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Really though, we were at the center of the tech boom growing up. VHS to live streaming. Physical media is retro in such a short time. It's not even necessarily the advancements on their own (which saying were massive may be an understatement) but also the implementation and sociatal acceptance.

We went from "don't talk to people on the internet, don't meet with them, don't give out personal information", to literal non-stop blogging of all our life events to as many people who care to see it. This is not a lamentation, merely a statement to express how far things have changed in effectively one generation.

It moved so fast that even most 90s kids don't have agreeable substance for "the way we did it" since it changed and developed so fast. People two years apart in the 90s can have radically different views of what it was like because it didn't stay that way for any length of time. VHS to DVD to Blueray and streaming. XBox, Kinect, to VR. Calling, to Email, to AOL, to text, to smartphones and message apps. It was a wild burst of tech that was astonishing and ground shaking.

We literally went from doing essays in a library to using internet and printers (at first my teachers even forbid students from using Internet as a source), heck I even wrote on a typewriter a few times

Pre-10s: I used google for everything and bought needless shit online. Dont trust anything you read there though.

Post-10s: I use AI for everything and buy needless shit online. Don't trust anything you read there though.

It's been fast like that since the end of WWII.
My parents were born in the early 60s and they saw records replaced with eight tracks and then cassettes and then CDs and then mp3s and now streaming.
Answering machines were a novelty when my parents were children and now we have cell phones.
The internet wasn't even something you could have imagined in your wildest dreams in the 1970s.

This all hits home. And for me, in the rural US at the time, the world got a lot bigger.

We went from expensive long-distance telephone calls and local BBSes to instant access to everyone and everything.

We went from 2-lane roads to affordable(ish) flights and direct highways.

Despite where we may be today, as an early adopter of everything, I'm happy to have had a front row seat to all that.

Funny how the fact that I've owned a Walkman, discman, iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPhone as music solutions is kind of generation defining.

You got 15 minutes!

My parents

I speak your language

There's also a Meeeeeeemooooomeeeeemoooo or a Neeeeeeee-nrrrrr Neeeeee-nrrrrrr, if you will.

Some 80's children will remember you also could get that sound from loading data from a K-7 tape.

As if someone born on December 31st 1999 wouldn't self identify as a 90's kid

Source: I was born in 1998 and I'm nostalgic of Nirvana, a group that disbanded before I was born

IDK, it's not impossible that someone who was born in the 80s will live go be freakishly old and outlive all the 90s kids.

not probable, but who knows, maybe they somehow avoided eating plastic based baby food or some shit.

I was born in 1990 and remember lots of stuff.

The meme specifies that he was born in the 1900s and grew up in the 1990s.

I was born in 1990. Fully a '90s kid.