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.
40-something here: I hope to live to see the day I am hanged for being cringe and not based.
Not old enough to fit in with the oldheads, not young enough to fit in with the zoomers. This is my burden to bear
- i used to have like 6 or 7 phone numbers memorized, besides the house line.
- i remember when we got the caller ID box, i thought it was like being in the CIA to know who is calling.
- “Get off the computer, I need to use the phone!”
- blockbuster was a big deal movie night, but we also had impulse grocery store rental nights. i used to love looking at the VHS tape boxes, the artwork etc. especially horror/sci fi. i was the youngest, so nobody gave a shit what i wanted to watch and if they did, no one ever wanted to watch what i wanted to watch, which was entirely based on box cover art.
I remember calling my friend and being bewildered that he knew it was me before I even said anything, that was my first encounter with caller ID
Walking into a hexbear meetup only to find out all these power posters are actually 20 years older than me
late 90s kids (youngest millennials/oldest zoomers) where u at
I watched the first moon landing live in college.
In your 70s? Dang elder cat here. Hexbear apparently has got people who were born in 2008 and people who born in 1950.
Which is a good point since the hostile part of the lemmyverse tries to tell us, who have quite a bit of diversity and lived experience that we are all 14 year olds. Some of us witnessed the births of countries which freed themselves from colonialism and USA’s influences life!
It is a try to reduce us to a caricature that can be easily dismissed.
