had a TRS-80 COCO, a VIC-20, and an Atari 800 at our school. I built a Heathkit Z-100 in 1983, but then got a Commodore 64 with my corn detasseling money my senior year and I was hooked.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:04:22 PM EDT
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1982 Here Checking In.
Yes Oregon Trail Gen. I remember reading that article it is so true. From Dewy Decimal to Google. No Cell Phone is High School...Bag phone if your lucky. Black Green Screen Nokia in College.. Flip phone at grad texting still hadn't caught on. No Smart Phone until years later. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:04:28 PM EDT
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88/06 here and I concur. We weren't like these fucking weirdo kids nowadays. But we had to interact, we didn't bury our heads into phones even though we had them. We could still go out and play until the street lights came on. Somehow that all changed overnight (seemingly). As much as I agree FBHO, I think it's mostly because of social media. I know that sounds old man yelling at clouds dumb, but that shit changed us. Changed everything and everyone. At what point it caught up to you all depends, but I think it hit certain age groups harder than others. Those who weren't ensnared in it's trap still have to deal with the fallout. Over the last 10 years identitarian politics along with the adoption of ideas from postmodern philosophy really have captured the zeitgeist. I'm not saying that everything was bliss and harmony before the late noughties, but at least to me things seemed a lot better in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's, then they are now. It seem like the country has really gone backwards on race relations. At least in the media it seems that way. I never remember there being quite so much identitarianism. Of course, my personal experience is totally different then what I see being pushed through entertainment, media, and internet. If I log out, and tune out I feel a hell of lot better about reality. Which is what I'm doing more and more. AR15 and few other forums are my only "social media", I've quit everything else. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:08:33 PM EDT
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I was the only kid in my class to "Beat" Oregon Trail. (original green giant floppy disc drive version)
When they updated it in the 90's it became easy as hell with mouse aiming and all. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:11:21 PM EDT
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If you learned the dewey decimal system and upon reading the last few words had a sudden and strong recollection of the smell of card catalogs you are not a millennial. If you have no idea what I'm referring to, you're either a millennial or illiterate.
I remember the card catalogs. Have managed to forget most of what I knew about dewey, but I don't spend hours wandering around the library a few times a week like I did when I was a kid. I remember when they switched to computer terminals, and I kept using the card catalog for a while, and then they took it off the floor. Opened up a lot of space Then I got damn good at using the terminals. They had an HP-UX server, and were using Wyse 60 terminals, and I think they were running Dynix but it's been a long time. I could find anything in that system. Then when I was a teen we got a computer and a modem - no internet yet. Local BBS's and the dial-up library system you could login to. A couple of years later they changed something in the configuration, and there was a new menu - and suddenly I had access to the internet for free, using Gopher and eventually some limited web use with the Lynx text browser. Once I got a real internet connection, I would still telnet in to that system. Sadly, they have dumped all of that and are now using a web-based app that sucks donkey balls.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:12:06 PM EDT
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If you learned the dewey decimal system and upon reading the last few words had a sudden and strong recollection of the smell of card catalogs you are not a millennial. If you have no idea what I'm referring to, you're either a millennial or illiterate. 
My mom was the school librarian. She had a card catalog restored and it's in her living room as a curio
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:14:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:25:31 PM EDT
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How many ZIMAS did you have today? |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:31:24 PM EDT
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1980 checking in
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:33:36 PM EDT
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My mom was the school librarian. She had a card catalog restored and it's in her living room as a curio Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If you learned the dewey decimal system and upon reading the last few words had a sudden and strong recollection of the smell of card catalogs you are not a millennial. If you have no idea what I'm referring to, you're either a millennial or illiterate.
