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People in the same age group tend to have similar interests and even if two people are complete strangers, they still might share some of the same memories. For example, remembering what TV shows they both liked as kids or what major world events they have witnessed.

These kinds of things can actually give away your age even if you don’t say the number or your birth date. Reddit user teddyjr32378 asked “Without mentioning age or date of birth, how old are you?” and the thread got pretty popular, being upvoted 46.6k times with 45.7k people getting deep into the nostalgia, naming movies, songs or other recognizable things that would let other people guess what age they are.

What is the thing you can say about yourself that would let others pinpoint the year you were born? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to upvote the submissions that you can relate to the most!

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I'm "had to make a mad dash sprint to the cassette player to mash the record button when your favorite song came on the radio" years old.

pradmlv , Joybot Report

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Been there done that, but it only means you are somewhere between 40 and 60 years old!

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers MTV actually played music videos.

Stormageddon252 , MTV Report

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

They sure did. And they always had "cooler" videos than VH1. Video killed the radio star... then reality shows killed the video!

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Would you like to accept a collect call from MomWe’reDoneComeGetUs?

Opselite , Abdulla Al Muhairi Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Rotary phones were a thing.

Sel_drawme , Billy Brown Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I remember physical keys for hotel rooms.

shmallory , Jonathan Haeber Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers There was only one newscast at 10pm, and before it started, a booming voice asked, “it’s 10pm. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE????” and after it was over, there was an hour of maybe an infomercial , then a test pattern, and TV was OVER for the night. And there was only 7 channels

beigereige , Staffan Vilcans Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I saw Disney's "The Lion King" in theaters when it came out.

FormerElf , Disney Report

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Kimmy Ceeahh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw Disney's original Jungle Book in the theater. Cried because I thought Baloo died.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Went to computer labs in elementary school to Paint and play pinball.

CaregiverMan , Retro Smack Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Drop dead Fred, Little Monsters, Ghost Busters, The Last Unicorn, & Labyrinth were my favorite movies as a child.

tilt-a-whirly-girlie , Jensen Farley Pictures Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I got in trouble in kindergarten because my tamagotchi kept telling me it was hungry

CatMilkHotel , Katy Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I’ve lived in two millennia’s, two centuries, and four different decades yet people still tell me I can’t call myself old.

fckinfast4 , Chrono Shop Report

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Jayne Kyra
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The calendar picture shows the date I was born. Edit: To be considered young by some made me feel better about the grey hair I have at 32.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Old enough to have my first phone be a nokia brick phone/flip phone to now having a smartphone. Ahh simpler times lol

RisingInkwell , Thomas Kohler Report

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When I was little, my favorite cartoons was My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, and She-Ra.

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I watched blockbuster close and remember when netflix mailed movies and videogames

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Why buy DVD's, we have everything on videotape.

LightlyStep , Brian Omura Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Grew up watching classic cartoon network shows such as dexter laboratory, courage the cowardly dog, Johnny bravo, the powerpuff girls and my personal favourite Ed, edd and eddy.

ThePaleKnight69 , Cartoon Network Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I’ve had experience with these ways of listening to music: 8 track, vinyl, cassette, CD, and mini disc.

beigereige , James Case Report

#19

Rabbit ears on my television..

Practical_Wonder_246 Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I remember Baby Jessica and I was afraid something like that might happen to me too.

iwant2saysomething2 , Susan Biddle Report

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We actually "dialed" a 7-digit phone number.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Until I was in pre-school there were 48 stars on the US flag.

excitom , Joel Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I remember Back to the Future in theaters.

Own-Cupcake7586 , Universal Pictures Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I was around when man landed on the Moon.

homevp , NASA Report

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

My mother wouldn't let me stay up. But my father was on a course in US at the time, and he came home with a load of fabulous souvenir stuff

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers When I was a kid the big playground argument was Sega vs Nintendo.

grombleduke , Dru Kelly Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers In elementary school, I got to watch the space shuttle Challenger explode on live television.

Edit: the more I think about this and read others' comments, while I was indeed in 2nd grade / 7yrs old, I'm almost positive school was out and I watched this at someone's house with my mother. I know we watched it on CNN and I can see that thin red stripe at the bottom of the screen and that font they used in the 80s in my head and no elementary school would've had access to that channel back then.

Pyrophagist , NASA Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I had a furrby as a kid

Communist-thelastone , Michael Fraley Report

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

Most dist(f)urbing thing is that the eyes are on front of the head. It implies that Furrby is a predator.

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I wore Dittos and high waisted bell bottom jeans to high school. We had a rotary phone in our house. We didn't wear seat belts in the car until I was older and most cars only had lap belts. There weren't car seats when I was a baby. Wooly Bully was the number one song the year I was born and Flashdance... What A Feeling was the number one song the month and year I graduated high school.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I was the first person in my high school to have a cell phone

clever-asshole , Popsugar Report

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

Mobile phones were not around when I was in high school. We never needed one either.

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Philly Bob Squires
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My first cell phone was a bag phone that plugged into the cig outlet in my car. It was like $60 a month for 30 minutes. I worked with a band and we'd often be outside the venue waiting to set up and couldn't get anyone to answer the door so I'll call and get them to open up! Dude would be like "how did you call me?" LOL

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

My father was given the exact model from the picture for his job, we still have it somewhere in a drawer

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

MY SECOND PHONE! It was indestructible. I had to give it up when I couldn't find a provider who could keep it in service any longer. Ironically, it had this totally cheesy protective case which did nothing protective at all.

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Brian Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never could afford the phone or the bills when I was in High school I was responsible for purchases and any bills I ran up.

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D K
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the erricson flip phone right before the Nokia

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John Baker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had one very much like this. It was good for about ten hours max - and that was standby time, not talk time. ;-)

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Vinay Pai
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kids in my school used to get their dads' cellphones to show off. But they wouldn't dare turn them on, incoming calls too, were charged by the second.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had to con my way to a mobile phone at work - still remember the pull up aerial!

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Sky Render
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was definitely the first person in my high school who was allowed to bring a laptop to class! Ah, the old 486SX/100... Slow as all-get-out, barely able to run the original DooM, battery life of about 2 hours, but oh so liberating to not have to hand-write everything out...

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

I dunno for certain if I was the first in my high school with a mobile, but having a mobile was so uncommon, nobody disagreed when I forgot my calculator at my math final exam, and I used my mobile instead :)

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