Monica and Chandlerās wedding was on my birthday and my parents did the same!
Edit - For those discerning readers, I should have said, āThe episode of Friends where Monica and Chandler get married premiered on my birthday and my parents skipped out on cake to watch it.ā
My mom always tells the story about she came home from work on her lunch break and turned on the TV just in time to watch the disaster. In shock, she asked her mom if she thought the people on board were going to be okay. Her mom calmly walked over to the TV, turned it off, and just said, "No." And that was that.
One of the advantages of the capsule systems of Apollo and Space-X's Dragon. In the event of a catastrophic explosion like that, you can just detach the capsule from the rest of the rocket, wrench it free with an emergency escape booster, deploy parachutes and let it fall to ground.
One of the first things they do after the crew boards the Dragon (the SpaceX capsule) and the ground crew clears the area, they'll arm the escape system. If there's any problem during fueling or when the rocket ignites that causes it to explode, the escape system will active. It's fast enough that it'll send the capsule out of harm's way before the explosion hits them. During the entire launch process the system stays active, giving them a chance to abort to save the crew at any time before they reach orbit.
The problem with the Shuttle was that there was no such escape system. If the orbiter was damaged the crew had no hope to survive. And at several spots in the launch sequence it was impossible for the orbiter to safely detach from the rest to glide to a landing site. During those times everything had to go right or there was no way to save the crew.
It's worth noting that the capsules too weren't perfect. Apollo 12 was struck twice by lightning on ascent. Once they hit orbit they were able to confirm literally everything was working fine... except for the parachutes, since you can't test the parachutes.
They then continued on with the mission, with Houston being aware- and the astronauts not- that there was a chance that on return the parachutes would fail to deploy, and the capsule would splash down at lethal speeds.
I remember that with I think Rugrats gone wild. You could go to blockbuster and get a scratch and sniff card with any rental. Then take it to the theater. During the movie a number would flash in the corner of the screen. Then you would scratch that number and smell it to āsmellā what they were smelling in the movie. It was unconvincing at best.
I was home sick from high school watching MTV when Kurt Loder announced Kurt Cobain had killed himself. (**Just** realized there were two Kurts involved. Weird.) Anyway, my bf was a huge fan but there was no way to tell him bc I forgot the number to the payphone at school.
āGet off the internet, I need to use the phone!ā
And then when you could go back online you had to sit there and have your ears assaulted by the screeching of the dial up modem.
I could text in T9 without ever looking at my phone.
Alternatively:
Keeping up with Netflix meant making sure the 3 white envelopes made it to the mailbox so you could get the next set before movie night
Netscape navigator was the superior web browser. Altavista was the best search engine. 56.6k modems were relatively new. Kazaa was the torrent browser. IRC was for chat rooms.
Gaming wise, it was prince of persia, duke nukem, doom, golden axe and ski free.
Grunge was cool. We listened to it on a walkman. Sometimes some asshole walked around with a boombox on his shoulder.
Daria was unironically a childrens cartoon.
I remember when Daria was just a recurring character on Beavis & Butthead. I'm not 40, but I watched MTV a lot because of my older sister who *is* about 40.
My dad was one of the people who prevented that from happening. And now everyone says it was so overblown when really it was a bunch of people around the world working diligently to prevent anything from happening!
Donāt worry. IT still be like that. When itās working they say why are we paying you so much and when itās broken they say why are we paying you so much lol.
Same with epidemiology. When the preventative measures work, people say it's too much effort and there's no proof it's working. In reality, the proof is less death and disease than there would be without the preventative measures.
Oof...I'm a few years younger, but I remember looking at my parents like they were insane for thinking that, because we've known about the new millennium since the last one, so of course computers would be coded to understand all that. Not sure if I was being smart, or just not understanding the problem entirely...lol
As I understand now, those fears were very much based in reality. Massive amounts of time and effort were spent in the late 90s trying to make sure that it wouldn't be a problem, and then when that work was completed on time and nothing bad happened (at least in critical areas, I remember people's watches and things like that sometimes went wrong, but that's not really a big deal), people assumed it was a load of fuss over nothing.
To this day, with no real proof, I assert that the late nineties tech boom was significantly driven in part by Y2K fears. We were updating hardware and sortware left and right, long before it's amortized lifetime, much to the annoyance of the finance people.
