I was 4 years old, listening to a record on headphones connected to this rig. Leaned too far back, and caught the 1/4 inch input jack on the headphones right in my fucking eyeball.
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We had very a similar home audio system, except the CD player for mine could pull out, it had ports for a headphone jack and power, and when you pulled it out the main system just had the headphone male and power male sticking out. It was such a an odd design to have it be portable. It was most definitely not meant to be a walkman because it had zero skip protection, it just played CDs. It was bulky too, a square that was larger in length and width than a CD case, and depth was about four or five CD cases.
The double deck tape player was huge for making mixtapes, that was always so much fun.
And as for SNES, my brother and I saved up to drop the $150 on that as well. You may be a little older than me, I was born in '87, my brother '86.
The '90s were good.
A little, but none of us are young anymore. ‘79 here. Love being able to claim the 70s though I don’t remember them.
I'm the same way about the '80s. I got a little more of them but don't remember anything obviously. I'm sure your '80s are my '90s, there was something special about the time that I really started to get into music.
It's funny, because when you're a kid, a fan of 8 years is a lot, but 38-46 is essentially the same these days, just some not-so-young kids.
Yep. The kids born in the late 80s/early 90s were my little buddies, kids, who kids my age, would look after. Just like the kids born in the late 60s/early 70s would look after us. But now, I work with people that age, and we're all just old. Like you're still young in your 20s, you hit 30 it starts to be over for you as far as doing young people stuff. I have friends in their 30s, 40s, and 50s and I identify with all of them age-wise. 60-65 and up I respect but I think of them as "older and wiser." Younger people (20s) seem like they're too young to relate to. We're cool, but they're a generation apart.
As far as generations go, I'm technically GenX, but I identify with most of GenX and older Millennials. I feel like we had a lot of the same experiences. I don't really buy into generational divides anyway. They're fine if you're in the middle. When you get closer to the edge and start mashing the names together, I feel like you're admitting the groups are not that distinct after all.