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[–] BussyCat 5 points 2 hours ago
[–] roofTophopper 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] Matriks404 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Zoomber is the masculine definitive of Zoomba

[–] somtwo 7 points 3 hours ago

I feel seen/attacked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours 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] 3 points 7 hours ago

Hell yeah Golden Sun!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm born 1990 and this pic was my childhood

[–] Shard 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh God grandpa found the photo book again

[–] Psythik 38 points 12 hours 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.

[–] Harvey656 4 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours 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.

[–] Lennny 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Psythik 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

True, haha. I'm the oldest and my youngest sibling was also born in 1995. She had all the things that 90s kids had, thanks to hand-me-downs. Cassette Walkmans, N64, Windows 95, flip phones with black and white screens + no camera, etc.

[–] GoosLife 7 points 10 hours 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.

[–] PugJesus 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Psythik 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That's a fair assessment. She is the youngest and her asshole siblings would never let her use their game consoles. She didn't get her own until age 10.

But to be even more fair, I didn't get my first console (N64) until I was 9. Some kids were lucky enough to have parents willing to buy them expensive electronics at a younger age. Neither of us were that lucky/spoiled. But my neighbor who was one year younger than me had a SNES and a PC. I didn't get my own PC until 2004. Until then everyone except my dad had to share the living room computer, and it had the shittiest GPU in the world—GeForce4 MX 4000—which was basically a scam card. But it was good enough to run Driver and Spider-Man (the one based on the first Tobey film), so it was good enough for me. Half-Life 2 was out of the question, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

94 I started with my cousin's old SNES and a GBC. Good times. The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy still has some of thr best soundtracks ever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours 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.

[–] PugJesus 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I remember a lot after the age of 7.

[–] Matriks404 3 points 2 hours ago

I remember mostly tech and playing video games, lol.

[–] Sanctus 45 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours 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.

[–] Sanctus 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

" Zoomber"?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours 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.

[–] spicytuna62 5 points 13 hours 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.

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[–] TropicalDingdong 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus 9 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] nul9o9 15 points 14 hours ago

Needs more of Bungies Halo.

[–] randomdeadguy 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skullgrid 10 points 13 hours 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

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 4 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] kemsat 1 points 1 hour ago

Endoplasmic reticulum?

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)
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[–] Anticorp 5 points 12 hours 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] 6 points 13 hours 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] 8 points 14 hours 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] 3 points 11 hours ago

Hey that’s me!!

[–] cm0002 6 points 14 hours ago

Anybody remember the SHREK KETCHUP lolol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I was lit for most of 2005

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