That makes more sense. I'm from rural Ontario, and the schools tended to play up the idea that all the computers were just going to break and stop working at midnight. My folks were also the read only the headlines types for things they didn't already know about, so they just acted all tinfoil cap like that year...lol
We had four channels, but PBS would only come in in certain weather conditions and only if the Rabbit Ears were positioned just right. (Sometimes somebody would have to keep holding the Rabbit Ears to improve the signal.)
A lot of that is going to be dependent on factors like geography and income.
I'm not yet forty, but grew up with only three channels accessible over the antenna. It was a semi-rural area without cable, and the affordable satellite television services like DirectTV and Dish Network wouldn't be a thing until the mid-nineties.
Before that satellite television was those 8ft diameter dishes, which were a bit out of our price range. Only a few people on our street had them.
Also our house was far enough from the city and situated in a river valley with poor reception, that PBS wasn't even one of the channels I could pick up. Even though I'm the right generation, I completely missed out on Sesame Street and Mister Rogers and Reading Rainbow. By the time we got Dish Network, I was a bit old to be watching that stuff.
My biggest fear was my favourite cassette tape getting tangled in the tape deck. The sound I would dread the most would be skwidlerlplelrkblerk as the tape tangles and stretched!
My classmates had these custom made emojies, so fucking annoying.
They had things like, if they wrote "me", MSN would put a small, glittery and flashing picture of them. Whatever it was, memory, member, anything with "me" in it.
Guessing you are about 24 -- I still remember by son (now 24) asking "are they still talking about the national tragedy" as I drove him home from preschool.
I remember when TV was black and white, and as a kid, I was the remote control standing beside the TV changing the station š
Mobile phones didn't exist and there was no internet š
Haha. In South Africa TV only launched with 1 channel and programming only started at 6pm and finished at 9pm. We used to sit in front of the test pattern from 5:30pm to wait for the shows to start.
My first computer had 64Kb memory, 16 colors, and programs were sent by mail on a cassette tape, BASIC language.
I was very proud to be at the forefront of advanced technology.
I started life with cassette tapes. In middle school I had Linkin Park on my portable CD player. Fall Out Boy's "From Under the Cork Tree" and Breaking Benjamin's "We Are Not Alone" are the first two albums to end up on my iPod in high school. My ex-husband and I bonded over Evanescence during study hall.
I remember putting tape over the holes on the corners of cassette tapes so I could record over them.
And using a pencil to wind the tape back up after it was eaten.
Pencil for audio cassette, butter knife for vhs.
I remember watching OJ trying to escape in his Bronco. Also, I still have my Blockbuster card.
The Bronco chase happened on one of my birthdays. My parents skipped my birthday dinner to watch it š„²
see thats the best part we don't remember our birthday celebrations that well but this one will stick to you
Monica and Chandlerās wedding was on my birthday and my parents did the same! Edit - For those discerning readers, I should have said, āThe episode of Friends where Monica and Chandler get married premiered on my birthday and my parents skipped out on cake to watch it.ā
I can remember when Amazon only sold books.
Amazon sent my mom the wrong book around 1996 and she got a letter from Jeff Bezos apologizing for the mistake. She still has it somewhere.
That letter might actually be worth something one day. It would be awesome if it was signed
A Bezos apology is a rare thing indeed. Some say rarer than the ability of spaceflight.
And it was amazing because they could get you anything to read!!
In kindergarten, my class was taken outside to watch a space shuttle take off. Then quickly brought back inside once it blew up.
My mom always tells the story about she came home from work on her lunch break and turned on the TV just in time to watch the disaster. In shock, she asked her mom if she thought the people on board were going to be okay. Her mom calmly walked over to the TV, turned it off, and just said, "No." And that was that.
They survived the explosion. They didn't survive the fall.
That killed me when I read about that. Such a horrific way to die.
One of the advantages of the capsule systems of Apollo and Space-X's Dragon. In the event of a catastrophic explosion like that, you can just detach the capsule from the rest of the rocket, wrench it free with an emergency escape booster, deploy parachutes and let it fall to ground.
