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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd like to be asked consent when my picture is posted online.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Had a similar phone, my gameboy was a couple of gens older, and I never played pokemon... But I remember when my friends got their ps2s and I listened to both albums on my commute yesterday... Wtf happened? 2005 was yesterday!

Where's the mini-skirt made of snake skin? And who's the other guy that's singing in Van Halen? When did reality become TV? Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows (on the radio?)

Really fucked up thing is, that song came out in 2004, and is about a woman remembering 1985, like we're remembering 2005... It's already been a year more for us than her.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Time spares no one, friend. Howl in defiance with me for just a few moments more.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Millennial, here (1988) and this is just my early-to-mid teen years, which I consider part of my childhood.

Showed the meme to my GF who born in 1995 and she couldn't even relate to half of this starter pack. Her era was Wii and DS, not GBA and PS2. Her first phone was an iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This looks like born in 95 with an older brother starter pack...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

She got started late smh we were all playing GBA on the bus back in the day.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I am about your GF's age and agree with the other commenters --the meme is spot on. I was just having an Emerald nostalgia trip before I saw this meme. I played Emerald on a DS lite; the generations weren't that far apart. PS2 was my first console.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I was born in 96. My first console generation was PSX and GBC, followed by GBA and PS2. I think your gf just wasn't in to gaming when she was little.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Weird, I'm only two years older than here and this image fits me perfectly. I had every version of gameboy, a GameCube, n64, I played the SHIT out of oblivion, and my back hurts.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

GRAB YOUR SWORD, AND FIGHT THE HORDE! UNCLE LOTHAR WANTS YOU!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Mostly accurate, except maybe the phone. Kids (10yo as shown by the meme) having phones was much less common.

'95 kids may have had these later on as they went into highschool especially when there parents started getting early smartphones and handing down their Razr. But in 2005? Very rare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was born in '92. Didn't get my first phone til I was 14 in 2006. It was a Kyocera Oystr. Then in 2009 I had a Moto RAZR ve20. Most of the kids I knew called it a RAZR 1½. Loved that phone. It had a 3.5mm jack that worked with regular headphones so I put all my music on it and never asked for an iPod. It was sick that it had music controls on the back of the clamshell.

I didn't get my first smartphone until 2011, and I had to pay for it myself. It was a US Cellular variant of the Moto Photon 4G called the Electrify. It had this sick CRT animation when you locked the screen. Motorola made some kickass smartphones in the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly if they'd update their freaking phones in a timely and long-term manner I'd say Moto still makes great phones.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm born 1990 and this pic was my childhood

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh God grandpa found the photo book again

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Needs more of Bungies Halo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do people really remember that much before age 10? I have a few core memories but general cultural awareness is pretty lacking and mostly based on hindsight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember a lot after the age of 7.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I remember mostly tech and playing video games, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

" Zoomber"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

is that thing in the upper right a slice of cabbage?

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[–] ICastFist 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought they were much simpler back then, no?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

back then

Oof, ow, ouchie

Idk what they are now, but they were just cool looking spinning tops with sharp pokey bits to topple enemy beyblades, or more likely, to cause bodily harm to your friends, especially the diecast metal ones that had some heft to them

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I came to the chat wondering what it was too. Look like an endoplasmic reticulum to me, but no idea why that would be there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Endoplasmic reticulum?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For extra fun: sing System of a Down in public and see who becomes confused and/or aroused.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

My alarm used to be Chop Suey.

The hard part was converting then getting the cable to upload AMR files to my phone. Made me feel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

PUUUUUUUL THE TAPE WORM OUT OF YOUR ASS!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

i remember when my store manager came to work with her brand new razr phone, thinking all us peons would be like "ooooh aaaah i wish i was you even more now!!!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I feel seen/attacked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Zoomber is the masculine definitive of Zoomba

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m still looking for my GBA-SP! It’s the retro Nintendo version. I want to play Golden Sun without paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hell yeah Golden Sun!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Anybody remember the SHREK KETCHUP lolol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing quite like gathering a few friends and beating the crap out of each other with those lightsabers

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Replace a PlayStation 2 with a early 2000's computer and everything checks out for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

2005 was lit! 2006 was probably one of the best years of my life, despite being relatively broke most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was lit for most of 2005

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Half Life 2 where are yoooouuuuu. And I'm so sooorry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

There's no way I'm older than you. You can't do this to me!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah this was pretty much all the things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Almost got me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hey that’s me!!

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