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We all like to think that age is just a number. And it kinda works until you come across a relic from the old times. Your heart starts pumping, and you gotta tell yourself "I ain’t a kid no more."

So when someone started the "I’m this old" Twitter challenge, it blew up in an instant. People started sharing pictures of old-school stuff that best represents how old they’ve gotten. From Myspace accounts and floppy disks to Accelerated Reader and Yogos Bits, there’s a relatable thing for virtually everyone. So let’s go down memory lane, where everything feels so much more recent than it actually is.

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Beeps
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just WHY can’t you get those any more? I even had much more exciting ones with fish and baskets and all sorts of amazing scenery inside.

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Old School Image Projectors

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These things are still being used in schools in South Africa...

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If any of these objects seem familiar, there’s a great chance you belong to the millennial generation, which covers anyone born from 1981 to 1996. That being said, the youngest millennials are now fully-grown adults. That means we can clearly spot the generational differences in comparison to to Generation X (born from 1965-1980) and baby boomers (born from 1946-1964).

According to Pew Research Center, millennials make up the 2nd largest generation in the US electorate, “a fact that continues to shape the country’s politics given their Democratic leanings when compared with older generations.” In general, this demographic group is “more educated but there’s a sharp economical divide between those with a college education and those without it.”

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Steve Barnett
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently, whatever your first choice was, it was never a mine. Never realised that. Just thought I was always lucky.

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To compare with their predecessors, millennials tend to be more conscious about their health and general well-being. A 2013 Aetna poll showed that “baby boomers were likely to define 'healthy' as not falling sick.” Meanwhile, millennials consider healthy eating habits and physical activity as the definitions of healthy. That explains why we have seen such a rise in food preferences like vegan, gluten-free, organic, and other natural alternatives.

On the other hand, there’s a steady tendency of decline in millennial homeownership. Business Insider suggests that this is due to the fact that as a whole “they have less money than their parents did at the same age.” According to this report titled “Are Millennials Different?” by The Federal Reserve: millennials have lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth compared to baby boomers.

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varwenea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The front piece is removable to discourage thieves from breaking into the car to steal it. Classic!

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thee1nonlykRiS
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some ppl have mad skills on these things! It blows my mind. I could barely make anything recognizable! haha

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Watching Movies On VHS

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Daria B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, and do you remember when you had to play Final Fantasy 8 on 5 separate CDs? (The 5th was the installation disc, PC version)

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Cassette Adaptors

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Daria B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was also useful for old and almost broken cassette players to play mp3 files on.

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TV/Game Computer Switch

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varwenea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Laser pointer with different tips to create different looks. High tech. 😉

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Rick
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had one with a loaded spring in it so when you reached to get one and pull it out, metal snapped down onto the victims finger or thumb. It was actually quite painful.

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kate h
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a newer version. I got mine in the late 60's - it had black paper inserts with the patterns :)

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Movie Classics

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Pogs

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Mimimimi
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had those too when I was a kid, but with pictures of the looney tunes on them! Flippo's!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had to use these when I was in 1st-3rd grade and i´m 13. They may be old but their still in use today so...

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Bunzilla
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our... third? Fourth? Computer was an original Bondi blue one. Toward the end of its life, we had to heat up the CD-Rom Drive with a hair dryer in order to get it to recognize discs! Ahhh, memories.

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Jill Pulcifer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im too old for this :( I still remember when Bill Gates gifted the town library and school with new window's 95 machines. It was amazing going from the DOS systems we previously had.

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TheHerplover
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always turned them all onto different things that would match up and make one big picture

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Joe Bloe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back when Apple computers were realistically priced for what you were getting

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Missy Barton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please, the computers in my elementary school were tape players and keyboards attached to a tv.

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I graduated in '97. I think I juuuuust missed these.those colors looked like my background on word perfect, though.

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Ivana Junas
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our school missed this stage - we had access to only the Macintosh IIx (produced in 1988) until 2001 when they replaced all the units in the school with Windows 2000 machines.

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Marshk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow I remember the day my high school upgraded to a lab with these computers. It was such a big deal!

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Kay Becker
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Computers were just becoming a thing in schools when I graduated.

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Al Reilly
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our school computer was a Mainframe and you had to put shoe boxes full of punch cards in it to make your program work & if the cards got mixed up you were screwed

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Magpie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*Cough* my school had ONE computer, we had to book a time. We could feed it cards with tiny holes in them to make it work. Putting the holes in the cards was another machine about the size of a fridge. The horror when you dropped your cards!!! It could do some maths.

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GumShoe359
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our school started out with just one that you had to share with the class and take turns...you're not that old if you had a whole room of those.

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Katie and Jared Coates
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone had money we had like Lisa Macs up until 1999 at my school. They ran DOS and Oregon Trail and that was about it.

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thee1nonlykRiS
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ol' computer lab! Haha yes but our computers weren't this new, more like the one pictured in #33 above

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Dave Chapman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My computer class was building a board where you could plug a few wires into it and make some lights come on. The only computer in the City was at IBM, was bigger than my Crew Cab 4x4 and ran on punch cards! I learned how to program it to make a 5' B&W poster of a girl in a bikini made completely from !#$%^&(){}[] characters! This was my kids computer class above.

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Kimberley Thomas
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My college had these when I entered as a freshman. When I graduated and became an adult, I was all set to buy myself a Pink one as I used in my College Computer Lab. That all changed when I discovered the price.

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Dawn Adams
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We didn't have computers when I was in school. Nobody had computers. Damn

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Jayne Sargent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hon, you're an infant compared to me. I was married before I ever saw a PC.

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mewmew34
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks so pretty! We never had computers that nice at my school, even as they upgraded from Apple IIs.

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Dizzyaudiohh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had always wanted one of these.. I thought they were so cool.

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Id row
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another person who doesn't realize how not old they are. My school had a Commodore 64. And when I say 'a', I mean one.

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KEBI Photography
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Way better funded than most. Though I call dibs on the orange one!

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Jodi Forrester
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our first computers in elementary school! We all wanted to sit at our favorite color computers. Lol

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Surya Amriza
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those are Mac desktops, right? Mac desktop has always been considered luxurious even when I was in college back on 1996.

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Analyn Lahr
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Younger than me. My schools didn't have anything that fancy.

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Shell O
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep! There was one pink one in my college classroom and I had to use that one!!! Was sad if I didn't get to!!!

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Emperor Kitten
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact! When buying in bulk, Apple wouldn't let you choose the colors you got. They allowed it briefly until they realized no one wanted yellow or orange.

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Shinomi Chan
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your schools had awesome computer labs. We just had regular square ones. ._. (In a dusty old room)

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BG
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sold these when they first came out. Guess I'm old...

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Brandy Grote
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wow, we had all Telex machines and one Trash 80 that only the most advanced students were allowed to touch!

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Sergio Bicerra
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once saw a post that some people make fish tanks out of these, cause looked so cool

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Dave P
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh god, I remember that nightmare of a machine in school, Apple sold them at cost to schools in the 90's to get kids to try out Macs instead of PC, I am still PC but most MacHeads my age got their mac start here

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