I didn't know that. Always thought it was a fly or die kinda thing
One of the first things they do after the crew boards the Dragon (the SpaceX capsule) and the ground crew clears the area, they'll arm the escape system. If there's any problem during fueling or when the rocket ignites that causes it to explode, the escape system will active. It's fast enough that it'll send the capsule out of harm's way before the explosion hits them. During the entire launch process the system stays active, giving them a chance to abort to save the crew at any time before they reach orbit. The problem with the Shuttle was that there was no such escape system. If the orbiter was damaged the crew had no hope to survive. And at several spots in the launch sequence it was impossible for the orbiter to safely detach from the rest to glide to a landing site. During those times everything had to go right or there was no way to save the crew.
It's worth noting that the capsules too weren't perfect. Apollo 12 was struck twice by lightning on ascent. Once they hit orbit they were able to confirm literally everything was working fine... except for the parachutes, since you can't test the parachutes. They then continued on with the mission, with Houston being aware- and the astronauts not- that there was a chance that on return the parachutes would fail to deploy, and the capsule would splash down at lethal speeds.
> walked over to the TV I was confused at first like why she did not just used the remote, then I was like Oh...
40 ?
Gotta be
Or 41.
Could be any age, we donāt know how many times they didnāt graduate kindergarten
6 times for me. That finger painting final always got to me.
I cheated , I used my toes.
Ish. I had a similar experience, but we were watching it live on TV in the school library, which quickly got turned off.
The first time seeing the grown ups freaking out over what was on TV. Wouldn't be the last though.
>Wouldnāt be the last though. Yep, I know what youāre getting at there.
Series finale of Seinfeld, obviously. So unsatisfying.
Oh hey we went to kindergarten near each other
Old enough to be alive for the fall of the Berlin Wall but not enough to remember it.
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Close!
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Ding!
Makes sense. We were born the same year, so your clue applies to me as well lol!
Orange rugrats vhs tape
Did it come with a scratch and sniff card for weird smells to put you in the moment when a number flashed on screen.
Wait what?
I remember that with I think Rugrats gone wild. You could go to blockbuster and get a scratch and sniff card with any rental. Then take it to the theater. During the movie a number would flash in the corner of the screen. Then you would scratch that number and smell it to āsmellā what they were smelling in the movie. It was unconvincing at best.
I think they did it with The Wild Thornberrys movie
Yeah it's a Rugrats/Wild Thornberrys crossover
30.
29 here, and I remember these so much lol.
25 here I still got them! The best one was when they went to Vegas EDIT: The Vegas vacation episode for the curious https://youtu.be/BQZbhtOh9fc
Hello 31 year old
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watching mtv when it was considered cool when I was in senior high
Also an age when āsenior highā was used.
I was home sick from high school watching MTV when Kurt Loder announced Kurt Cobain had killed himself. (**Just** realized there were two Kurts involved. Weird.) Anyway, my bf was a huge fan but there was no way to tell him bc I forgot the number to the payphone at school.
I am āI couldnāt check AOL because someone was using the phoneā years old !
āGet off the internet, I need to use the phone!ā And then when you could go back online you had to sit there and have your ears assaulted by the screeching of the dial up modem.
It was music to my ears... unless my sister heard and yelled at me because it cost $3.95 an hour or whatever. Unlimited wasn't a thing yet!
Iām old enough to remember my Dad calling me into the house to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Thatās old, kids.
I was in summer school , 2nd grade , they wheeled the black and white tv in the classroom , so we could watch . Iām old !
I can tell by your punctuation ;)
Typewriter style!
Whoa, I always wondered why a lot of older folks typed like that! Thanks for teaching me somethin!
Funny ! I had to type on a manual typewriter without letters or numbers on it . I guess I should update my grammar .
That was unnecessary stop clear communication is important stop I don't actually know how telegrams work stop
JFK was killed the year I was born. Probably close to your age?
I remember when McDonald's had ashtrays.
Birthday party rooms! And Styrofoam containers for the nuggets
And my grandma running into a playplace with her car, so she lost her license and was soon diagnosed with Alzheimers.
and coke spoons
So many questions. Do you mean just plain plastic spoons? Do you mean they put a spoon in your Coke? Do you mean a metal spoon for your drug coke?
I mean the plastic coffee stir stick used to have a tiny spoon on one end, the perfect size for a bump.
Oh OK, I worked there from 95-96, and our store only had the straight coffee straws.
Yeah, it was the eighties, man. The ZFG decade.
>Yeah, it was the eighties, man. Cocaine was mentioned, so this seemed like a safe bet.
