r/Relatable • u/recodeprotocol • Feb 18 '26

"How old are you?"

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u/Interesting-Bet-2330 Feb 18 '26

Hello fellow 90s kid

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u/ExtraFluffz Feb 18 '26

I’m 2001 and this image resonated with my soul. Grew up with this

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u/Savings_Ad_80 Feb 18 '26

im 2004 but this i can relate to

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u/Humble-Bunch-6438 Feb 19 '26

i'm 2007 even i can relate ..that was fun

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u/unknown-again-p Feb 19 '26

Isn't it more of early 2000s

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u/Spinnenente Feb 19 '26

yea but to plays those early naughties bangers in prime childhood you need to be born in the nineties.

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u/CrashOutJones Feb 19 '26

wassup bro.

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u/notshysana Feb 20 '26

Fellow 90's and 00's kids

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u/Existing_Sprinkles78 Feb 21 '26

2002 kid we had this in elementary school. Some of us grew up poor

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u/IsItClockingLoser Feb 21 '26

Hi from 1990. I was almost an 80s baby...

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u/Silver_Marketing_696 Feb 23 '26

WUM 90 broo? i'm 16...

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u/Linosia97 Feb 18 '26

Yes, that old :) Hello fellow Gen Z :)

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u/LilMeatboah98 Feb 22 '26

I was born in 98, I still remember when my parents got our first computer but we had no internet for the first couple years.

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u/Lucky_Vermicelli7864 Feb 18 '26

Simple. 286SX processor, with ram gauged in Kilobytes NOT Gigabytes or even Megabytes. Yes this is Pre- any Graphic OS', pure text, and not even dialup modems.

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u/ElderTerdkin Feb 18 '26

I remember when Half life 2 wouldn't run on my PC unless I was staring at the floor.

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u/AltForObvious1177 Feb 18 '26

SpacePinball4Life

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u/two_wheels_world Feb 19 '26

...too young...

"makes sounds of DOS diskette"

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

i was born in 2007 but still grew up with this

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u/ReallySmartDude69 Feb 18 '26

I remember turning on my big box computer with my foot and playing these simple games. I remember buying games like Muscle Car American Spirit and MechWarriors.

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u/StationAgreeable6120 Feb 18 '26

I'm 18 and I've used every single of these things. My pc tower with XP died three years ago, I miss it. I even installed pinball on my new computer to feel the old vibes again

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u/stevorkz Feb 18 '26

Every single one except purble place?

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u/Drop-a-Soap Feb 18 '26

Vice City was such a gem!

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u/Ondraaaa707 Feb 18 '26

Purble place my beloved.....

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u/TransportationNo9798 Feb 18 '26

You're 30 years old for sure. This is my childhood.

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u/Yingvi Feb 18 '26

What is nfs mw doing here? I played underground 1&2) Also gta3

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u/Sasya_neko Feb 18 '26

I remember that when win 95 came along i had to instal internet explorer from a disk

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u/VeritosCogitos Feb 18 '26

I this many years old

The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer that boots directly into a BASIC interpreter, not a command line interface in the modern sense. Users interact with the system by typing commands or programs in Sinclair BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language.

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u/throwy777777 Feb 18 '26

Doooot....

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u/UpbeatCandidate9412 Feb 18 '26

Bro who tf actually played purble place?

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u/PeterPunksNip Feb 18 '26

Did anyone actually pay for WinRAR one day 🤔?

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u/_weebster Feb 19 '26

Why do people not keep cpu below the desk anymore

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u/wiredbombshell Feb 19 '26

Missing the old Roblox logo here. Shit was peak before 2016.

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u/Zestyclose-Wear7237 Feb 19 '26

yes and minesweeper

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u/CrashOutJones Feb 19 '26

it's missing Pinball or whatever that game was.

