10 Questions for Members who are 20 and under(or older)

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

I'm 14

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

 

I think my papa told me how they worked before, but I don't remember and I played around with one before. I found it quite amusing.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

Well back when I was 10 the only thing I had used the internet for was to look up weird sea creatures on google images so other than that nope.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

 

I don't think I have any memories of being in any sort of crisis

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

 

Nope, I've seen them before though

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

 

I've heard of Bill Clinton I think I know who he is but I can't put a finger on it. 9/11 isn't in my history textbooks, as a matter of a fact my school doesn't even let us touch the textbooks. Instead we get the pages photo copied for us. Though right now in Social Studies we're learning about the First Nations of Canada. 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

Do I count since I barely even know how to use one, and I don't plan on using one at all

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 

I remember floppy disks, I used to see them laying around my mom's computer all the time

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

 

I barely even use a phone, but I never did look through Yellow Pages since well I never usually use a phone and when I'm calling someone it's usually a family member.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.

 

Loads of them, I can't really say what one in particular though I know that I always liked the anime stuff and all of the stop motion / claymation stuff.

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 

I don't like to consider anything "dated" I just am not a fan of the term, but I can't really throw in any input for this because I haven't seen too much stuff from the 80's

Edited January 21, 2013 by Moog Voyager

[Nolanrob 19]

Just turned 17 on the 11th

 

1. My dad has phone that doesn't even have a rotary dial you had to ask the operator

 

2. I've had dial since I was 2 and got high speed about a year ago

 

3. The 9/11 attack and the U.S. banning human Cloning, yes i remember the cloning thing cause we were making stupid comments about it in school.

 

4. Yes my great grandma had one

 

5. People get very worked up, just like an other world events

 

6. My dad, he hates technology but he has to carry it cause he will get in trouble if he doesn't

 

7. I used to bring floppy discs in to show my power point presentations and the 3.5 discs weren't very popular at my school. so we never used them.

 

8. Saturday, I needed the number for my hobby shop.

 

9. Never watched very much cartoons mostly Animal Planet and Discovery Chanel

 

10. They are very good for when they were made.

[Marelin 38]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

 

 

Yes I did. It's about 19 years ago.

 

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

 

Yes I lived without any internet my whole childhood, because it was way too expensive and there was no flatrate. You had to pay for the minutes and hours you were online and it wasn't that common in most housholds yet.

 

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

 

 

Cold War and german bureaucracy.

 

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

 

 

Yeah, my parents had one of those, but the dials were hidden away quite good.

 

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

 

 

Well, it's something else. All those events are part of my life. I lived at that very moment those things happened. I was one of many germans at the "berliner Mauer" while and after it had been taken apart.

 

Bill will always be my intern jackass. I saw Bush win the election. I didn't know what would happen after that.

 

Hussein.. well, both gulf wars. I even saw how the ultimatum ran out and the first bombs were droppt at 3.33 a.m. my local time.

 

And 9/11 - After the first tower had been hit we all got the breaking news of it. We first thought of it as an accident, but after the second tower was hit we really got a bad feeling.

 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

 

Yes, I myself don't carry one. If I'm at work, I don't want to get disturbed. The same when I'm out. I was able to live without one for a long time. Only my parents forced me to carry one when I was about 12.

 

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 

 

Yes, we even had one of those really old PCs for these things. They were way bigger than a DVD. One of my first games was on 76 3.5 inch disks. THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL INSTALLING A GAME!

And always remember, never turn the switch up or you might override your data on mistake!

 

 

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

 

 

About 3 months.

 

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.

 

 

Bunny. Sailor Moon. OF COURSE!

 

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 

 

Nope, they're still eye candy.

Edited January 21, 2013 by Marelin

[Steel Accord 6,660]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

 

Yes, you pull the dial back on whatever number your dialing and wait for it to rotate back. I used one once when I was eight.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

There was a time when I didn't care. Does that count? The only thing on at the time were bad flash games.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

 

Yeah I admit it was 9/11. I'm probably forgetting something else, but that was the first one to really effect me. (Even emotionally.)

