I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler
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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.
My first modem was 2400 baud.
I still call them Opel Fruits
Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.
TVs have a UHF switch so I can finally watch more channels. I really hate putting tinfoil on the rabbit ears and opening the window to sometimes get these new channels though, but they work better if I hold onto the antenna. It's hard to see what I'm watching if I do this, but at least I can mostly hear what they're saying, and the picture is dark anyway, so even if I could see at this angle, it would be too dark and snowy.
The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.
i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
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I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.
I got one of the first home Pong machines for my 7th birthday
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.
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
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I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.
The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.
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I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart
That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?
Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.