My mom was the school librarian. She had a card catalog restored and it's in her living room as a curio A library without a card catalog is just a sad quiet space with books in it. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:35:03 PM EDT
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In. "No Oddjob" |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:37:00 PM EDT
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I miss you green Oregon trail. You taught me so much about life and the perils of crossing rivers and dying of dysentery.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:38:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is absolutely no doubt the rise of social media has changed society. In my opinion it's done more damage than good. But it is what it is. Over the last 10 years identitarian politics along with the adoption of ideas from postmodern philosophy really have captured the zeitgeist. I'm not saying that everything was bliss and harmony before the late noughties, but at least to me things seemed a lot better in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's, then they are now. It seem like the country has really gone backwards on race relations. At least in the media it seems that way. I never remember there being quite so much identitarianism. Of course, my personal experience is totally different then what I see being pushed through entertainment, media, and internet. If I log out, and tune out I feel a hell of lot better about reality. Which is what I'm doing more and more. AR15 and few other forums are my only "social media", I've quit everything else. Even better, now everyone can tell everyone else how wrong their thoughts, ideas and beliefs are with no repercussions in their day-to-day lives (for the most part). What could go wrong? |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:38:57 PM EDT
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Turok the dinosaur hunter on N64 forever made me a southpaw console gamer NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:38:59 PM EDT
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I remember my parents trying to take me to see Ghost Busters 2 and it was a problem because I was not older than 13. We were turned away by a couple theaters. We still have home movies shot on Betamax. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1990 and later without fail, and most of the people born after 1985 are definitely Millennials. We still have home movies shot on Betamax. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:41:04 PM EDT
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85’ checking in
Played Oregon trail in school as well. While eating Gushers. My shins were always cut, scabbed over, or freshly mangled from oversized bmx pedals My bike wheels were plastic 5 spoke, as God intended. Fire was our number 1 toy. No matter what we were doing or where we went, we would build a fire. You were fucked if you didn’t promptly return the CDs you were automatically shipped but didn’t want. It was worth it to get the first 10 you picked out for $5. I used to have the most badass AIM away messages later in middle school. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:48:23 PM EDT
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I tend to think of millennials as those that were still dependent children on 9/11.
It's so different discussing 9/11 with someone who wasn't old enough to control their own fate that morning. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:50:50 PM EDT
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81 here. I identify as a non-millenial, since I guess everyone else can identify as whatever the hell they want too.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:53:54 PM EDT
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1977 here. Oregon Trail is pretty much all computer class in middle school consisted of. It amazes me to see the level of technology today, compared to the rotary dial phone we had mounted on the wall when I was young.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 1:59:07 PM EDT
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1984 here. I build massive text walls about all the cool video games, movies, tv shows, etc.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:02:11 PM EDT
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1976 checking in. Im the real OG all you 80s posers can GTFO 
But you ain’t ready for the new generation of cyborg that is the Xennial 
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:10:17 PM EDT
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https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gifhttps://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gifhttps://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gif WTF 1980 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... Quote HistoryQuoted:
https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gifhttps://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gifhttps://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gif WTF 1980 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... Hell, I was born in 86 and have experienced everything you said. You're describing really late Millennials and GenZ, which is kind of the point of having the Xennial sub group. Quoted:
If you learned the dewey decimal system and upon reading the last few words had a sudden and strong recollection of the smell of card catalogs you are not a millennial. If you have no idea what I'm referring to, you're either a millennial or illiterate. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 2:48:24 PM EDT
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1982 Here Checking In. Yes Oregon Trail Gen. I remember reading that article it is so true. From Dewy Decimal to Google. No Cell Phone is High School...Bag phone if your lucky. Black Green Screen Nokia in College.. Flip phone at grad texting still hadn't caught on. No Smart Phone until years later. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 3:05:20 PM EDT
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Probably for the best timing for school: Too late for nuclear drills Too early for common core Also best timing for computers: Skills to use one developed in late childhood No internet until teenage years No social media until 21 Having twitter and picture phones in high school would have been bad news for me As a kid we grew up riding bikes and shooting guns with landline phones and little to no parent supervision over the summers. Rent 5 old release VHS tapes for 5 bucks during school breaks and in the summers call your parents from your friends landline to let them know who's house you were at then spend all day outside. Then in high school bought cheap cars from the 80's and bought our first cell phones to talk to our girlfriends in private with high school jobs. Graduated right around 9/11 and had high speed internet and affordable laptops by college. Not a sweet spot to be an adult though. Massive government overreach from the international WOT. Economic downturn hits at the age of trying to get your life together, get married, have kids etc. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 3:14:20 PM EDT
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1990 and later without fail, and most of the people born after 1985 are definitely Millennials. We still have home movies shot on Betamax. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 3:38:38 PM EDT
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87 here, and while I don't generally get included, I'm including myself. I did all that shit. Maybe it's because my siblings are both at least 5 years older than me, but I can definitely relate. Getting unsolicited boobs pictures from grown women in AOL chat rooms was my shit. I guess my little ass had game.
