Ask Lemmy

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

Well, let's see.

I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.

Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?

I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.

I'm as old as the NES.

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

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.

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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

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

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

I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.

Grew up using Vista