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Originally Posted by Geek44
The ripe old age of thirty?! Don't make me laugh (  ) |
I was thinking the same thing. I already had my bachelor's degree in 1980 and grew up without cable (didn't have it until I was 25). I actually got my first ATM card in 1980, and I was an "early adopter". We played Asteroids and other "video games" at the pizza shop or in the seedy arcades in Times Square or at beach resorts. Call waiting arrived when I was in High School, caller ID much later, and cell phones way after that. Until at least the late 1970's NASA hadn't made a major launch or landing without me watching, they were such big events. In my lifetime the Berlin Wall went up and came down, and the first (and only) moon landings were made. I
hand wrote a letter to President Johnson asking about the Vietnam War in 1967 or so. The FBI probably opened a file on me back then.
Most all of these events occurred before my first child was born in 1987, with the exception of my first "car phone". That was probably very early 1990's right around the time that the Berlin Wall came down...