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

 

Nope, still had buttons. It did have rabbit ears though.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

 

I grew up with Clinton as President, but again, wasn't really aware of the history elsewhere until 9/11. Which when talked about in a historical context is heartbreaking. Other times it's insulting when people MY AGE talk about it like it happened a century ago. I SAW IT HAPPEN!

 

EDIT:  I realize we have members all over the world.  Feel free to cite whatever the latest history you saw in your school books was. 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

No I make frequent use of it. It's a better time piece than I watch, and I get great service anywhere. "You sound like a commercial." -James Bond, You Only Live Twice

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 

Yes, the earliest games I played were on them. Before the N64, that is.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

 

Once. I don't even remember when. (It was to order pizza though.)

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  

Oh God, that's hard!   Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, Looney Tunes, Hey Arnold, the Angry Beavers. Scooby Doo. Darkwing Duck. The Peanuts Gang. DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!   Really I was more into Power Rangers.

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 

Nope.   Darkwing Duck, Inspector Gadget, Transformers G1 were among my watch list.

[Gcdm 11]

1. 

 

2. We used to have dial-up, so i wasn't allowed to use it because it tied up the lines.

 

3. The attack on the USS Cole.

 

4. My grandma has one, I fixed it up last year when it broke. I love that thing.

 

5. Yes.

 

6. No, everyone carries a phone...

 

7. Eh....nah. Only the tiny 3"

 

8. 5 years ago....I think.

 

9. Animaniacs, a classic :3

 

10. Naw, I love them still to this day!

[Dusty Soul 2,614]

 15 years old

Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

Yes, and yes, my family used to have one upstairs, we got rid of it in 2006

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

no sadly, probably would've been better off if I had none

 

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

9/11

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

Yes actually, we had one of those till 2006 when we got our 50 inch flatscreen

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

I hate it, especially since text-books tend to give horrible information on said events.  

 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

Yes, me.  I don't carry a cell phone, but I do carry an iPod

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

(the 3.5 ones) Yes, my family still has some of those downstairs, and one time I took one to school in kindergarten, when we needed a flash drive.  

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

last week

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  

Winnie the Pooh.  

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

Some do some don't 

Edited January 21, 2013 by Dusty Soul

[Twiliscael 3,962]

Ah, hello. I'm 15 at the moment, living in a fairly-rich wooded suburban area.

 

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

Oh god, no. I've only seen them in the movies.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

I've had access to the internet basically mt entire life, however I could not access it without parental supervision until about age 10.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

Yep, September 11. I actually lived close enough to see the smoke and all in the sky. It's vivid in my memory.

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

I had one in  my basement, but we never used it.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

I don't know how to. It's just another subject we cover, you know? However, we'll never have that feeling of actually experiencing what it was like to live through those times. 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

We all have cell phones, save for my younger brother who's only 7.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

I remember these.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

Never in my life.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  

I liked Animaniacs, Pokemon, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Spongebob, and the Powerpuff Girls

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

I wouldn't know how you feel about these cartoons.

[Antismurf9001 1,271]

For reference, I'm exactly 20.

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

 

Yes, my family actually used to have one.  I don't know where it went though.  The last time I used it must have been over a decade ago.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

I think that I did.  It's hard to say though whether it was that we didn't have internet access, or my parents just didn't tell me that we did.  Anyways, there was a time when I was using the computer that I had no idea that there was an internet.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

 

You got it.  September 11.  I actually still vaguely remember that day.  I was pretty young though, so I don't think I fully understood it.

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

 

No, I always remember buttons.  I think my grandmother or great grandmother may have had one, but I'm not too sure.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

 

I actually haven't read about any of those (except Bill Clinton and 9/11) in a history textbook.  Reading about them isn't really terribly special to me though.

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

No.  Even my grandparents were convinced to carry one (mostly for safety reasons).

