miri
2017-07-13T18:25:41.000Z
I remember watching the Berlin Wall come down on TV
miri
2017-07-13T18:26:03.000Z
a tv that had no remote, turn knob channel changers, and a UHF knob
miri
2017-07-13T18:26:56.000Z
yep ... the pain of trying to manipulate those annoying twisty things around each knob too, haha
I remember that! And the Challenger.
miri
2017-07-13T18:27:46.000Z
i was a little too young to remember that, but i know I watched it.
miri
2017-07-13T18:28:20.000Z
I do remember watching Paul Simon's Graceland concert live on one of the main tv stations, though
miri
2017-07-13T18:29:01.000Z
my first movie in the theater was The Little Mermaid -- I was a second grader
miri
2017-07-13T18:30:18.000Z
I wrote a book report on how awesome George Bush senior was when I was in kindergarten lmao
miri
2017-07-13T18:30:35.000Z
Current President GB senior, even
miri
2017-07-13T18:31:43.000Z
I remember being super pissed throughout watching Bill's inauguration as a 4th grader, which is hilarious now and even then because I knew fuckall about politics
miri
2017-07-13T18:32:00.000Z
we spent a lot of 7th grade watching the OJ simpson trial, too
That was early high school for me, but yeah, OJ was a big one here.
miri
2017-07-13T18:32:55.000Z
I remember them ushering in literally everyone in my tiny christian school to the choir hall to watch the verdict
miri
2017-07-13T18:33:51.000Z
so many people were so mad, but I remember my immediate thought was 'well, god knows and he'll take care of him in the end' -- see: christian school
We were all shocked, the kids who wanted him released and the kids who thought he was guilty both. Nobody thought he'd get off.
miri
2017-07-13T18:34:47.000Z
yeah it was pretty stunning
miri
2017-07-13T18:35:20.000Z
I asked my mom to take me up to join the freemen l m a o
miri
2017-07-13T18:35:27.000Z
unrelated but woooooow
miri
2017-07-13T18:36:33.000Z
miri
2017-07-13T18:37:15.000Z
I literally just thought they were cool, I think
Oh shit, I remember that!
miri
2017-07-13T18:38:06.000Z
I think I was a freshman in high school
miri
2017-07-13T18:39:38.000Z
like as a whole I'm so so so so so glad I turned out to be a very different person from what my younger self was gearing towards
miri
2017-07-13T18:40:25.000Z
I basically changed as soon as I got the internet
I like you much better not being a survivalist sister wife.
miri
2017-07-13T18:40:33.000Z
LMAO RIGHT
miri
2017-07-13T18:41:24.000Z
but I think it's very much a demonstration of how rural life can be -- I had no interest or opportunity to form my own opinions, I just saw what was going on around me and mirrored that
miri
2017-07-13T18:42:36.000Z
speaking of the internet, when I was a young high schooler I discovered fan fiction, and because we didn't have it at home I would load a couple of disks with it and take it home to read on our old tandy
miri
2017-07-13T18:44:06.000Z
I had a couple of the old huge-ass real floppy discs too, but they were too outdated for the school computers
When Anne Rice announced that she was going to write a 5th VampChron book, the fan response was to immediately write their own epicly long versions of what they thought her book would be... which I still don't understand, but I had several 5.25" floppies full of text files of terrible fanfic all with the same title.
miri
2017-07-13T18:44:40.000Z
hahaha god
(They were all better than the bullshit she ended up writing, too.)
miri
2017-07-13T18:45:20.000Z
I killed that computer when I tried to delete enough files to install Final Fantasy VII on it
miri
2017-07-13T18:45:37.000Z
I think it needed like 64mb of ram, and this computer only had 32
Jay
2017-07-13T18:45:42.000Z
you are so young....
miri
2017-07-13T18:46:03.000Z
we had a betamax! we used it regularly!
miri
2017-07-13T18:46:40.000Z
I think some of this stuff is really hard to date because we were poor af and were generally using outdated stuff as a whole
miri
2017-07-13T18:47:04.000Z
like when I was struggling with that ancient beast, our school had shiny new candy colored bubble macs lmao
miri
2017-07-13T18:50:09.000Z
our dialup when we finally got it was garbage, too; I used to watch the download speeds on napster and only once in like 3 years did it break 1kbps
miri
2017-07-13T18:50:59.000Z
it usually sat around a comfortable 425 bytes per second
miri
2017-07-13T18:51:49.000Z
at that point I was one of the cool kids though because I did get a new, modern computer that had two cd drives you guys
miri
2017-07-13T18:52:20.000Z
my classmates would go wild giving me CDs to copy for other friends
miri
2017-07-13T18:55:49.000Z
my high school science teacher introduced me to beta google; it was the only search engine he'd use
ah when fanfics were rated via citrus fruits
miri
2017-07-13T21:05:42.000Z
and people understood the differences between squicks and triggers
miri
2017-07-13T21:06:09.000Z
but we also were little assholes who loved a good MST-ing of someone else's fic
miri
2017-07-13T21:06:23.000Z
I was an avid egroups user way back in the day
miri
2017-07-13T22:11:43.000Z
/creaky voice
now that's a word I haven't heard in a long, long time