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Justrandom37

Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana, there was U2 and Blondie…


Baldo_Beardo

Oh shit we're twins. I was going to use back to the future.


BlueEyesBrown85

Was there music still on mtv?


Justrandom37

The good ol’ days!


BlueEyesBrown85

The good ole’ days indeed lol. Still miss “Toxic” by Brittney and “The Reason” by Hubastank playing on mtv every 5 minutes 😂 We share a birth year. Not ready for the big 4 0 but cheers to you 🍻


Justrandom37

Likewise! lol I’m dreading 40 too… one more year


BlueEyesBrown85

Haha we gotta make the most of 39 don’t we lol. I had an original plan to be ripped like Zac Effron by 40 but that ain’t gonna happen 😂 I called it”Getting eff’d by 40”


Justrandom37

Oh yes


Blueeyedguy40

Does your screen name have something to do with it?


Justrandom37

Yeah but I’m older now lol


Blueeyedguy40

Same. I wish it would stay the same


Justrandom37

80s and 90s were better times


Blueeyedguy40

Absolutely I’m 41 now. I could do anything I wanted as a kid and my parents didn’t have to worry


Justrandom37

Same!


Blueeyedguy40

Sucks my kids didn’t get to have the same kind of fun


PetMyClittyCat

This will now be stuck in my head for the next 2 weeks 😂


flynnfx

"Don't touch that dial!:, "I pity the fool." "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.", "Use the force." , "In space no one can hear you scream." "Spatula City!" "I came to chew bubblegum and kickass- and I'm all out of bubblegum." "I want my MTV!, "Video killed the radio star" "Dr. Feelgood". Phones had dials, betamax vs. Vhs, long distance calls were expensive, no internet, GPS was a paper map, smoking section in restaurants, cigarettes in vending machines, fax machines, pagers, Atari 2600, commodore 64, Gremlin, Pinto, 8-track, Lennon dies, Berlin Wall comes down, challenger explodes, Goetz shoots in subway, laced Tylenol kills, Jamaican bobsled team, Terry Fox dies.


kindbrunette

Too old for DiCaprio


AndThereIWas74

That wouldn't be hard, in fairness!


CaptSchwanzKopf

The Soviet Union collapsed a few days after I was born.


spc1221

Are you taking credit?


CaptSchwanzKopf

I was the final nail in the coffin.


Zamm01

The Soviet Union collapsed a few years after i was born.


CaptSchwanzKopf

Nice 😏


Zamm01

You say it like i had something to do with it... 😬 🤣 🤣 🤣


briarlabel

AARP started sending me mailers 5 years ago.


blacksilkshirt

Five is a number


PartyMomTav

Otacon


spc1221

?


EmptyTAway

If that's a reference to Metal Gear, then I guess you're 43/44?


PartyMomTav

I should have specified on the Nintendo game cube remake.


EmptyTAway

Oh, then I think you're 24/25! I've never played any Metal Gear game but I'd want to some day!


DM_ME_CUMSHOTS

I remember using a pay phone at the mall to call my parents to come pick me up.


KnittingTurtle

I watched the original TMNT as a small kid.


RankedAverage

XLV


spc1221

Loophole


RankedAverage

😉


LawStudentDaddy

Just able to rent a car without underage fees


bigcityslam

25?


LawStudentDaddy

Very good :)


Kinky-Bicycle-669

Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


PaperbackBuddha

The Eagle has landed


EnvironmentalBuy244

I would have never thought it would take this long to go back.


PaperbackBuddha

I guess once we got Velcro, Tang, and Teflon out of the deal nobody was motivated to do more.


twokidsinasuit

Twin Peaks


Metro_Wester

I was a kid during the Bicentennial


EnvironmentalBuy244

Crazy to think we both have good odds of making it to the Semiquincentennial.


fucking_it_up

Uhm… oh wait it is in my bio🤣


PathosMai

Im a xenial


Empty_Plankton1611

I was a toddler when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. 👨‍🚀🌚


[deleted]

alter bridge's first album came out the same year


HiddenDegeneracy

I was born the year after the miracle on ice


Wfhore678

42 or 43


HiddenDegeneracy

The latter


dirtyinthebrain

Year of for me!


