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[–] rainynight65@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I would probably be old enough to get this line if I had grown up in the place where video games worked on channel 3...

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[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

yeah, I see all your extreme gen X nostalgia, dial-up internet browsing, floppy disk hole punching, cassette pencil rewinding, unshielded electronics interference having, family party line sharing, coin return checking asses, and I raise you something only REAL old kids will remember:

Silly Bandz. Only the real old heads will remember kids trading various kinds of silly bandz with each other. Alternatively, depending on how much the people around you believed in pseudoscience, the power balance hologram bracelets could also be found around people's wrists, at that time.

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[–] Mishmash2000 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you turned the TV on you had to wait a minute for it to 'warm up'. The black and white image would slowly emerge out of the darkness.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Inhad two tv stations in black and white as a kid

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[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

PO Box 963, New York City, New York State 10108

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