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re: Where were you in 1984?
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:15 pm to pilsnerpusher
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:15 pm to pilsnerpusher
We broke so many damn windows on the house back then playing ball 
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Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:16 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It was a glorious time to be alive. I had just gotten my driver's license and my first car and I was a free man. I was driving my friends to school, listening to great rock n roll, stopping at the quicky-mart on way to school for a pack of marlboro reds, honey buns and a mountain dew in those short fat bottles with the styrofoam wrapping on the outside that you'd slowly peel off one small strip at a time. Man, that was living.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:16 pm to scott8811
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hell yes it was...I know I'm biased but what perfect timing. Got to experience a childhood without the internet and hit teenage years as the internet was catching stride. Our childhood straddled two very different eras
My family didn’t get Internet until I was around 11. We had a computer earlier than that, but it was an 80’s model with no Internet unfortunately lol.
I didn’t get my first cell phone until I turned 18 and went to college. In high school, I would use my Mom’s cell phone, but it had to be after 10, when the minutes would be free.
As far as electronics, I grew up playing Sega Genesis, and the portable Sega, the Nomad. I had an old school box tv that didn’t have a remote, I had to change the channels and volume by hand. I had a VCR that was my source of movie consumption other than tv. My Mom used to tape movies for me on VCR also. I had a stereo with a 3-disc changer that I absolutely loved. I made a few mixtapes on that stereo.
I was born right in the middle of the millennial generation in 1988, as most would agree anyone born between 1981 and 1996 is a millennial. I spent my whole childhood without a cell phone, while kids today get them pretty early on lol. I was midway through my childhood before I ever used the Internet.
So I would definitely say people born around my birth year were the last to experience a childhood that wasn’t dominated by technology.
This post was edited on 2/28/24 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:19 pm to LSUNWO1988
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Exactly. We were the last kids to grow up without cellphones
our 'internet' was dial-up BBS bulletin boards on my brother's AMIGA 1000 and 5600 baud modem in the heady years before prodigy, AOL and compuserve started their massive shovelware compaign.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:20 pm to SaintlyTiger88
The worlds fair and started my freshmen year at LSU. Good times for sure.
This post was edited on 2/28/24 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:22 pm to SaintlyTiger88
8th grade
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:23 pm to jdd48
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At the world's fair in NOLA
That too
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:24 pm to SaintlyTiger88
On Chimes Street....partying.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:24 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I was 7.
My grandfather was alive and drinking Jax beer like water. Drove around with one like it was also water.
No seatbelts. Short shorts and tall socks. People smoking everywhere. Cars smoking everywhere.
Felt pretty fricking free.
My grandfather was alive and drinking Jax beer like water. Drove around with one like it was also water.
No seatbelts. Short shorts and tall socks. People smoking everywhere. Cars smoking everywhere.
Felt pretty fricking free.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:24 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I was 15
It was glorious
It was glorious
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:25 pm to scott8811
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Internet was around but people weren’t glued to it. In school we still went to books as references first. AIM messenger didn't come out till I was 10 and so by the time I was about to enter HS was popular. I grew up roaming the neighborhood without a cellphone at all and by the time I graduated hs smart phones were common. wild when you think about it
That's true.
I was born in 1981 and still used a floppy disc for storing word documents, ect while I was at LSU between 2000-2004.
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while I was at LSU between 2000-2004
That was also the first time I saw an external hard drive with porn movies on it.
Times they were a changing.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:25 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Getting my cast cut off after climbing a tree my dad just told me to stay out of because it was rotten. Riding my BMX Fuji with the mag wheels. There were trails in the woods we would ride at night without flashlights to prove we were men. Lots of tent camping in the backyard, making fires, roasting hot dogs. Also went to the World’s Fair. Lots of great movies and music came out that year. For making good grades, at the end of the school year we got a boom box and a Footloose cassette. Our Honda 70 3 wheeler disappeared that year, old man said he was having a headlight put on, he came home with a 125, I was estatic, my brother had a fit because he wanted a 185, so I got to ride it first.
Damn good year
Damn good year
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:30 pm to jdd48
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drunk at the world's fair in NOLA.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:33 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I was 1.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:34 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I was a sophomore in high school in beautiful Shreveport, Louisiana. Not a care in the world and life was grand.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:36 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Watching my brother pour quarters into the Pizza Hut jukebox, and then listening to a lot of Van Halen while eating pizza.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:36 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I was married and working in the logging business with my FIL around Hattiesburg, was only 27 at the time, lots of hunting and fishing
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:37 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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1984
Worlds Fair is always the first thing I think of when I see that year like most of us.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:37 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I was 3. I went to preschool in Algiers. It was called Kaye’s preschool and it had a cool barn. When I was in NOLA last fall visiting family actually drove by it. It’s still a functional preschool and looks like it’s been kept up really well. I also very vaguely remember some puppets at the worlds fair.
This post was edited on 2/28/24 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 2/28/24 at 4:41 pm to fallguy_1978
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fallguy_1978
I didn't realize you were a Central guy. We're around the same age and grew up in the same area. We may have known each other.
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