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 

I vaguely remember floppies (not the actual floppy floppies, but the ones covered in the square plastic shell).  I didn't use them too much, but I definitely knew what they were.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

 

Relatively recently actually.  Within the last month at least.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  

 

Rugrats.  I absolutely loved that show when I was young.

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 

I don't really know.  Probably.  They do seem to have a very different quality to them.

[the_jetfighter 94]

im 17 so here is my answers

 

1. yes, i used one last week at my grandparents house

 

2. i did not have access to the internet till i was about 13, before then i could have not cared if we had it or not.

 

3. the Swiss air flight 111 (1998)

 

4. we had a Sony trinitron, but it had no dials

 

5. i have never read about them in my textbooks (They must be outdated )

 

6. everyone has a cell phone in my family, although they are very much outdated.

 

7. i remember having an old computer and one of the racing wheels had a big floppy disk for it

 

8. yesterday

 

9. The Raccoon's 

 

10. not really, 1980s cartoons look like 1980s cartoons, unfortunately i did not watch much TV as a kid so i dont recall watching a whole lot other than the Raccoon's  

[Two-of-Hearts 168]

First off, I'm 29.

 

1. I know how to use one and I used on in the late 80s. My grandma had one. Actually a pretty nifty little piece of retro tech.

 

2. I got internet access in my home I think when I was around 14. It actually wasn’t that great because it was super slow, didn’t have half the cool things on it that it does today, had that loud ‘screeching’ dial up noise, and my parents didn’t let me play on it much anyway (cause of the porn). Cooler and more significant for me was the first PC video game I ever played which was Warcraft 2… good times.

 

3. I was in my first year of college when 9/11 happened.   The first major world shaking event that I remember is the Berlin Wall coming down (reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union). I remember watching the news cast, but I was only like 4 or 5 years old so I didn’t know what the Berlin Wall was at the time.

 

4. Again, my grandma had such a tv, and I remember watching that during the mid to late 80s.

 

5. Hurrican Katrina is in history books? 0_o  That happened yesterday for me. 0_o  Reading about Bill Clinton? Well for me the Clinton administration time period was a happier time for me overall, sure there was bad stuff going on, the usual middle and high school bull, but overall I think I was happier back then. Reading about the Clinton admin might actually give me nostalgia. And as I said above, I remember the news cast for the Berlin Wall but that was quite young for me, so reading about it in history books doesn’t phase me (I do remember that some of my history books mentioned it while I was in high school).    

 

6. My dad until very recently, he only got his first cell phone maybe two years ago. I only got my first cell phone about 4 years ago myself. I’m rather anti-social so have little need of such bobbles.  

 

7. Son, I remember playing the Atari ET game on the original Atari system that had WOOD PANELING…  so yeah I remember floppys. (And yeah, that game did suck… bad).

 

8. I dunno, late 90s? I do seem to recall looking up numbers for gaming/comic book stores around that time period.

 

9. You’re going to make me choose? It would either have to be Thunder Cats or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, both of which were highly in vogue when I was in Kindergarten. In fact, I remember in Kindergarten your ‘status’ was measured by how many Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys you had.

 

10.) Sure 80s cartoons seem dated to me, even in the 80s they showed older cartoons so when you’re little you can’t really tell the difference between a 60s cartoon and a 80s cartoon. I can now though, but I would consider both to be ‘old’ cartoons.

[Firelord Derpy 312]

Well I'm 19 so that's under 20 so here we go.

 

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

 

I know how to use one. I think my Grandmother had one at one point.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

​Eh, they monitored where I and how much time a day i was allowed on the computer.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

 

Obama's election. (Sorry If that offends.   ) 

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

 

Nope

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

 

I'm home schooled so I got my lessons from the internet and my parents.

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

Not really. My brother and sister don't need/have interest in them but they're not against them.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 

Dad did programs on them when I was really young.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

 

I think I was looking for the Vet's office.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  

 

Spongbob Squarepants

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 

I don't remember really.