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Posted: 5/28/2019 3:51:36 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: 5/28/2019 4:29:32 PM EDT
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Thinking back on it it, it was the sweet spot as far as the time to grow up and come of age. As a kid we grew up riding bikes and shooting guns with landline phones and little to no parent supervision over the summers. Rent 5 old release VHS tapes for 5 bucks during school breaks and in the summers call your parents from your friends landline to let them know who's house you were at then spend all day outside. Then in high school bought cheap cars from the 80's and bought our first cell phones to talk to our girlfriends in private with high school jobs. Graduated right around 9/11 and had high speed internet and affordable laptops by college. Not a sweet spot to be an adult though. Massive government overreach from the international WOT. Economic downturn hits at the age of trying to get your life together, get married, have kids etc. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Probably for the best timing for school: Too late for nuclear drills Too early for common core Also best timing for computers: Skills to use one developed in late childhood No internet until teenage years No social media until 21 Having twitter and picture phones in high school would have been bad news for me As a kid we grew up riding bikes and shooting guns with landline phones and little to no parent supervision over the summers. Rent 5 old release VHS tapes for 5 bucks during school breaks and in the summers call your parents from your friends landline to let them know who's house you were at then spend all day outside. Then in high school bought cheap cars from the 80's and bought our first cell phones to talk to our girlfriends in private with high school jobs. Graduated right around 9/11 and had high speed internet and affordable laptops by college. Not a sweet spot to be an adult though. Massive government overreach from the international WOT. Economic downturn hits at the age of trying to get your life together, get married, have kids etc. We got to enjoy awesome childhoods through what is arguably America's last Golden Age. We had late adolescence and early adulthood as the mainstream internet was born and matured along with all of the freedom it brought. And, well, here we are... 
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Posted: 5/28/2019 4:39:28 PM EDT
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This is relevant:
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Posted: 5/28/2019 4:47:20 PM EDT
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You ain't lived unless you threw burning, smoking, melting parachuted army men up in the air 
I remember I got ahold of my old man's shotgun reloading powder... yanked out the parachute of my model rocket, scrapped off the clay from the top of the rocket motor and let her fly. Yeah, caught a butt whooping that day. It was soooo worth it haha Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1985...I've been going through all my old legos lately from the early 90s. Took me hard back to my childhood. Also, went through my gi joes as well.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/58021/F7FE2CA5-36CD-43A6-B524-744E13AFDD1F_jpeg-959952.JPG B.). Wish I coulda been there. That would have been rad and I would for sure have added extra toys to the fire. Most of my GI joes and micro machines are entombed in an alley behind my parents old house. Had a great trench system going that was apparently a "hazard to the community" or some other nonsense. Those are there along with a few pilfered bottles of Grape Snapple that I suspect is prison wine for their toy Valhalla by now
I remember I got ahold of my old man's shotgun reloading powder... yanked out the parachute of my model rocket, scrapped off the clay from the top of the rocket motor and let her fly. Yeah, caught a butt whooping that day. It was soooo worth it haha Or so I've been told..... |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 4:53:36 PM EDT
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I tend to think of millennials as those that were still dependent children on 9/11. It's so different discussing 9/11 with someone who wasn't old enough to control their own fate that morning. 9/11 happened in the middle of Basic Training. 18 years old. Damn what a fucked up time to enlist, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat if needed. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 4:56:21 PM EDT
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Yes, that will make quite a bang. It's even more impressive if somehow you cause the powder to detonate almost after liftoff when the rocket is still very, very close to the ground. Or so I've been told..... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1985...I've been going through all my old legos lately from the early 90s. Took me hard back to my childhood. Also, went through my gi joes as well.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/58021/F7FE2CA5-36CD-43A6-B524-744E13AFDD1F_jpeg-959952.JPG B.). Wish I coulda been there. That would have been rad and I would for sure have added extra toys to the fire. Most of my GI joes and micro machines are entombed in an alley behind my parents old house. Had a great trench system going that was apparently a "hazard to the community" or some other nonsense. Those are there along with a few pilfered bottles of Grape Snapple that I suspect is prison wine for their toy Valhalla by now
I remember I got ahold of my old man's shotgun reloading powder... yanked out the parachute of my model rocket, scrapped off the clay from the top of the rocket motor and let her fly. Yeah, caught a butt whooping that day. It was soooo worth it haha Or so I've been told..... |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 5:01:05 PM EDT
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1979, checking in.
