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re: If You Were Born Between 1976–1985, This Video Will Finally Make Sense of You
Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:42 pm to SallysHuman
Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:42 pm to SallysHuman
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A quarter and a pager number would have worked. I didn't get my first cell phone til I was maybe 20.
I got my first cell phone after college around 2001 or so. I did have a beeper in college and some of high school though
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Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:42 pm to gaetti15
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I definitely think for the new generations, socioeconomic considerations need to be taken into consideration when defining the cut offs.
Yea. I'm 1986, and I didn't get a cell phone until junior year 02-03. All of my friends got them around the same time from what I remember. I don't think the wealthier kids got them much earlier, and if they did they didn't flaunt them.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:46 pm to shutterspeed
I remember my sister losing her mind because I wasn’t being quiet while she recorded a song off the radio with her cassette player
Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:49 pm to Shexter
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Stop whining. Y'all lost out
Speak for yourself.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:52 pm to rickgrimes
Xennial here. Class of '79.
I had the GI Joe aircraft carrier & Castle Grayskull, but also hooked up with a chick I met in a AOL chatroom. Used to tuck my shirt in to show off my pager. Had an earring in my left ear bc earring in the right ear meant you were gay.
I had the GI Joe aircraft carrier & Castle Grayskull, but also hooked up with a chick I met in a AOL chatroom. Used to tuck my shirt in to show off my pager. Had an earring in my left ear bc earring in the right ear meant you were gay.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 7:01 pm to facher08
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Yea. I'm 1986, and I didn't get a cell phone until junior year 02-03. All of my friends got them around the same time from what I remember. I don't think the wealthier kids got them much earlier, and if they did they didn't flaunt them.
I didnt get one until after Katrina
and that was just out of necessity. Dad was the only one allowed to have a cellphone...and he had only had on of those Nokia phones that I remember playing Snake on
(and he just got that in the time frame you mentioned 02-03) This post was edited on 3/31/26 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 3/31/26 at 7:12 pm to ATrillionaire
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Dreamcast was ridiculously easy to mod.
Black-backed discs FTW
Posted on 3/31/26 at 7:16 pm to Shexter
Those rolls of caps made a bigger bang if you laid them out on a sidewalk and popped them with a hammer.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 7:25 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Black-backed discs FTW
I think those were Memorex
I used Verbatim, which were a little cheaper, but still quality. Had a powerhouse (lol) 16x Plextor CD-RW burner
Posted on 3/31/26 at 7:28 pm to rickgrimes
Pretty spot on.. also generations should be 10 years, not 15 , nor 20
Posted on 3/31/26 at 9:36 pm to Joshjrn
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I had a cell phone in the 8th grade whose sole purpose in life was to call my mother after football practice ended so she didn't have to sit there and wait
True Xeniials were calling collect on a pay phone and saying “Burger King”
Posted on 3/31/26 at 9:41 pm to CE Tiger
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True Xeniials were calling collect on a pay phone and saying “Burger King”
pay collect phones at the Chalmette movie theater. Always had to make sure I had changePosted on 3/31/26 at 9:58 pm to rickgrimes
Falling into that time period, I feel like it has been easier to adapt. I know I am always interested in what's next and its because it really has been that way. I remember when I was young and my mom listening to records, my sister had an 8 track player, but my brother would let me listen to some of his tapes when he wasn't home and when he was a teenager when I was a kid so I was always listening to tapes.. The of course CDs came along then mp3 players and then streaming.. Which I wish that would change, but I don't see that happening soon.
I know older generations... People who are today in their late 60s on up.. They struggle with change. Well not all obviously, but the older of that group are more likely and I get it, they have been doing things a certain way all of their life and then today, its like its getting further and further away from what they know.
The kids today, they will see a lot of advancement in technology, but it will just evolve from what they already know, 1976-85ers.. It was adapting whole new systems.
I know older generations... People who are today in their late 60s on up.. They struggle with change. Well not all obviously, but the older of that group are more likely and I get it, they have been doing things a certain way all of their life and then today, its like its getting further and further away from what they know.
The kids today, they will see a lot of advancement in technology, but it will just evolve from what they already know, 1976-85ers.. It was adapting whole new systems.
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