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Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.
Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.
First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).
"Alpha! Rita has escaped! Recruit a team of teens with attitude!"
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I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement
I was using 5,25β³ discs.
I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."
Maybe tomorrow Iβll want to settle down, until tomorrow Iβll just keep moving on.
Crash Bandicoot was my first game.
Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?
When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.
π΅ This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. π΅
I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.
My childhood pics are Polaroids.
I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.
That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!
I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.
My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM
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.
I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart
I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.
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.
My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.
I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:
A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,
B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and
C) The Littlest Hobo
Iβm curious.
Did you grow up to be a female Canadian border patrol hobo who also knows some medicine?
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