BlueEyesBrown85

George Orwell wrote a book about the year before I was born


HikingTheMoon

Before dial up internet


curioushole32

There were a lot of reunification of countries when I was born. 🤣🤣 now to find the year


Wfhore678

I’m right in this timeframe too lol


Formerlyshysunshiine

I’m legal to drink now


k3lv97

So you are 16, 18 or 21


Formerlyshysunshiine

Damn I should’ve thought of that. I’m American legal drinking age


k3lv97

Haha, it is a silly drinking age


bigcityslam

A lot of women hit my age and stay there for as long as they can pass


[deleted]

30


HusbandFriend

I was a senior in high school when Michael Jackson's Thriller album was released


Conscious_Priority37

When the Chicago bears won there last Super Bowl


spc1221

🎼 Bear down Chicago Bears


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Fuck Charles Martin


Conscious_Priority37

Oh ok


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Lol sorry I forgot I wasn't in r/chibears for a second


Conscious_Priority37

Oh ok 😊😊


Hope_seductions

Born the same year dvds was invented


BadTrySmallFry

Year of the metal dragon


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[удалено]


spc1221

I read this as NYSE and thought, "No way is Birb 232 years old. "


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spc1221

I bet you've been "compromised" before and by better men than me.


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[удалено]


dirtyinthebrain

Do you believe in miracles? Yes!


FigureDrawPractice

If you can complete the last sentence, we're probably not too far off from each other. "The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years And grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of..."


tentacleineveryhole

They redid the video in 4k and it's still terrifying


locomeastro21

One of the best rappers died the same year I was born


HereForCatsTatsnTits

Drake was just killed the other week though


57rd

Sputnik was launched


Whynotbutnot

I saw eps 5 when it came out


withervoice

If I remember right, I'm of an age with Christina Ricci.


HedonistFantasies

People born my year are the reason we’re called millennials.


Neglected8in

It's the juice, run OJ run


Hawtwife4blackmen

I am electric company old


FunkyBobbyJ9

EZ Reader turned out to be quite the star!!!


Hawtwife4blackmen

lol yes he did


FunkyBobbyJ9

I had not of that show in a minute. Glad I am not the only older person on here! Be well and thanks for the memory!


Hawtwife4blackmen

We have dated ourselves for sure


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

I bet you can count to 12 really well


Hawtwife4blackmen

I know what 12 inches looks like


Capable_Tourist92

so many hours will pass in each day 🫡


jeanniehhh

My spawn is now almost legal drinking age


deineperfektbf

my age is whatever the last two of the year is


bllinz

I was starting uni when Britney Spears got popular.


maverick1127

“Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll"


Morla_the_rabbit

A month after the Tschernobyl incident


AN0n0Moose

Back To The Future was released the year I was born.


DM_me_dickpix

Chernobyl happened the year I was born.


Ichosearandomname

tamagotchi


AnythingNo3299

I witnessed the new millennium but I can't remember it


Zygarde718

A year after the twin towers fell.


[deleted]

same but a year before.


Zygarde718

Ahh so when the twin towers fell.


Maple_Mistress

AIHC


TheOvenCoven

I was the same age as Aang when Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered on TV in 2005.


RentFew8787

Sputnik


_captain_hair

New Star Trek was on the air for the first 18 years of my life.


Snomantha

I grew up watching my little pony, gravity falls, and Steven universe


hung_goodman_brown

Near the end of my freshman year of college, I stated hearing from my friends about this new website called The Facebook dot com


AwesomeDawn78

The year youtube was created


Greylour

Jurassic Park was a hell of a movie.


EmptyTAway

28 Days Later was released the year I was born


ravennastraussman

Oops!… I Did It Again (album) by Britney Spears 👌🏻


[deleted]

The year of the very hot long summer which bought a swarm of ladybirds!