[Starshine 16,335]

I'm older than 20, and here are my answers

 

1. I used to have a rotary phone in my old house. The damn thing clicks like a parrot on crack, I couldn't use it at night without waking my parents up. The last time I touched one would be around 8 or 9 years ago, I'm not really sure.

 

2. I lived the first 12 years of my live without a computer, I started using internet regularly on somewhere around 2000.

 

3. The Black March of 1998, when huge riots broke over the nation and countless hundreds of Chinese-Indonesians were butchered and raped and burned.

 

4. Can't say I could... My earliest memory of television already have a remote control to go with it. And it's damn freaking huge you can hide an entire child in it.

 

5. I'm already well above the school age, so nope.

 

6. Almost everyone in my family uses cellphone except my grandfather from my mother's side. He just hate technologies.

 

7. Heh, I still have some of those artefacts. I used those things in my earlier school's computer course.

 

8. I never really use those big damn books. I believe my father is still subscribed to that book.

 

9. It should be between Tom&Jerry or Doraemon.

 

10. I never really cared that much about cartoons, so i couldn't say anything about it. I just loves to watch them when I'm young.

[Envy 6,483]

I'm 24, but so far looking through the questions has made me feel like I'm in the young group actually. xD

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

A what now?

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

Before my mid-teens we had dial-up internet, which was horrible. I was already getting addicted, and being on the internet took up the phone line. You can not believe how amazing high-speed internet was to a former-dial-up user.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

First hand memory of? What does first hand mean, because I never experienced 9/11 first hand or anything. I suppose I could say the OKC bombing. Actually that was pretty close to where I live.

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

We did. And my grandma still has one in one of the bedrooms, which I frequently used when I visited there up to 6 years ago when I stopped staying there for summers.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

Well, in college it is pretty weird to read about modern stuff.

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

No. Although my grandma only has one of those pre-paid ones.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

Lol floppy discs. I had to use one in high school because my last desktop's USB drive was messed up and wouldn't actually work with 90% of USB products (including iPods -_-). It felt weird because I had this group project and I came in with a floppy disc and they're like "Um... What's that?"

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

Power outages.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that. 

The Powerpuff Girls!

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

80s cartoons have always looked dated to me. But I was a baby in the 80s so what can I say?

[Zygen 6,066]

I'm 15 just to let you know if its valuable info or anything .

 

1. Rotary phones are the ones with the circle thing right? If so, then I have a pretty good idea how to, my parents actually had one in our house, but it didn't work, they got rid of it now, but I think if I really had to I could find out how.

 

2. Hm.. I'm not exactly sure to be honest, I can't really remember if I had internet during my early years. I just remember using a computer since I was like 3 or something . I played discs and stuff though.

 

3. Hm. To be honest I don't remember September 11th at all. I can't really think of knowing about any national disasters and having first hand experience with them. I had experience with Hurricane Katrina, ya know being in Lousiana .

 

4. I never remember us having a TV with dials on it. Ironic enough my dad found an old tv of his with bunny ears though.

 

5. Hm. Well idk its just information for me, I wasn't old enough to have any real feelings attached to any of the things from the past, so I guess the only real difference would be I don't have any real emotional feelings that are recalled from it.

 

6. Well no, but ironic enough with the fact that I have no life really I hardly ever carry my cell phone anywhere, much less use it lol. I just have it to take to school and keep in my bag to call my mom in case I miss the bus or something. I've gone plenty of places without bringing my cell phone though. I bet my parents use their cell phones more then me..

 

7. Hehe, being the computer nerd I am I know what a floppy disk is. I've even seen some and my parents had some before, I don't remember using them though.

 

8. I never really used yellow pages, we had one in our home of course, but I never used it that I remember since I didn't use the phone for anything.

 

9. Well.. I was to young to really say I fell in love with alot of my earlier cartoons, but the first cartoon I think I fell in love with was Danny Phantom. I loved that show so much, to the point where I wanted to be just like Danny . I'd play pretend to be him and stuff and.. Yeah... I could've been in a Danny Phantom fandom for crying out loud..

