Who wants in? We can talk about what is was like to write a letter to your grandma or having no other way to ask someone out other than by calling them on the phone. Or checking out movies at Blockbuster or whatever your national equivalent was (we usually checked out videos at the grocery store, actually).
We’re cool because we can actually remember the USSR and “East” Germany. Although not as cool, I can remember when homophobia and transphobia was so much more widely accepted and the “default” position for most Americans. Not as cool.
These comments give me such joy. So many of us gen X here. I am a late 70s edition.
Anyone else start their gaming on an MSX? I used to be great at Antarctic Adventure.
Who else collected stuff? Stickers, stamps?
Was just thinking I should build a kite and show it to my now adult kid, pretty sure I forgot to even do that while he was a kid.
I so remember how our welfare state did in the 80s, in the cozy armpit of the Soviet Union. The neoliberal era hitting my country is when I started to become radicalized.