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My first computer was a Sinclair

My first gaming console was N64 and I remember my parent's paid 700 USD for our 2 bedroom apartment in decent area.

16ish

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I'm barely still a Millenial. Which is kind of cool. I don't like the "generation names" before or after that much, and I liked that I grew up with non-invasive tech and non-existent smartphones during school. I was able to grow up with tech but none of the tech I dislike today. Also, tech was still easier to understand back then. I was able to learn how to create web sites for example when HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CGI was still in its infancy and not very complex yet. Of course I learned the growing complexitty as it all developed but the point is that it kind of grew with me. Which probably made several things easier to get into in the first place. Also, I still grew up with almost forgotten values such as privacy, and my whole youth life (as well as dumb things you did when young) isn't available online and therefore "gone". I kind of like it that way.

Old.

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.

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

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

I got one of the first home Pong machines for my 7th birthday

My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

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

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money

That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?