I was in high school on 9/11/2001. I remember another teacher ran into my classroom and told my teacher to turn the news on just as first period was ending. The tv was already on in my 2nd period class. I watched both towers fall on live tv. It was… an experience, that’s for sure.

Side note, my physics teacher was in the Navy Reserves and was called into active duty. My physics class was “taught” with varying degrees of success by substitutes for the rest of the semester. That was an interesting class, and for the wrong reasons.

Go Thunderbirds

In the year 2000 I was half the age I am now.

I know what a Boomer is but what’s a Zoomer?

Cell phones were never to be seen on high school property. You’re allowed to have them for emergencies, but you can never whip it out. If a teacher or administrator saw it, it would be taken away until end of the day.

When I started school my year group would use encyclopaedias and the school library to look up information for projects, by the end of primary school (elementary for the yanks) we were using Google in the school computer room.

The information age is my brother

I was 6 years old when Optimus Prime died for our sins.

I told all my friends on AIM to create MySpace accounts and add me when I was 18.

I was there, at Cape Canaveral, in the audience, when Challenger exploded. I had just finished Jr. Space Camp, and decided that if stuff like that was gonna happen while I was around NASA, then maybe I should look for an alternative career path.

You Can’t Do That On Television

Goo goo ga ga

I remember where I was when Reagan was shot.

This was my first console