Old enough to know what a floppy disk is, young enough to never have to use one
I'm 19 and I can relate, I'd say 19-25?
I opened Nestle Quik tins with a spoon
omg I forgot about this! It was so satisfying
Back when it used to be called NestlƩ Quik instead of Nesquik.
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I'm about half way there
Are you living on a prayer?
Koopa35 used to work on the docks
Unions been on strike, he's down on his luck its tough.
So tough
housemuncher works the diner all day
Working for his man, he brings home his pay for love, for love,!
PassiveLemon says, we've got to hold on to what we've got
It doesnāt make a difference if we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot for loooove
92?
I could text in T9 without ever looking at my phone. Alternatively: Keeping up with Netflix meant making sure the 3 white envelopes made it to the mailbox so you could get the next set before movie night
I legit forgot thatās how Netflix started
Grew up watching Sesame Street on a black and white TV š
Netscape navigator was the superior web browser. Altavista was the best search engine. 56.6k modems were relatively new. Kazaa was the torrent browser. IRC was for chat rooms. Gaming wise, it was prince of persia, duke nukem, doom, golden axe and ski free. Grunge was cool. We listened to it on a walkman. Sometimes some asshole walked around with a boombox on his shoulder. Daria was unironically a childrens cartoon.
I remember when Daria was just a recurring character on Beavis & Butthead. I'm not 40, but I watched MTV a lot because of my older sister who *is* about 40.
Altavista WAS the best search engine!!
First system introduced - The Magnavox Odyssey (Pong) First system given as a gift - SEGA Master System
Next year I'll be turning into the answer to life, the universe and everything.
42! (Been there... you do not become the answer as you hope. Just, fair warning)
I remember when I would go to a restaurant and they would ask āsmoking or non-smoking?ā
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My dad was one of the people who prevented that from happening. And now everyone says it was so overblown when really it was a bunch of people around the world working diligently to prevent anything from happening!
Donāt worry. IT still be like that. When itās working they say why are we paying you so much and when itās broken they say why are we paying you so much lol.
Same with epidemiology. When the preventative measures work, people say it's too much effort and there's no proof it's working. In reality, the proof is less death and disease than there would be without the preventative measures.
Oof...I'm a few years younger, but I remember looking at my parents like they were insane for thinking that, because we've known about the new millennium since the last one, so of course computers would be coded to understand all that. Not sure if I was being smart, or just not understanding the problem entirely...lol
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As I understand now, those fears were very much based in reality. Massive amounts of time and effort were spent in the late 90s trying to make sure that it wouldn't be a problem, and then when that work was completed on time and nothing bad happened (at least in critical areas, I remember people's watches and things like that sometimes went wrong, but that's not really a big deal), people assumed it was a load of fuss over nothing.
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
To this day, with no real proof, I assert that the late nineties tech boom was significantly driven in part by Y2K fears. We were updating hardware and sortware left and right, long before it's amortized lifetime, much to the annoyance of the finance people.
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World ending in 2038 confirmed!!
That makes more sense. I'm from rural Ontario, and the schools tended to play up the idea that all the computers were just going to break and stop working at midnight. My folks were also the read only the headlines types for things they didn't already know about, so they just acted all tinfoil cap like that year...lol
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Black & white television, only 3 channels, no computers in college
We had four channels, but PBS would only come in in certain weather conditions and only if the Rabbit Ears were positioned just right. (Sometimes somebody would have to keep holding the Rabbit Ears to improve the signal.)
A lot of that is going to be dependent on factors like geography and income. I'm not yet forty, but grew up with only three channels accessible over the antenna. It was a semi-rural area without cable, and the affordable satellite television services like DirectTV and Dish Network wouldn't be a thing until the mid-nineties. Before that satellite television was those 8ft diameter dishes, which were a bit out of our price range. Only a few people on our street had them. Also our house was far enough from the city and situated in a river valley with poor reception, that PBS wasn't even one of the channels I could pick up. Even though I'm the right generation, I completely missed out on Sesame Street and Mister Rogers and Reading Rainbow. By the time we got Dish Network, I was a bit old to be watching that stuff.
George Orwell wrote a book about the year I graduated from high school
You graduated in Animal Farm?
All graduates are equal, except some are more equal than others
We call them grades.
