22 Signs You're Stuck Between Gen X and Millenial

[LoveTrains]

Aug 4, 2015 13:11:20 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

Aug 4, 2015 10:49:26 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

I loved You Can't Do that on Television! But I did have a beeper for a brief time in 1996.

I watched a lot of TV as a kid but have no idea what this shows is. I have seen both the other two shows.

It was the one where kids got slimed.

[downtoearth]

alleinesein and So_Fetch - the turtle was Logo - the first programming "game" for kids in the 80's. I loved that game and played for hours. You would command the turtle, which was normally a triangle, not that star thing, to draw lines and turn angles and such. You could make simple designs like a star...

or complex ones like this...

 

I also had this book from like 1983 that showed you how to use BASIC and start using logo to "talk to your computer."

[penguingrrl]

Aug 4, 2015 14:01:08 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

alleinesein and So_Fetch - the turtle was Logo - the first programming "game" for kids in the 80's. I loved that game and played for hours. You would command the turtle, which was normally a triangle, not that start thing, to draw lines and turn angles and such. You could make simple designs like a star... or complex ones like this... I also had this book from like 1983 that showed you how to use BASIC and start using logo to "talk to your computer."

Thanks for the explanation! I had a vague memory of working with the turtle in school library classes in 2nd grade, but hadn't the slightest idea of what exactly we were doing. 

[So_Fetch]

Thanks for the explanation! I loved Seymour Simon. He came to my elementary school and signed a copy of one of his other books for me.

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Aug 4, 2015 13:56:14 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Aug 4, 2015 13:11:20 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

I watched a lot of TV as a kid but have no idea what this shows is. I have seen both the other two shows.

It was the one where kids got slimed.

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Ah. I don't think I ever watched that. I maybe saw a clip? Was it Nick? We didn't have that until I was 15 or 16.

[twohearted]

I'm definitely a millennial and to me this was much less relatable than the previous one that was posted. I really felt the other was too broad which is why many Millenials related.

[nsuhomer]

This mostly fits.

Except I got a beeper from 'JJ! The KING of Beepers!!!'

[secretlyevil]

I can relate to most of these. Wooooo! Lost generation right here.

[terpsfan]

wrote college applications on a typewriter and first email freshman year of college (hello telnet!). Spent a lot of time in shared computer labs until I met my boyfriend (now DH) who had a beeper and a computer (and a car which was way more important to me at the time). He was so useful!

I knew a lot of Nick shows from babysitting. SNICK was the best!

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[terpsfan]

I didn't know Lizzie but I wanted to be Clarissa so bad

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It was Zima with a shot of Midori added in.

#1972

[greeneggs]

Aug 4, 2015 22:10:54 GMT -5 @heyitsme said:

It was Zima with a shot of Midori added in.

#1972

Well aren't we fancy.  We just dropped a Jolly Rancher in there to make it taste less like shit.

I think the reaction to getting a cell phone would be a good indicator of generations.  My sister expected to have a phone of her own because everyone got one by high school but when I got mine a few years earlier I was pissed because it was much easier to blow curfew and other fun things if my parents didn't have a good way of finding me.  Pagers were so convenient to suburban delinquency.  

[rootbeerfloat]

Aug 4, 2015 22:28:43 GMT -5 greeneggs said:

Aug 4, 2015 22:10:54 GMT -5 @heyitsme said:

It was Zima with a shot of Midori added in.

#1972

Well aren't we fancy.  We just dropped a Jolly Rancher in there to make it taste less like shit.

We did this, too. Still tasted like shit, lol. But, you know, it seemed classier than Strawberry Hill.