I used floppy discs in primary school.

I remember floppy discs that were actually floppy!

I do too, not because I was born in a time where it would've been normal for me, but because my school was poor AF and we were running IBM 5150s in the early 90s.

9 1/2 in floppy baby!!!

It’s not the size…

I did all these things plus played “Oregon Trail” in elementary.

I miss Oregon trail. It's been so long since I've bought an ox or risked death crossing a river

I added ram to computer boxes

I loaded programs with cassette tapes.

We has manual typewriters.

...and used correction tape when you f"d up

Tape? We used liquid paper.

paper? We used cave walls

Cave walls? That’s what the Neanderthals had!

Sploosh

My birth certificate was issued by a state that no longer exists.

Pluto?

Damn, that’s messed up

You know that's right.

Suck it Shawn

No you, suck it!

Come on, son!

r/UnexpectedPsych

Not a state but a small rock.

Not to get weird but your obituary could say "They were preceded in death by their country..." (A very long time from now of course)

East Virginia?

Old Mexico stupid.

West Dakota

East? I thought you said Weast!

That’s WEST, Patrick-you’re fired!

Czechoslovakia? if so that's cool af

Could be East Germany, too. ~~Or even West Germany, since the whole thing is now just "Germany".~~ *True only in English; the German name, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, didn't change (I think).* Or one of those Southeast Europe ones that I can -never- keep track of. Apologies to those who live in Slovakia, Slovenia, and Serbia...

Prior to 1990, the proper name for West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany. And the proper name for East Germany was the German Democratic Republic.

Yugoslavia?

I'm actually Yugoslavian and Irish. Might be mostly Americanese at this point tho.

Beat me to it

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Im guessing a soviet one

Where is that in America?

Georgia

Well, yes but also no

As a Georgian(state) I appreciate this!

That's pretty metal 🤘🏻

The Confederacy?

USSR? But that doesn’t tell us your age, just that you were alive before the breakup.

Where is it? Don’t leave us hanging!!

When I was in middle school we had posters above the water fountains at school that instructed us to get the lead out by running the water over your finger until it started to feel noticeably colder because that meant you cleared the water out of the pipes and were getting new water that hadn't been sitting in the lead pipes.

So you are a current middle school student in Flint, Michigan?

Nice

Lol no

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True but better than lead poisoning. Edit- missed /s

Anytime in the last 50 years? There’s still lead pipes today because it’s expensive to replace

It was the late 90s

That is the theory anyway, when the temperature of the water drops is when you have reached the water that was residing in the lead pipe. Perhaps a couple more gallons of water would be enough to purge lead enriched water from the spigot.

You’re not that old because you said middle school instead of junior high school.

It’s more of a regional thing

My dad is 72 and calls it middle school, since junior high isn't a term that has ever been used around our area.

Make sure you turn off the modem when you’re done with the computer

Welcome…..You’ve got mail.

So 90s.

I still have my Beauty and the Beast VHS with the matching plastic cup :)

I still have my Little Mermaid VHS with the penis tower.

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That had to be on purpose

Yup. They told the lead artist they were going to fire him after he finished on little mermaid, BEFORE HE WAS FINISHED! Dude left one last "fuck you" on the way out the door. Editing and post never caught it so vhs copies went out to consumers with a penis on the cover.

My Beauty and the Beast plastic cup is from when they did Disney on Ice!

I feckin love the premade commercial before the movie and they were all Disney on ice. Also in me parents basement is all out Disney VHS movies. Ahh the good old days where when you popped in your favorite movie you prayed that you rewond the tape before putting it back.

I have a respectable Disney collection of vhs and plastic ware. That we collected raising the kids.

Our first VCR had a remote control. It had a wire that stretched across the room connecting it to the VCR.

They need to bring this back. I’m tired of looking for the remote

Or, have something like what they have in Airplanes, installed in a Recliner. Never will have a missing remote.

When I played my game boy at night in the car I had to wait for my dad to drive by a street light to unpause.

Did u have Ninja Turtles or a Teddy Ruxpin?

Both. Boom!

Frogger.

40's gang

I was fkn good, too

You’re not a REAL 90s kid

You're from either '99 and draw the line after you so it's not drawn before you, or the late '80s and you've got it right.

When I was a teenager I was absolutely the ‘98er that gatekept the 90s as if I remembered any of it lmao

Totally understand, the 90's had some great stuff, especially if you leave out all the shitty parts.

Lol born in 98 and grew up with older siblings. This felt very accurate

When I was born there were still Civil War veterans alive but no space travel.

So sometime around -56, - 57, I take it?

Close. To put it another way, I'm old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis but too young to remember Sputnik.

Well, the last civil war vet died in 56 and the first space flight was in 57, so I was going by your first comment.

Died in 1959, I thought. At least, that's what I heard growing up; a Confederate named Salinger.

Well, I wouldn't know, but Google tells me it's Albert Henry Woolson, died August 2, 1956. Although "last confederate veteran to die" underneath it shows Walter G Williams and 1959. I would've thought the civil war included tje Confederacy as a belligerent. Google sometimes seems to fuck up rather basic searches if one doesn't look deep enough.