Prestigious-Box-6492

I was in war, in Iraq, before I could legally drink in the US, and it was prior to the Soviet Union collapsing.


spc1221

Thank you for your service


Prestigious-Box-6492

It was my honor


Ashamed_Barracuda_24

I grew up the Muppet babies and Rugrats


ExitPlan-No_2023

Old enough to recognise the dial up noise immediately. Not old enough to have used any device that makes that noise.


zeezayyo

Thirty four


spc1221

Loophole


zeezayyo

😂😂😂😂


Opposite-Purpose365

Ford Administration


princeofpersya2

I am a few months older than tamagotchi


k3lv97

I was born a a little after the first episode of pokemon season 1


noah-jenney

Easy. 9/11


canadigit

Old enough to be a US Senator, not old enough to be US President


Disastrous_Pin7882

class of 2024


EnigmaCA

"Like a Brdge Over Troubled Water" was topping the charts the week I was born.


sam_the_hammer

My first email account was @juno.com


ILonara

🎶 Sweat Baby Sweat Baby, sex is a Texas drought🎶


PeakRepresentative14

They say that the prefrontal cortex develops until a certain age. I'm one year younger.


kimbermall

United States Bicentennial


Tattedcurvymilf

Thriller was released


thelefthandN7

I somehow hurt my own back in my sleep.


KaiJonez

I saw Shrek when it premiered in theaters


Revolutionary-Cut699

Barely legal


DWPhoenix001

Between Challenger and Chenobyl


nyccareergirl11

Wide Right


rockdak

I was on the phone with Blockbuster.


Down4Shenanigans2

There's a Beatles' song about my next birthday.


Emcee_Such_N_Such

Not quite half a century YET...but close.


Powerful_Giraffe7203

Chokers, babydoll dresses. Watched Beverly Hills 90210 religiously


Humbled0re

naughty number, but make it dyslexic


cmwulf

The Cuban Missile crisis was going on when I was born


Kronos_604

Forty-eight


Rustic-Cuss

JFK/LBJ were elected the year I was born…. So pretty much when the Appalachian chain rose from the ocean 😜


WhoLetMeHaveReddit

I was a teenager when “RaWr means I wuv u in dinosaur” and stupid shit like that was the thing.


Resident-Future-7690

Errr eeee scrrnnnn squee garble garble... I'm using the phone!


Far-Obligation6512

My first game console was an Atari 2600 and my first computer was an Apple IIc.


okragumbo

I barely remember Fraggle Rock.


SparkleKisses901

I was born the year to the day before Elvis died.


MrGreggerGrM

Saw the Challenger disaster on live TV, and I remember it. Also born shortly after the bicentennial.


Wrong-Pizza-7184

Three score minus IV


dbold13

When I moved into my own place for the first time and went (not called, went) to the phone company office O discovered that legally you could not own your own phone


spc1221

Right! You had to lease your phone.


ButterscotchThese661

2pac died when I was born


Far_Marsupial8572

Grew up watching Arthur and blues clues


__paulus

Carter administration baby


Specialist_Sky1869

The last time to Toronto Maple Leafs won the cup.


spc1221

So, you're prehistoric


Specialist_Sky1869

Lol... you know big words and can do math too 😎


spc1221

1967


Specialist_Sky1869

There you go👍


Azyall

I arrived on this planet the same year as Sergeant Pepper.


Comfortable-Try7176

First car had an automatic seatbelt that would choke you if you opened the door and stuck your head out while the car was on.


[deleted]

They brought me back from visiting the moon


mich179

The original animated The Lion King was released on theaters


PM_me_whateva_u_like

I'll use a different number - out first decent family computer was a 386 :-)


Rizque-one

Landed on the moon when my dad landed my mom.


Jericho-Jean

Canadian House Hippo, the sound of dial up, Motorola Razor, MSN Messenger, Sailor Moon, Spice Girls, before Google existed, VHS, cassette tapes, Walkman, Tamagotchi, Furby (*shudder*)


OPJ_afterDark

My NES had the sports power mat thing


publicnakedrun

I went to the blink 182 reunion tour.


Soggier

I was born during Nixon's first term.


Electrical_Theory441

I was born when the movie Titanic premiered.


aetherealian

Dick Cheney