 

10. Depends on how dated you think 60's cartoons are. But I do think they look dated, I've actually watched a few once or twice though. Of course they do look dated considering they are like 30 years old .

Edited January 22, 2013 by Zygen

[SrFrog 928]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago? We didn't even have landlines in the area of Mexico we lived in, it was a rather new part of Tijuana at the time.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

I didn't even knew about the internet until 2003.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

EZLN's war against the Mexican government back in 1994, very vague memories but memories none the less.

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it? Yes, it was a freaking beast and the only positive thing about them was the volume level they reached.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks? Kinda strange when you can perfectly remember those moments and people with a great amount of detail, almost nostalgic.

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count. That would be moi, but that's due to me not having a use for the things.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago? No, but I remember when flash drives were worth more than a couple of dollars.

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number? Just last year actually, but the thing really shrank down in size.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  Saint Seiya, that's anime but that's about the only type of cartoons we used to get back than.

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me? 80's cartoons were never any good and we knew it, we just decided to ignore that fact.

[SuperUltimateBrony 351]

I'm nineteen and here are my answers.

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

 

I know how to dial one, but I've never actually done so.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

From '93 - '97 I did not have Internet access.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

 

Nope. EgyptAir Flight 990

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

 

My family has not owned a television like that.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

 

I'm not exactly sure what you mean with this question. Everything listed here is a part of history of the United States in some way. It felt boring though. I dislike history.

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

 

Myself.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 

I remember those floppy disks. I've never used those.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

 

About two and a half years ago.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that. 

 

Cartoon wise: Samurai Jack

Anime wise: DBZ

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 

I don't know how the cartoons from the 60's appear to you. However, when I watch The Jetsons or The Smurfs, they don't sound outdated or anything. I can tell that they were made years ago, though.

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

1. Yeah, I did maybe five or six years ago. I visited someone who was into rotary phones and I had fun learning to use one

 

2. Yes

 

3. Eeyup. 9/11

 

4. Maybe when I was very young, I can't quite remember.

 

5. Most of my history textbooks are ancient so the only thing I've read about in them that you mentioned is the reunification of Germany. To be honest it doesn't feel much different than reading about anything else in them, but I remember that it was interesting.

 

6. If you had asked the question a few months ago I would have been able to answer yes, but my grandmother finally succumbed to pressure and bought one. She never uses it, but...

 

7. Yes and I remember using them as well

 

8. Maybe around five years ago? I rarely look up phone numbers at all even now so it's difficult to say.

 

9. Well, it's not much compared to how I feel about FiM but I might say the show Arthur on PBS. I watched it pretty much every day and it helped ignite my love of reading.

 

10. Well I don't know how cartoons from the 60's look to you, but cartoons from the 80's look pretty dated to me.

 

 

Whew. I hope I answered all of your questions satisfactorily.

[Rainbow Dash Loyalty 1,275]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago? 
I know how to use one, I've seen one at my cousins Grandmother's place but I've never actually called someone

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.
 I've kinda used the internet all the time, my parents usually used it to research stuff but not it's all just facebook for them xP

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

  Now that you said so, probably 9/11 xP

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?
 Yes I remember I had the really old foxtel remote, before foxtel digital came out

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?
 I don't think I've read anything about them in my history class, probably because I learn Australian history xP But I do know them by common sense

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.
 Haven't had a cell phone for years ever since my sister broke my first one, but I recently got one for Christmas and I feel like a total noob at smart phones xP

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

 I didn't really use computers back then, it was usually just games and youtube xP

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?
 My God I forgot the last time I used Yellow Pages, I probably didn't even use it

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  
 Either Spongebob Squarepants, Rugrats, Dexter's Laboratory, Ren & Stimpy or Invader Zim. I loved them all at the same time xD

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

 They sort of do in my opinion >.< but I'd say the 80's cartoons were better

[Curry Pinch 34]

I'm 22 and I was actually born in USSR (we became independent when I was about a year old)

 

