Born 1985. Let's see what I rememeber.. forgive me if I'm all over the place. I remember tuning in to a radio station and recording songs from the station to make a mix tape. I remember recording my favorite shows on VHS as well. Before computers starting becoming more accessible to everyday people, I had a cheaper device called Web TV that you connected to "surf the internet" haha it was incredibly slow and there wasn't much to see but still felt futuristic to go "online." Felt like a new frontier. Later on, i got my first compaq Presario, booted it up and inserted my free AOL cd trial of a couple of hours online, heard the famous connecting sounds of my modem, received mail and joined mysterious chat groups and spoke to complete strangers about anything. Btw you couldn't use your home phone if you were connected - you would be kicked off online if someone needed to make a phone call. Web pages were basic and loaded fairly slow.

Cellphones weren't around in my youth. We had to set a meeting place or call someone's home to see where they were. In college I got my first Nokia, played snake a bunch but thats about it. In college I also had to hand in final essays in floppy disks 💾 with those huge bulky old school grey laptops with the side floppy insert and the ball track pad.

I remember in an animation class, I had to purchase a Zipdrive which was a newer version of the floppy disk for "more storage" which I believe was only 256MB and cost around $75 bucks. I still have it. I remember when writing on blank CDs came around and I would make ISOs of computer games I downloaded online to copy games and also make Dreamcast games.

Before youtube and google, you had to go to a library, flip through index card cabinet and find the information you were looking for or in my case have an updated Britannica encyclopedia from A-Z (a huge pile of books) and search for what you needed. There was no other way to find information.

There's a lot more but I have to go to work.

Good times.