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I've still got my flannels and ripped jeans.
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WINONA!
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Apr 29, 2015 01:18
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I'm holding a copy of Generation X in my very corporeal lap as I type AMA. *Microsofties...
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May 3, 2015 02:23
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My first cable tv came with a cabled box that had a channel slider - like from 1 to 200 on a sliding little handle you slid right or left. You could fly through all the channels by going fast, it was a trip.
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May 4, 2015 03:57
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jackyl posted:catalog porn was good when you couldn't get to the woods Scrambled Skinemax was the best porn you could get in 1988.
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May 4, 2015 04:34
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jackyl posted:and Mötley Crüe was where it was at on the bus lol
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May 4, 2015 04:34
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subhuman filth posted:CORRECT loving millenial puke. Gen Xers couldn't use calculators for the SATs you loving pussies.
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May 4, 2015 16:25
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Nirvana really was a revelation. Check how cool I am: I was a college DJ for three years and we still played 95% records as CD's were brand new and too expensive. We got new records all the time and one day I got a 45 - which was a mini record that only had 2-3 songs, youngin's - from a then unknown label out of Seattle called Subpop. It had a band named Soundgarden on side A, and a band named Nirvana on side B, and it literally blew my mind. I never heard anything like it before and it started a revolution at the radio station, thank the gods. It changed the world.
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May 4, 2015 16:41
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Neophyte posted:I unironically care about my fiber intake now. Another story! So I ran for class president my senior year of highschool and before the big day where the three candidates gave speeches to the entire class in the gymnasium, the principal took us aside and told us all the responsibilities we'd have - fundraising, graduation, etc. He also said we'd be responsible for class reunions, and he emphasized the point that 10 years from then we'd have to organize the reunion. I chortled internally, cuz as if the world would still be around in 10 years - the USSR will have nuked us by then. I was class president, FYI. I put on my 25th reunion last summer. 
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May 4, 2015 17:07
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lol no.
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May 4, 2015 17:29
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Dyna Soar posted:i feel like i'm stuck between generation x and generation y or millennials. i'm def not a millennial but i'm not quite old enough to be x either. we were the last ones to grow up without cellphones or the internet. Alas. Sucks to be you.
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May 4, 2015 17:32
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Dyna Soar posted:yeah. then again i'm gonna outlive most xer's How so? You mean by years or actual date?
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May 4, 2015 17:35
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Dyna Soar posted:i'm younger than they are Statistically speaking, yes. But you could die today, friend. Enjoy your youth.
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May 4, 2015 17:49
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ninotoreS posted:you're fringe GenX then Let's put some dates on this poo poo then. Gen X is the generation that follows the Boomers - this is the very definition of Gen X, and thus forms our judgements. The Boomers were 1945 - 1965. Gen X thusly starts in 1966. Where does it end is the question we've been debating. 1985 seems like a fairly good place to end it, though 1980 could also work. The word "generation" means something in this context, and it is roughly defined as the period of time from which a baby is born to the point they have a baby. 15-25 years approximately. Social events can skew this number, but only on the edges, as a generation is a generation, roughly.
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May 4, 2015 17:54
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Dyna Soar posted:i'd say 1985 could be considered the last year of generation x since as i said, we were the last ones to grow up without the internet or cellphones. OK ur GenX. Welcome aboard. Are you depressed?
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May 4, 2015 18:01
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Bimmi posted:Yeah that was pretty rad, briefly thought the world wasn't gonna go to complete poo poo, joke's on us I guess. I got legit excited at Bush Senior's declaration of a "New World Order" though it seemed to freak everyone else out.
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May 4, 2015 18:02
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Bimmi posted:That was some seriously creepy poo poo and I was glad when he turned out to be a one-termer. Boy, if we'd only known. Why was it creepy though? He was talking about a post cold war world that no longer had any divisions. It was a vision of American hegemony that has mostly come true today.
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May 4, 2015 18:16
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ninotoreS posted:old enough to know life without internet and i-can-communicate-with-anyone-anywhere-at-any-time = pre GenY, end of discussion So it's 1985, roughly. As a 15 year old in the year 2000, you could technically produce a child and legitimately not have internet access or a cell phone. By 2003 these standards had changed.
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May 4, 2015 18:25
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Bimmi posted:You pretty much answered your own question there. Besides, we'd just lived through motherfucking Reagan, you expect I should trust anyone from his admin to actually have good intentions? Yeah I guess. I'm really pro-America so I was never scared by the idea of Hyperpower USA (that is, until I witnessed how the Republican party evolved into a pack of concentrated crazy and a legitimate threat to the survival of planet earth). Better dead then Red, afterall.
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May 4, 2015 18:28
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FuriousGeorge posted:I remember gingerly handling my first CD like it was such a fragile piece of future tech that I'd gently caress it up if I breathed on it wrong. I remember reading claims that CD's were indestructible. You could throw them around like frisbees with no consequences. How wrong that was.
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May 4, 2015 19:09
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Better to fade away then to burn out IMO.
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May 4, 2015 20:10
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texaholic posted:
Millenial like by 100%. I worked at a breakfast restaurant in the summer and saw Smashing Pumpkins at a 250+ club (Zoots, Portland, ME) on Friday night and they randomly showed up to my breakfast place on Saturday morning, driving their own van from Illinois. I like to think my pancakes and omelet put them on to the path of success. D'arcy was notably not there.
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May 8, 2015 01:14
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Grant DaNasty posted:
Every chick in playboy back then had an unusual amount of stuff.
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May 8, 2015 03:47
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SA2K posted:i was in 6th grade when columbine happened Millenial as gently caress. Like post millenial maybe?
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May 8, 2015 09:05
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Dyna Soar posted:yeah, probably but who cares? every teenage boy has porn stashed somewhere. my mom probably knew about them but was wise enough to let me have them and never say anything about it. What if ur Mom sucks?
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May 8, 2015 09:40
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1997 I hooked up a company's internet via 3 56K modems that autodialed. Then we hired a horrid lesbian witch from Norway who surfed lesbian witch sites all day and took all the bandwidth. Such an awkward conversation.
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May 8, 2015 16:10
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I collected like 400 free AOL CD's and made this sweet rear end mobile that got destroyed during a house party by a roomate because he was an rear end in a top hat. Sweet loving mobile though - it had like 8 swinging axis and featured tits from porn mags interspersed with the AOL cds. Was like 10 feet tall.
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May 8, 2015 16:21
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Flo Cytometer posted:I remember sending in prepaid postcards for free AOL and Compuserve FLOPPIES so I could get some free floppy disks all I had to do was wait 2-4 weeks. I never even "got" AOL back in the day. It was just for Mom's, right?
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Gosh a thread on a topic I'm familiar with over 6 pages? Instant Gas!
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