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago? I think we had one until I was 6, then we got one with buttons, but the old rotary one was given to me as a toy, so I guess I played with that for good 3 years after it was replaced.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count. Lived without internet until I was 12.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11. I remember vividly news reports from Chechnya, I must have been 6 at that time, as I remember my brother who is two years younger shouting'' I wanna watch Chechnya on TV, wanna see shooting and explosions''

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it? Yea, we did have one.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks? Not sure if I had things like that in history textbooks, but I never paid much attention to history textbooks, however some parts about events when USSR collapsed are interesting, as I can say: ''My dad was there! And I was a toddler in that time''

 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count. It took a long time to convince my grandma that she needs one, and she still prefers to use landline, and basically uses hers only if she's staying in hospital or visiting her friends for several days. I and my mother both refuse to use smartphones though, we stay with very basic ''call and text'' models.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago? When our family got a computer, it already did not have the drive for  5 1/4 inch floppies, but I have been using 3.5 inch floppies a great deal.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number? I suppose 2008, while I was in New Zealand, landlines are really popular down there still

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.  ''Fantadroms'' it's a Latvian made cartoon that has this really LSD influenced feel I would love to watch some now

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me? Not sure. I love the old Russian and Latvian ones, but I find ones from the other side of the Iron Curtain difficult to relate to. Too fast motion, too grim themes, I dunno, just not my piece of cake.

[Night Shine 772]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

No, I don't. I've never even seen one! D:

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

Nope...

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

To be honest, I don't actually remember 9/11!   The first one I spose I have the vivid memory of is Michael Jackson's death a couple years ago. I remember exactly where I was, who told me, and how...just like most people with 9/11. >.<

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

Barely, just barely. The memory is so faded that the only thing I know about it is that it exists.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

I haven't read about Katrina in textbooks; I do remember experiencing that while it happened. However, Bill Clinton seems kind of like an inside joke from the last generation to me, one that I can play along with and know about but never really get. 9/11 is history to me though; the way that it emotionally ripped the nation is impressive, but I will never be able to share the same pain you all did. I've barely heard anything about the reunification of Germany...DAMN YOU HISTORY TEXTBOOKS, WHAT HAPPENED THEN?! Likewise with Saddam Hussein. All i know is that he's a terrorist and a 'bad guy'. :

 

EDIT:  I realize we have members all over the world.  Feel free to cite whatever the latest history you saw in your school books was. 

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

Nope : Although my grandma doesn't have one, not out of refusal but out of a general struggle with the ridiculous amount technology has progressed. It kinda left her in the dust >.<

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

CDs were discontinued?! O.o I remember CDs then. Still, I barely remember floppy disks at all, and I certainly don't remember using them.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

Never.

 

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that. 

Dammit, ya caught me. MLP is the first cartoon I embraced--that is to say, I see it as the best thing that's ever happened to me--but the first cartoon i really loved was probably Nickelodeon's The Fairly Oddparents. *dons nostalgia goggles* It was a lot like MLP in that it had good lessons, memorable characters, and great humor.....but it will never be as good as the awesomeness that is MLP:FiM. :3

 

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

Quite frankly?

Yes.

I very much respect the generation's nostalgia for them, but still, I've always found it fascinating the way they (you?) fawn over them. Not bad at all; there's nothing wrong with it. It's just....intriguing to me.

 

 

Hey, thanks for posting this. With the way that our society works, it's not often that people of different generations can sit down and compare their life experiences. Cool topic! /)

[Wingnut 7,037]

WOW!  Thank you for all the wonderful replies...WAY more than I would've ever expected.   I was hoping for 10 to 20 answers at the most. You're making me blush. And yet, remember how Rainbow Dash acted when she counted dozens of pegasi in the library...and Fluttershy is nowhere to be found? Yeah...

 

There were two more people I was hoping to hear from who did not take the survey. If you're reading this you know who you are. But because I'm more like Fluttershy than Rainbow Dash, I'm not going to twist your arm.