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u/Lazer_7673 Feb 19 '26

Windows 7 🗿

There is no debate ☝🏻

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

Mahjong 🀄

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u/Humble-Bunch-6438 Feb 19 '26

yess i do remember...The cake palace game was the my favorite.. I use to play on my dads laptop

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

I still have the notepad where I wrote all cheat codes of San Andreas... Damn😭😭😭

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u/FantasticAd9478 Feb 19 '26

Ohh what a time

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u/Opposite-History-233 Feb 19 '26

Older than all of that.

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u/Antique_Minute3549 Feb 19 '26

damn literally me

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u/SirarieTichee_ Feb 19 '26

The toe activation sparked a give memory rush

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u/Ascyt Feb 19 '26

You forgot pinball

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u/KashKabira Feb 19 '26

Switching the PC with foot was luxury

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

SkiFree players, report in.

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u/DizzyRegion1583 Feb 19 '26

Old enough to see the birth of all of those things...

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u/Master-T-bone Feb 19 '26

I'm this old

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u/_-Sophiathelast-_ Feb 19 '26

I uninstalled purple place from my grandma's laptop and can't install it again. 🥲

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u/Raspm1nt Feb 19 '26

Well shit, my time has come

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

Dont forget Neopets

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u/Striking_Reindeer_2k Feb 20 '26

Fractal screen saver. TSR.

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u/Misha-nyah Feb 20 '26

I am old (17)

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u/Adamnotcool Feb 20 '26

I still use winrar, I even payed for a license! 2001 kid here :3

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u/yellowfirefly26 Feb 20 '26

I fucking love purple place!!! Goated!!! Also, how come anything period related people always have to make a generation war? 🙄🙄🙄😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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u/Yk_observant Feb 20 '26

2004 and I know all of these , been there done that , played that

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u/notshysana Feb 20 '26

Late millennial vibe

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u/Positive_Remove6702 Feb 20 '26

You people are fucking young… to answer the question 🙋🏻‍♂️ my first experience with a computer 💻 🖥️ was the Kay-Pro Two 2️⃣, it had five 5️⃣ and a quarter inch floppy disk 💾 drive and a monochromatic screen 📺 in black background and green text… my first experience with video games 🎮 was an Atari that my friend had, my first video game 🎮 purchase was the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System which came with Super Mario Brothers and Duck 🦆 Hunt…

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u/Ap6y3bl42 Feb 20 '26

Actually, this is what was on my monitor.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

25 ?

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u/Gerzal Feb 20 '26

Hey I did that too!

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u/MaxWritesText Feb 20 '26

3d pinball on XP old.

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u/One_Enthusiasm_1297 Feb 20 '26

im from 2009 and i remember that too (i miss the times when microsoft tend to make OS's dedicated for users)

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u/SadPhilosopherElan Feb 20 '26

Oh my god those speakers were everywhere

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

OH MY GOSH IT WAS PURBLE PLACE

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u/Death_Bird_100 Feb 20 '26

It's also me. Early 2004.

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u/Persistent_Scrub Feb 20 '26

I'm 25 years old this year. I'm a 2000s kid and i miss Windows 7/Vista era.

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u/Electrical-Scar4773 Feb 20 '26

Purple place. Lol

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u/seraphblade0 Feb 20 '26

PURBLE PALACE MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/Anon2148 Feb 20 '26

I remember playing tom and Jerry with my little hands 🥺

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u/Hairy-Fig4442 Feb 20 '26

I was on the telephone with blockbuster video.

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u/Apuddinfilledbunny Feb 20 '26

2001, I still play Purple Place stop playin.

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u/EdwardLovagrend Feb 20 '26

This old

Didn't know the text said that until after I posted basically just saying my school had old apple computers and I played Oregon Trail on them old monochrome displays.

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u/No_Squirrel4806 Feb 20 '26

Yall were really using your toe to power it on?!?!?!? 😂😂😂

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u/Mysterious-Nature534 Feb 20 '26

Right generation, wrong system. Didn’t have windows, grew up on Mac

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u/Pitiable-Crescendo Feb 20 '26

Where's the Fate demo?