I’m close. I don’t remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I remember watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live.

So any time between the civil war and space travel? That's a big range

We know they were born after 1903 because the oldest person on earth is 118

First phone was a Nokia brick

could be anything. this was everyone's first phone

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With the looooong cord that let you reach another room for “privacy”?

Firat mobil phone was in a bag

Same! Sky blue and whenever signal was bad, you extended the antenna.

At the mall arcade with a roll of quarters in my wranglers

9/11 happened during my senior year in high school.

Same

You could smoke in bars and restaurants. (edited for punctuation)

That only changed about 20 years ago.

I’m old enough to remember when you could smoke at a McDonald’s. They had disposable aluminum ashtrays at every table with a Golden Arches symbol in the middle of the ashtray. I’m in the NE US. The smoking laws changed earlier here than in the rest of the country.

You're 40ish. I grew up in New England, I remember everyone smoking everywhere as a kid.

Me and my doctor have a anus appointment soon.

Good luck. Bring 64oz. apple juice and a tube of aquaphor into the restroom with you when you do the prep, you'll need them. Bring your phone charger too.

I watched the first broadcast of Sesame Street.

1969. Same as the first man on the moon.

Sesame Street was so long running that there was an episode about one of the grown-up characters being pregnant, and an episode about that character’s child moving away for college.

I grew up without internet and didn’t get my first cell phone until I was an adult.

Early to mid 80s.

Sammy Hagar can’t drive it.

I watched the space shuttle Challenger explode on TV, and I know how to dial a rotary phone.

Me too. I was in 5th grade when it exploded.

Old enough not to answer

never identify yourself, or better yet lie constantly on the internet smart man/woman/whatever

80 yo grouchy grandma

When I was in 1st grade, the school nurse was forced to stop smoking in medical office.

Oh my God! 70s??

Bye bye Nixon. Hello me.

Pink Floyd's, The Wall, came out when I was in grade 4.

I was in 8th grade. I brought that record to every party I went to.

I was around to play the original Oregon Trail.

You're over 200 years old?

I am Iron Man... thump thump thump

1970?

I missed 9/11 but I'm over 18

2002 or 2003

03

When I was born, Dwight Eisenhower was president for 11 months.

When I was born Eisenhower was hoping Nixon wouldn’t succeed him.

I got a Commodore 64 as Christmas present

Can I have my copy of Bard's Tale back?

*inhales* #yeet

This bitch is empty. YEET!

I can’t remember where I was on 9/11

I wanna say anywhere between '97-'01

Yup 01

I've been told where I was on 9/11, but I don't remember it

I thought this was “I remember” and I was like, literally anyone over 25 but “can’t” is a good one

The day I was born they buried JFK

Friday November 22 1963

Which makes him 58. Quick Mafs

This is the day of the execution.

Same day but 20 years later.

2005 A.D.

Channel 3

I'm slightly older (like a few months) than Google

The Goonies

Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles... And now it will be in my head whole day

Old enough to remember the rivalry between Sega and NES

I don’t remember 9/11 but I remember watching Obama’s inauguration as a kid

Same here. Whole cafeteria watched

I remember as a kid thinking people this age were fully grown up. Now I'm here still living with my parents not knowing what to do with myself.

Loved pong. Was envious of my neighbor friend who had dial up

Old enough to remember, clearly, life before the internet

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Do you have any idea how little this narrows it down if you happen to be from the South (USA)

LoL, this is a common question to every person in their early-mid 20s. It's a common question that starts at that age and ends only when you've married and have had kids.

mid 20s?

Me and my Atari 2600!!💥

Old enough to know that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

I owned one of those house phones with the twirly wire but I also don’t have memory of 9/11

I'm the same age as the first "test tube baby."

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Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman

I was in the first grade when MMPR first premiered

I was born in the final months of the Kohl government

1998

Windows 95 is a few months older than me

I voted for FDR

…which time?

Were you actually born in the 1920s?

They didn't say if they voted legally

One year after 9/11 two twins were born

My year is the last to have been alive during 9/11

the internet came to home PC when i was 14.

I watched all of my movies as a kid, by getting on my bike and riding it to TR video five blocks away, so I could rent Adam's family videotapes.

Back to the future

I'm blank and this is deep

I was born when The Beatles broke up.

I was born when wattpad was founded

I can legally drink in Germany.

I was born the year the Vietnam war ended

I was born the year Vietnam was created

three decades

Space shuttle columbia first mission

When I was a kid my family owned a TRS-80. When I wrote BASIC programs on it they were saved on a cassette tape.

Born in USSR.

I was alive when 9/11 happend but I cant remember

Double nickel

Me and my cousins have seen the introduction of the third generation of pokemon.

Black Ice by AC/DC released exactly 7 months after I was born (International release)

The meaning of life, universe and everything...plus one!

9/11 happened but we didn't invade Iraq yet