@Kitty62862 I became 12 that year...

@Madken65

Two weeks after I was born, the Rolling Stones played their first gig.

@Kitty62862 @Madken65

I'd like to roll around in a puddle of your collective memories! Most of my childhood was in the 90s.

@evistre @Kitty62862

I was in college from '68 to '72, you can't find a better 4 years in American history to be foot loose and fancy free and on a college campus

@Madken65 @evistre

That’s true.

@Madken65 @Kitty62862 badass!

My daddy got kicked out of college in the 80s. More than once. 😎

@evistre @Madken65

My ex & I met in 1984.

Reagan was President.

A gallon of gas or a pack of cigarettes was under $1.

@Kitty62862 @Madken65 did y'all make Orwell references constantly? I would've... ;)

@evistre @Kitty62862

Not really, we knew them, but it really didn't feel this Orwellian then

@Madken65 @Kitty62862 legit.

Reality has really gone sideways. The only consolation is that it's never really been right side up.

Orwell got it creepily right, though...

@evistre @Madken65

Yup.

Way too right.

@evistre @Kitty62862

If you haven't read Orwell's On Truth, you should pick it up...good read

@Madken65 @Kitty62862 i haven't! I've read a few of his other things though. Down and Out in Paris and London was peculiar.

I'll add On Truth to the list!

@evistre @Madken65

Never ending.

Then we laughed it off.

It was then time for Y2K paranoia to bud

@Kitty62862 @Madken65 i LIVED for y2k paranoia! I was on the internet that night, waiting for the apocalypse not to happen.

@evistre @Madken65

The only thing that happened was Blockbuster Video’s computer tried to charge a customer a 100 year late fee 😂

@Kitty62862 @Madken65 it's a testament to the hard work of programmers that nothing big happened, i think. crisis averted!

it was still wild to speculate

@evistre @Madken65

Some of us really believed some government’s computer would start a war.

ABC News had Peter Jennings hosting news updates, from around the world, as Y2K arrived in other time zones.

I miss his class and professionalism.

@Kitty62862 @evistre

Let's see 84, last year I worked as a school psychologist before becoming a school principal the next year...

@evistre @Madken65

I remember Nixon resigning.

My daughter was born in 1993