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Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of "I remember"-type responses, so I have to wonder.

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[โ€“] FQQD@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another gen-z dude here ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! Did you experience the CD era at all, or were you straight into MP3s?

[โ€“] FQQD@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

More like both, i always had a little cd collection, but it was mostly self-burned from mp3s my dad bought off iTunes. I also had a early-ish mp3 player at some point.

I remember xp... Thanks about it

[โ€“] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Millennial here. Started on a garbage picked pentium 2 that I ran DOS on.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A computer is would be a good find in those days. Did you have to do much to get it running?

[โ€“] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

PSU and RAM had to be replaced. Garbage picked those too.

Starting my fourth decade on this rock. Distressingly pale... My boys are into trying to fix and upgrade the consoles & PC's they've grown up with, plus a couple old PowerPC G4 & G5 Macs I snatched up a few years ago, so we'll see where that goes.

[โ€“] richard_merren@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@CanadaPlus I'm 54. If you're into the generation markers, I'm a Gen X. We don't get your generation's jokes and we're totally comfortable with that.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wife bad? I'm sorry, are we being catty? Haha.

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when my own little Zoomer was born, so I can't help ya here.

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[โ€“] mcc@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Started with a Tandy 1000.

[โ€“] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always coveted the Tandy 1000, but I never got one. Which one did you have?

[โ€“] mcc@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

That was pretty early on for me so only remember a few details. Playing Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Sim was the main thing I did on it.

Xennial. Grew up memorizing phone numbers, using 1-800-COLLECT to get picked up from the mall, and typing basic programs from magazines into qbasic.

[โ€“] 91x@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

'91 baby here that used a Toshiba T1000 back when I was in diapers.

The farthest back I can actually remember is a PowerMac G3 in school and a few Compaq machines at home running Windows 95.

[โ€“] nothingsacred@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was born in 1991. I do not know what that makes me... half dead maybe.๐Ÿ˜น

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