[TailsIsNotAlone 3,697]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

Yes and yes. (It's pretty self-evident I think.) I think the last time I dialed one was at a great-grandparent's house. I was a kid at the time, so it was quite a while back.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

I sure did! Before I was 10 or 11 (1995-96), nobody I knew had the Internet. When we did it was a very slow dial-up connection and we could only use it at home. I don't think the Catholic school I went to was very keen on it yet. xD And I didn't use it very much for anything until my senior year of high school. I didn't have an email address until I was 19.

 

(Looking back, maybe it was for the best. I grew up at a time when having the Internet really meant something. It was a rite of passage, in a way. It was a thrilling opportunity to communicate and express yourself to a vast audience of people you would never meet, and I still see it that way. Fast-forward to today, and that opportunity is being wasted by millions (mostly non-bronies) who did grow up with it and feel entitled to say whatever they please.)

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

Nope, I was already in high school when 9/11 happened. The earliest one I remember is the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. I didn't know much about it then, just that some nut bombed a building in Oklahoma and a lot of people were horrified and sad. I remember the O.J. Simpson trial if that counts, and I thought he wasn't guilty, which shows you just how young I was at the time.

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

You know, I think we did, but it must have been when I was very little. By the time my brother and I started watching TV a lot, buttons and remote controls were prevalent. Now I use my parents' old TV in my apartment. It's a big heavy 27-incher with no A/V hookups. xD

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

EDIT:  I realize we have members all over the world.  Feel free to cite whatever the latest history you saw in your school books was. 

I'm afraid I can't. Those things were all current events when I was growing up. ^^

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

I did for a while. I did not want a cell phone. Didn't want one when they got big in the late 90's, didn't want one when I went to high school. My mom finally bought me a really bad one at Christmas '05 that was literally good for nothing except dialing numbers, then got me a new one in '07 which I've had ever since. It's an old clamshell with no camera and limited Internet capabilities. I see no reason to update it either. ^^

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

YES! I remember both! I loved those old floppy disks. We played computer games on those in my private school computer class--Oregon Trail, Carmen SanDiego. Awesome memories. I remember the 3.5's too, that was all we used for transferring files until we started using flash drives. (And they were junk too.)

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

Several months ago, when I still had no Internet connection in my apartment.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that. 

Oh boy, that's hard. I think it would have to be Sonic the Hedgehog, the Saturday morning cartoon that rocked my world for a few years until it was pushed out by the (vastly inferior) Power Rangers. Sonic was awesome, Tails was cute, and Sally was dreamy. Those were the days. I loved Garfield & Friends too.

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

To me they don't look dated at all, just really cheesy. xD  Personally I thought the cartoons of the 90's were way better. I don't know if anyone remembers Captain Planet or the Get-Along Gang from the 80's, but they weren't the greatest. Shows like Tiny Toon Adventures really raised the bar in the early 90s, a revolution that lasted until the cancellation of Animaniacs. I never liked another kid's cartoon on that level again...until My Little Pony.

Edited January 25, 2013 by TailsIsNotAlone

[Rolls Royce 606]

I'm 18, born March 8, 1994.

1.  Yes, but I've never used one.

 

2.  I'm not sure about this one, we had dial up when I was really young, but I never used it.

 

3.  9/11, I was in the 2nd grade.

 

4.  We had this TV from the late 1970's - early 1980's my mom's parents passed down to our family.  We finally replaced it a year ago with a 50" HD flat screen.  My Xbox looked surprisingly good on that old TV.

 

5.  It really didn't feel that weird to me, it was just stuff I remember.

 

6.  No, me and my dad both have an iPhone 4, while my mom and sister have a Verizon flip phone, and my 4 year old brother is too young to have a cell phone.

