Who wants in? We can talk about what is was like to write a letter to your grandma or having no other way to ask someone out other than by calling them on the phone. Or checking out movies at Blockbuster or whatever your national equivalent was (we usually checked out videos at the grocery store, actually).

We’re cool because we can actually remember the USSR and “East” Germany. Although not as cool, I can remember when homophobia and transphobia was so much more widely accepted and the “default” position for most Americans. Not as cool.

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[–] erik@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I fit this demographic, but I also lived in a really rural area, so we were even further behind than most on a lot of stuff. Definitely got our video rentals from the grocery store, the same one that also had a tank with live lobsters in it that endlessly fascinated me and my siblings.

But the cars owned by my aunts and uncles had 8-track decks in them and my grandparent's house had an Atari 2600, where I put in a lot of time on stuff like Berzerk and Defender.

If my dad wasn't a huge dork, for a farmer anyway, that loved Star Trek, I probably would have never gotten a computer until was out of college or something. I can remember accessing the internet with a 14.4 kbps modem that I was only allowed to use for like an hour late at night since we only had one phone line in the house.