Millennial, here (1988) and this is just my early-to-mid teen years, which I consider part of my childhood.
Showed the meme to my GF who born in 1995 and she couldn’t even relate to half of this starter pack. Her era was Wii and DS, not GBA and PS2. Her first phone was an iPhone.
This looks like born in 95 with an older brother starter pack…
She got started late smh we were all playing GBA on the bus back in the day.
Meanwhile I’m from 97 and started with a Gameboy color and Pokémon Red (although admittedly that was around the time Pokémon Ruby for the GBA got released, I just played on hand me downs from a cousin)
That’s a fair assessment. She is the youngest and her asshole siblings would never let her use their game consoles. She didn’t get her own until age 10.
But to be even more fair, I didn’t get my first console (N64) until I was 9. Some kids were lucky enough to have parents willing to buy them expensive electronics at a younger age. Neither of us were that lucky/spoiled.
Weird, I’m only two years older than here and this image fits me perfectly. I had every version of gameboy, a GameCube, n64, I played the SHIT out of oblivion, and my back hurts.
I was born in 96. My first console generation was PSX and GBC, followed by GBA and PS2. I think your gf just wasn’t in to gaming when she was little.
I am about your GF’s age and agree with the other commenters --the meme is spot on. I was just having an Emerald nostalgia trip before I saw this meme. I played Emerald on a DS lite; the generations weren’t that far apart. PS2 was my first console.
Hey that’s me!!
There’s no way I’m older than you. You can’t do this to me!
is that thing in the upper right a slice of cabbage?
Endoplasmic reticulum?
Beyblades!
I thought they were much simpler back then, no?
back then
Oof, ow, ouchie
Idk what they are now, but they were just cool looking spinning tops with sharp pokey bits to topple enemy beyblades, or more likely, to cause bodily harm to your friends, especially the diecast metal ones that had some heft to them
Simpler plastic design I mean. I know that beyblades were always radical-goofy looking, but older ones you could still make out most of the shapes from a distance. Newer ones look like the one in the pic, 5 layers of different whatever just on the upper part. Maybe the plastic ones always looked like that and I’m just that old, ugh
newer ones are way simpler than the one in the pic
I came to the chat wondering what it was too. Look like an endoplasmic reticulum to me, but no idea why that would be there.
It’s a beyblade https://youtu.be/4twNH7WpGVw
i remember when my store manager came to work with her brand new razr phone, thinking all us peons would be like “ooooh aaaah i wish i was you even more now!!!”
I’d like to be asked consent when my picture is posted online.
Had a similar phone, my gameboy was a couple of gens older, and I never played pokemon… But I remember when my friends got their ps2s and I listened to both albums on my commute yesterday… Wtf happened? 2005 was yesterday!
Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin? And who’s the other guy that’s singing in Van Halen? When did reality become TV? Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows (on the radio?)
Really fucked up thing is, that song came out in 2004, and is about a woman remembering 1985, like we’re remembering 2005… It’s already been a year more for us than her.
Time spares no one, friend. Howl in defiance with me for just a few moments more.
warcraft3.exe
GRAB YOUR SWORD, AND FIGHT THE HORDE! UNCLE LOTHAR WANTS YOU!
Needs more of Bungies Halo.
Anybody remember the SHREK KETCHUP lolol
Yeah this was pretty much all the things
Almost got me
Half Life 2 where are yoooouuuuu. And I’m so sooorry.
For extra fun: sing System of a Down in public and see who becomes confused and/or aroused.
PUUUUUUUL THE TAPE WORM OUT OF YOUR ASS!
My alarm used to be Chop Suey.
The hard part was converting then getting the cable to upload AMR files to my phone. Made me feel
Mostly accurate, except maybe the phone. Kids (10yo as shown by the meme) having phones was much less common.
'95 kids may have had these later on as they went into highschool especially when there parents started getting early smartphones and handing down their Razr. But in 2005? Very rare.
I was born in '92. Didn’t get my first phone til I was 14 in 2006. It was a Kyocera Oystr. Then in 2009 I had a Moto RAZR ve20. Most of the kids I knew called it a RAZR 1½. Loved that phone. It had a 3.5mm jack that worked with regular headphones so I put all my music on it and never asked for an iPod. It was sick that it had music controls on the back of the clamshell.
I didn’t get my first smartphone until 2011, and I had to pay for it myself. It was a US Cellular variant of the Moto Photon 4G called the Electrify. It had this sick CRT animation when you locked the screen. Motorola made some kickass smartphones in the day.
Honestly if they’d update their freaking phones in a timely and long-term manner I’d say Moto still makes great phones.
Probably varies a lot based on where you grew up. I got my first phone when I was 9, in 2006, and was among the last in my class to get one. Though phone plans were really cheap by then in Finland, partially due to the largest phone manufacturer (back then) Nokia being Finnish, and our telecom operators being in tight competition. (We’ve three separate carriers with country wide networks, as was the case back in the early 2000’s as well)
I’d say the turning point here was 2003 when Nokia launched the model 1100, which was dirt cheap. I vaguely remember the price eventually falling as low as 19 € in a sale, at which point the phone cost about the same as your typical phone plan per month.
Probably. I was born closer to the millennium and in the US. I don’t remember my peers having phones until at least middle school (11-14 years old)
Teens definitely had them. But elementary school kids no. Not like now for sure. Maybe a few did but (if I recall, obviously I wasn’t paying bills then) US phone plans were quite expensive with many paying PER TEXT SENT. So for the kids that did have them probably couldn’t do much but call, so I never saw them taking them out or anything during class.
It wasn’t uncommon for kids to play around with old PDAs or phones, but no active service so more a camera/shitty games.
Then again maybe I just didn’t go to the higher income schools lmao.
