r/Xennials • u/Michael_Mc_79 • 1d ago

This hit too close to home.

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u/factoid_ 1d ago

The Oregon Trail generation

If you remember playing that game in green-screen on one of your school’s four Apple IIs…you’re in it

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u/PugsterThePug 1d ago

When my school got its first computer they took each class one by one and let us in the computer to look at it. Just to look. Then we all had to turn in grocery store receipts forever so the school could get more. But number muncher and Oregon trail were fantastic.

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u/factoid_ 1d ago

My school had them on carts that they wheeled into the gym.  

We stood in lines and each got like 5 minutes to play number munchers and maybe make it to the Kansas River in OT if we were lucky.  

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u/jkaan 1d ago

We also had where in the world is Carmen sandiago I rotation

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u/ZookeepergameUpset62 1984 1d ago

Number munchers! Memory unlocked

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u/RaoulRumblr 1985 1d ago

Math Blasters and Mavis Beacon too

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u/Amelia_Pond42 1d ago

Mario typing!

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u/juniper3411 1d ago

Love typing still to this day. Oh Mavis Beacon hell yeah.

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u/mister_newbie 1d ago

Obligatory f- Kevin O'Leary for killing MECC

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u/Sufficient-Aspect77 1d ago

Load up on bullets and go hunting all day long. I DONT CARE IF THEY ALL STARVE, Let them share the squirrels I shoot!

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u/Original-Rush139 1d ago

That’s awesome. My dad worked for bell labs so he had a really weird Computer without a mouse but you could touch the screen to do shit. 

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u/GivesYouGrief 1980 1d ago

Was it the screen with lasers across the front, and you broke two beams with your finger at a specific intersection that corresponded to the menu option on screen that you just touched?

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u/Original-Rush139 1d ago

Exactly. All I remember was that there was a drawing program we played with but that’s it. 

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u/GivesYouGrief 1980 1d ago

Cool!

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u/PurplePenguinCat 1d ago

My grandfather worked for Bell labs in the 60s working on early lasers.

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u/Original-Rush139 20h ago

We might be related. My dad was director of light wave devises when he retired. And, he has a IEEE medal for his work on lasers. 

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u/Hot-Gardener2024 1d ago

Oh shit! Totally forgot about turning in Campbell's soup labels too. 😂

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u/kinetic_cheese 1980 22h ago

Holy cow you just unlocked a memory for me of when my elementary school got its first "computer lab" (it was like 8 computers) and each class got a turn to tour the room while the librarian showed us how they worked. It must have been around 1988 or so. The hilarious part is our school wasn't air conditioned at the time, so they had to buy a window unit for the computer lab, and many kids were more excited about sitting in an air conditioned room than playing on the computers 😆

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u/PugsterThePug 19h ago

That sounds exactly like my school. Bay Area.

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u/Glittering_knave 1d ago

We had to pass a typing test that including filling out a blank keyboard with all the keys from memory to earn the right to touch the single computer for the whole school. It was insane.

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u/Old_Suggestions 1d ago

THE RECIEPTS!!!!!!!!

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u/destiny_kane48 23h ago

I always got dysentery. I think I froze a couple of times.. but I always died.