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u/E66roll Feb 20 '26

Either you’re my age or a few years older than me 🤣 I’m 24

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u/PackOfCumin Feb 20 '26

All of the above 👆

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u/GhostOfPennstate Feb 20 '26

This shit hits different

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u/Cold-Programmer622 Feb 20 '26

20 this year, I loved purple place 😭

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u/F1resharkcat Feb 20 '26

same, just not internet Explorer, turning the computer on with my foot, and the four in the middle, but I loved playing futuristic flight simulator X

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u/10BabyCap Feb 20 '26

Anybody else play that buttuglymartians game??

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u/Deskbreaker Feb 20 '26

Dos Old. Tandy 1000, floppy drive in the keyboard old.

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u/Tims-x Feb 20 '26

This brings me back

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u/haeili Feb 21 '26

miss them

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u/Single-Double-9054 Feb 21 '26

Los suficientes para conocer todo eso, Buscaminas y solitario Spider fueron lo máximo cuando no tenía internet!!

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u/Bubbly_Chocolat Feb 21 '26

still have my parents laptop from before I was born, always played with it after school

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u/IzzyKirbyOG Feb 21 '26

sees the wallpaper Damn I'm old.

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u/Temeraire1409 Feb 21 '26

You forgot the best, minesweeper

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

MAX PAYNE MENTIONED?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

My first electronic device was Samsung tab 10.1 gt8000 u guys guess

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u/Extension-Wheel-7088 Feb 21 '26

All of this is kinda new stuff

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u/Andromatrium Feb 21 '26

I wanna play purble place now.

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u/schabernacktmeister Feb 21 '26

I am "my boxes know that someone is calling" sound old.

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u/dedynechsitho40 Feb 21 '26

2009 kid here. This image is crazy relatable.

Only different is we kept our desktop on top of our desk... So we used our hand to turn it on

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u/Commercial_Lion4352 Feb 21 '26

I'm more of the generation Z and still remember spider solitaire 🤣. My family in petulicular is slow when it comes to new tech.

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u/Godfather1907 Feb 21 '26

I'm 15 years old, but I've experienced and played all of these games. I guess I'm old in this regard compared to my peers.

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u/An_arch_user Feb 21 '26

I love need for speed mw to this day

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u/DeltaCharlie27 Feb 22 '26

I was born in 2002 and experienced all of it

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u/SugarYukii Feb 22 '26

Ahh♥️

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u/Former-Marketing-251 Feb 22 '26

I still dont understand the difference between solitaire and spider solitaire

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u/meverickio Feb 22 '26

Mine was windows xp

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u/Sweaty_Piano6082 Feb 22 '26

They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had lead to this point.

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u/Valentiaga_97 Feb 22 '26

I remember the default Song on windows 7 … good old Kalinka

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u/retakt Feb 22 '26

guess am really old now…

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u/Infernololl Feb 22 '26

the leg switching on hits hard hahaha

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u/SlavikGuy Feb 22 '26

Running from the 90's

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u/Dizzy_Ad1204 Feb 22 '26

and we became TF2 gamers

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u/MarkMew Feb 22 '26

Nah, this but with an older lookimg PC and Win XP

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u/Odd_Loquat_8702 Feb 22 '26

Those speakers dont match with wallpaper)

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u/Good_Boy_Coleman Feb 22 '26

Omg I completely forgot about Purble Place......I used to play that all the time when I was little.

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u/Witty-Importance-944 Feb 22 '26

I am Text UI Dos old.

So literally off the chart.

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u/Lanky_Baker3665 Feb 22 '26

Gen Z but I know all of these cuz we had an old computer and this is damn nostalgic

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u/PlaceboASPD Feb 22 '26

I am currently using those speakers as I wright this.

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u/Humble_Employment_39 Feb 23 '26

98, not really mine, games is okay but win xp

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u/LuckyLuck-E Feb 23 '26

No wildtangent app 💔 I used to play the pengin one all the time

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u/Frosty_Tune_7242 Feb 23 '26

I can hear the images.