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The iPod got me. Never had one. Never had a friend who did. This could be a Gen X experience or a cash-poor Millennial experience. If it hadn't been for the hint I would not have got past that part.
I also didn't have that particular Nokia so it took me a moment to figure out which button deleted mistakes. Mistakenly thinking that the CAPTCHA designers might not have implemented that part of the interface didn't help.
Had to guess on the boomerang. I've seen boomerangs but didn't know that's what they're called nor have I ever posted one. Again, this could be an "I don't post on that platform" or an "I only post pictures and haven't used that feature" experience. I definitely have an account on at least one platform that hosts them though.
I am technically not a Millennial. The term for my cohort is Xennial, I believe.
I've never heard of a "boomerang" that wasn't referring to the Australian tool/toy. I totally guessed on that one too. I don't post videos to any social media platform, so I was totally out of the loop on that one.
Also, were millennials into Different Strokes? Because I didn't know a single person who watched that show. It ran from '78-86, a time when millennials were either non-existent or just being born (1981+). There's a whole paragraph about it, and I feel like the author either had a unique experience growing up or thinks that's what millennials were into.
The Nokia got me, but only because it was hard to read, and I was expecting T9 mode. Manually typing each letter was only around for a couple years before T9 changed everything.
Different Strokes might well be more of a Gen-X thing. I remember it being on TV (in England) when I was a kid and remember recognising Gary Coleman when he showed up in the '80s Buck Rogers TV series, but I was very young at the time. Pre-school age definitely.
Also, the younger cast of Scrubs are Gen-Xers and they definitely threw in a few references to it.
But let's not forget that years-later re-runs were and still are a thing, even on the handful of channels that most people had back then, so there are bound to be some people younger than Gen-X who also grew up with those shows as their parents enjoyed them the second time around.
I remember reruns on Nick at Night into the early 00s. The theme song and Gary Coleman were pretty iconic but different strokes isn’t a millenneal experience
I didn't get that far even. <insert /me facepalm>
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