This was my childhood

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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.

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...
  
  True, haha. I'm the oldest and my youngest sibling was also born in 1995. She had all the things that 90s kids had, thanks to hand-me-downs. Cassette Walkmans, N64, Windows 95, flip phones with black and white screens + no camera, etc.
- She got started late smh we were all playing GBA on the bus back in the day.
  
  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. But my neighbor who was one year younger than me had a SNES and a PC. I didn't get my own PC until 2004. Until then everyone except my dad had to share the living room computer, and it had the shittiest GPU in the world—GeForce4 MX 4000—which was basically a scam card. But it was good enough to run Driver and Spider-Man (the one based on the first Tobey film), so it was good enough for me. Half-Life 2 was out of the question, though.
  
  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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 94 I started with my cousin's old SNES and a GBC. Good times. The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy still has some of thr best soundtracks ever.

warcraft3.exe
- GRAB YOUR SWORD, AND FIGHT THE HORDE! UNCLE LOTHAR WANTS YOU!

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.
- Born in '95, first phone in 2008. So yeah, a bit early for me as well.
- My siblings shared a phone for a while that was basically to call when we needed to be picked up. I think I was driving before I got my own phone.
- 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.

I'm born 1990 and this pic was my childhood
- Look at this photograph!
  
  Oh God grandpa found the photo book again

Needs more of Bungies Halo.

Zoomers are 97 millennials go all the way to 96
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/

Do people really remember that much before age 10? I have a few core memories but general cultural awareness is pretty lacking and mostly based on hindsight.
- I remember a lot after the age of 7.
  
  I remember mostly tech and playing video games, lol.

" Zoomber"?

is that thing in the upper right a slice of cabbage?
- Beyblades!
  
  I thought they were much simpler back then, no?
- 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
- Endoplasmic reticulum?
- Bayblades babyyyyy

For extra fun: sing System of a Down in public and see who becomes confused and/or aroused.
- 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
- PUUUUUUUL THE TAPE WORM OUT OF YOUR ASS!

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 feel seen/attacked.

Zoomber is the masculine definitive of Zoomba
- https://zombo.com/
  
  the latin spelling

I’m still looking for my GBA-SP! It’s the retro Nintendo version. I want to play Golden Sun without paying for it.
- Hell yeah Golden Sun!

Anybody remember the SHREK KETCHUP lolol

Replace a PlayStation 2 with a early 2000's computer and everything checks out for me.

Nothing quite like gathering a few friends and beating the crap out of each other with those lightsabers
- And having one of those friends who'd often say things like, "I HIT you!" and "You're OUT!"