 

7.  I remember 3.5" floppy discs, the last time I used them was in my Freshman year of high school from 2008-'09.

 

8.  I also used them a month ago to look up Pizza Hut's phone number when I was at the dentist.

 

9.  For me, it'd have to be Pokemon.

 

10.  I'd have to say kind of on this one.

Edited January 23, 2013 by Rolls Royce

[FireFox 82]

1.  I have used a rotary phone quite a bit, but not lately.  I have also dialed using the switch hook (hang up button).

 

2.  I didn't get internet access until 1995 or so.  Before that I had Delphi and various BBS's I would connect to with a 2400 baud modem (you could read the text scrolling on the screen it was so slow).  My first high speed internet was an ISDN line that was 2 x 64k channels for a total of 128kbps. 

 

3.  The first disaster I can remember was when the shuttle Challenger blew up.  I was home sick from school that day and watched it on TV.  I was 12 years old.

 

4.  Yes, my family had a couple of tv's that had dials.  I remember the day we got cable and it had a wired remote with a rotary dial on it.

 

5.  None of those things had happened yet the last time I read a history book.

 

6.  No, we've all entered the cell phone era.  We don't have cell coverage within 18 miles of our house though, so we use them only for emergincies when we are taking a long trip.

 

7.  I have seen 8" floppies and used 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" (single/double sided, double/high density).  I do have to say I liked the 5 1/4" a lot better than the 3 1/2" because they didn't get track 0 errors as much.  In my job I used reel-reel tape drives on an IBM 360 mainframe.

 

8.  I used the phone book just a couple of days ago.  I have a phone book next to the phone in the living room.

 

9. The first cartoon I fell in love with would probably be Transformers gen 1.  I also liked G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Voltron (I liked the lions better than the vehicles), Animaniacs, Battle of the Planets, Loony Tunes, and Merrie Melodies. 

 

10.  Although I can tell a difference, I don't think any of them are "dated".  I do think, with a few exceptions, that the animated shows of today don't have nearly the same quality of the older ones.

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

1. Do you know how to use a rotary phone and have you ever dialed one? If so, how long ago?

I've never dialed a rotary phone nor needed to.

 

2. Did you have an early part in your life without Internet access? Parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

I was never exposed to the internet until the age of about 14. It was not available due to the obscurity of where I lived, or a lack of computer access. Even then, it was only when I was allowed to use the computers at school.

 

3. What is the earliest national or world crisis you have a first hand memory of? Most of you will probably say September 11.

I was born during the fall of the iron curtain and am only about a week older than the modern nation of Lithuania. But the first thing I really remember about big in the news was probably the Hubble Space Telescope accident missions by NASA (which is an incredible feat, since I would've been only a few months old at the time. Only vague images I recall.) I never was really aware of world affairs until I realized how big a deal people were making about September 11th more than a month after it happened.

 

4. Can you recall if your family had an old-fashioned TV with dials on it?

I remember buying one from a garage sale for $4. It was awesome and made for the perfect Super Nintendo experience.

 

5. Can you tell me what it's like to read about Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton, the reunification of Germany, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in history textbooks?

Only read partly into things like Glasnost when I was in history class. Canadian Social Studies is far less interested in American Presidents. This, taken in context to the question before previous, the Great Forest Fire of Kelowna was a really big deal in British Columbia in 2003.

 

6. Do you or does anybody in your family refuse to carry a cell phone? Again, parents disallowing it because you were too young doesn't count.

I don't find I practical [yet?] to have one so I don't.

 

7. Do you remember old school 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for computers? Maybe you're so young you don't even remember the 3.5 inch disks that were discontinued just a few years ago?

Are you kidding? That's the kind of computer I learned how to use from the very start. I remember when Macs were called Macintoshes, and they were beige and resembled the case for my mom's sewing machine.

 

8. When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages to look up a phone number?

Last year some time when I was looking up the address of my old workplace.

 

9. What was the first cartoon you fell in love with? Don't say MLP:FiM. You're all supposed to be at least 13 so I know you have a well-liked cartoon from before that.

Arthur from PBS, from the books by Marc Brown.

 

10. Do cartoons from the 1980s look and sound as dated to you as cartoons from the '60s appear to me?

Since I have a bit of know in making animation, I can see the difference quiet easily. The comparison is not very aesthetic for me, it's far more technical.