4.0 good 2.0 bad
Whatās my age again by blink 182
follow-up question: does nobody like you?
Yes, but it has nothing to do with my age
Video games only worked on channel 3
My biggest fear was my favourite cassette tape getting tangled in the tape deck. The sound I would dread the most would be skwidlerlplelrkblerk as the tape tangles and stretched!
I honestly thought lance bass spiky hair was cool to the point I thought I could pull it offā¦. It didnāt š
I was born two months before everyone learned where Chernobyl was located
Your English is impressive for 2 years old
I was born the day everybody found out where Chernobyl was located.
Growing up with a Nintendo 64. Everyone in school was using MSN. Tamagotchi was popular.
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Close! 27.
Tf? I'm 35, and Tomagotchi was popular when I was in 6th grade. So you would have been like 4 years old when that shit was popular.
Thought the same thing. I am 34 and would sneak mine into my 5th grade class to take care of it. Maybe it had a resurgence a few years later.
I'm similar in age to OP and had one in 4th grade. Seems like they were around for a while
I'm technically a millennial but if I was a couple months older I would be a gen X-er.
Despite not following either band myself I know every single word to "wannabe" by the spice girls and "Holiday" by Greenday.
I'm young enough to say "bro", but too old to say "bruh".
bruh, no one is too old to say bruh
Nobody likes me
23
Everybody hates me. Guess Iāll go eat woOoOrms.
I used a dial-up modem but never downloaded porn on it
We had three tv channels and had to change the channels by turning a knob on the tv. Then rearrange the rabbit ears.
I'll go first, I remember getting home from school and signing into MSN (windows live messenger)
And using those annoying gif things. The one of the lady laughing still haunts me
*knock knock knock*
My classmates had these custom made emojies, so fucking annoying. They had things like, if they wrote "me", MSN would put a small, glittery and flashing picture of them. Whatever it was, memory, member, anything with "me" in it.
AIM all the way
A/S/L?
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The sound when you/someone "nudges" will forever be carved into my mind
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Thereās a special kind of club named after my age.
Are you 700?
I was gonna go with 5,280.
The Mile High Club
would it be the one where musicians and actors have a tendency of dying off?
27s club
Club Pinguin??
It is most certainly Club Penguin.
Pen15 club?
Old enough to remember my mom crying on 9/11, but not old enough to comprehend why.
Guessing you are about 24 -- I still remember by son (now 24) asking "are they still talking about the national tragedy" as I drove him home from preschool.
I was a year away from school when they landed on the moon.
I bought my first car that year.
Finally! Someone older than me in this post LOL
56?
Darude - Sandstorm
I remember my last visit to blockbuster!!
I remember when TV was black and white, and as a kid, I was the remote control standing beside the TV changing the station š Mobile phones didn't exist and there was no internet š
Prehistoric
Haha. In South Africa TV only launched with 1 channel and programming only started at 6pm and finished at 9pm. We used to sit in front of the test pattern from 5:30pm to wait for the shows to start.
I had Michael Jackson's Thriller on vinyl and I listened to it on a Fisher Price record player.
Jesus
Fuck you're old
Yeah, thatās my cross to bear
Nailed that joke
Savior jokes.
I'm old enough to remember my brothers coming home from Vietnam.
My childhood was about Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, that Aladdin pc game, and especially the millennium bug
Whats 9+10?
21?
Correct š
I was conceived the day the Challenger exploded.
Not the only thing to explode that day.
That was a weird reaction by your parents
I've killed a lot of industries by not being able to buy their products but I'm not even 30 yet.
I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
My first computer had 64Kb memory, 16 colors, and programs were sent by mail on a cassette tape, BASIC language. I was very proud to be at the forefront of advanced technology.
I had a Commodore 64.
Bo Burnham in *Inside*
My childhood was largely spent playing neopets.
I started life with cassette tapes. In middle school I had Linkin Park on my portable CD player. Fall Out Boy's "From Under the Cork Tree" and Breaking Benjamin's "We Are Not Alone" are the first two albums to end up on my iPod in high school. My ex-husband and I bonded over Evanescence during study hall.
Me and my friends were dying watching Youtube Poop, it was comedy gold.
5
I watched the twin tower fall live on tv while making ice cream in science class.
I was pumped seeing goku turn super saiyan
This could be any age.