Xennials actually makes more sense as generations go, because we have one foot planted firmly in both X and Millennial camps. As far as the milieu of the culture I grew up in goes, I have more in common with somebody born in 1983, than I do with someone born in 1966. And yet - I have more in common with somebody born in 1966, than I do with someone born in 1996. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 5:13:29 PM EDT
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1985...I've been going through all my old legos lately from the early 90s. Took me hard back to my childhood. Also, went through my gi joes as well.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/58021/F7FE2CA5-36CD-43A6-B524-744E13AFDD1F_jpeg-959952.JPG B.). Wish I coulda been there. That would have been rad and I would for sure have added extra toys to the fire. Most of my GI joes and micro machines are entombed in an alley behind my parents old house. Had a great trench system going that was apparently a "hazard to the community" or some other nonsense. Those are there along with a few pilfered bottles of Grape Snapple that I suspect is prison wine for their toy Valhalla by now
I remember I got ahold of my old man's shotgun reloading powder... yanked out the parachute of my model rocket, scrapped off the clay from the top of the rocket motor and let her fly. Yeah, caught a butt whooping that day. It was soooo worth it haha Or so I've been told..... Nowadays the kid who tried to have fun like this would be in juvenile court, a record, a watchlist and medicated to the gills. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 5:23:21 PM EDT
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Spot on. We got to enjoy awesome childhoods through what is arguably America's last Golden Age. We had late adolescence and early adulthood as the mainstream internet was born and matured along with all of the freedom it brought. And, well, here we are... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Probably for the best timing for school: Too late for nuclear drills Too early for common core Also best timing for computers: Skills to use one developed in late childhood No internet until teenage years No social media until 21 Having twitter and picture phones in high school would have been bad news for me As a kid we grew up riding bikes and shooting guns with landline phones and little to no parent supervision over the summers. Rent 5 old release VHS tapes for 5 bucks during school breaks and in the summers call your parents from your friends landline to let them know who's house you were at then spend all day outside. Then in high school bought cheap cars from the 80's and bought our first cell phones to talk to our girlfriends in private with high school jobs. Graduated right around 9/11 and had high speed internet and affordable laptops by college. Not a sweet spot to be an adult though. Massive government overreach from the international WOT. Economic downturn hits at the age of trying to get your life together, get married, have kids etc. We got to enjoy awesome childhoods through what is arguably America's last Golden Age. We had late adolescence and early adulthood as the mainstream internet was born and matured along with all of the freedom it brought. And, well, here we are... Something I have noticed with "us" as parents is because we didn't have tech at our fingertips until late teen's/early adult-hood is that we don't just accept that it's "normal" for kids to spend all day on devices or have social media accounts. Other parent's right at my wife and my age are the same way. Play outside all day, go get the neighbors, etc. My 10 year old only has a phone but she's only aloud to use it at designated times or have it on her when she is out of the house without us. No FB, Twitter or Instagram accounts and the internet is for school projects. Parents just a little younger than us but in the "same generation" don't seem to have that same mind-set. |
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Posted: 5/28/2019 5:32:14 PM EDT
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Those that did not experience any part of the cold war and did not come of age before the GWOT are different than those that did.
Maybe I've got it backwards, as I see what makes millennials different as a matter of the world they never experienced, not as a result of the technology that they did. For them, the greatest threat has always been terrorism. For us it was Soviets. For them, freedom like we experienced as children would be grounds to remove children from a home and incarcerate the parents. For them, big brother really is watching, for us it was a book we had to read and write about in literature class. For them, much of what was deviant or niche subculture in our youth was mainstream and normal in theirs. The ten year span between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the start of the Global War on Terror is an epoch generational division. |
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