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What's this millenial shit doing in a Gen X thread? Fuck off to your own thread with your technologically advanced gew-gaws!!

Hey now, as a late-stage GenXer (or "Xennial") I have to stand up for my cohort. We had a lot of this stuff.
 
What's this millenial shit doing in a Gen X thread? Fuck off to your own thread with your technologically advanced gew-gaws!!
What are you talking about? The oldest Millennials around in 1983 would have been infants. I'm a Gen-Xer right down to the latchkey creds and I cut my teeth on the 8-bit computers of the early 80s. I would have loved to go to a camp like that. At 12 in 1983, I would have been the right age and I had already been writing my own games in BASIC for almost three years at that point.
 
By 12(83) half my friends were commiting phone and credit card fraud on a daily to weekly basis. We would have loved that camp.
 
By 12(83) half my friends were commiting phone and credit card fraud on a daily to weekly basis. We would have loved that camp.
Ahh, fond memories of plain-suited cops coming by to ask me where one of my best friends was. Can't remember if that was before or after the FBI raided some mutual's home and our computer teacher came to class semi-coherent after dealing with the national media all morning. #Early80sIrvine
 
In 1983 I would have been 8-9 years old. Attending Atari camp would have been about as likely as hitching a ride on the Space Shuttle in a household where things like paper towels and aspirin were considered luxuries.
 
What are you talking about? The oldest Millennials around in 1983 would have been infants. I'm a Gen-Xer right down to the latchkey creds and I cut my teeth on the 8-bit computers of the early 80s. I would have loved to go to a camp like that. At 12 in 1983, I would have been the right age and I had already been writing my own games in BASIC for almost three years at that point.
Now now, some of them would have been walking, talking, and even eating solid food!
 
What are you talking about? The oldest Millennials around in 1983 would have been infants. I'm a Gen-Xer right down to the latchkey creds and I cut my teeth on the 8-bit computers of the early 80s. I would have loved to go to a camp like that. At 12 in 1983, I would have been the right age and I had already been writing my own games in BASIC for almost three years at that point.
Wasn't talking about the camp. Was talking about the translucent consoles and laptops.
 
Wasn't talking about the camp. Was talking about the translucent consoles and laptops.
Oh, that post was a while ago. You came in right after the camp post. No matter... Still, plenty of Gen-Xers were buying the trashy-looking translucent stuff; for millennials in a lot of cases but Gen-X was definitely consuming the schlock. Or shall I remind you that the whole clear craze started in the 80s?
 
The clear Swatch Watches came out in 85, that's where I suspect the clear craze started.
I suspect a lot of people have blocked out the whole early part of the clear craze and only remember the 90s when things really took off.

I should also mention Mr. Machine and those transparent flashlights I remember from the 1970s, but I'm not sure we can count things like that as part of the clear craze.
 
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Was that something that existed or is this a mock-up of some sort?
I'm pretty sure it was a thing. It was posted on FB by Vault of Retro Sci-Fi and they generally post real stuff, not mock ups.

Edit: A little googling makes me think it might be a mock up. Shrug.
 
I suspect a lot of people have blocked out the whole early part of the clear craze and only remember the 90s when things really took off.

I should also mention Mr. Machine and those transparent flashlights I remember from the 1970s, but I'm not sure we can count things like that as part of the clear craze.
My emerson stereo combo was silver and wood grain vinyl tape.
 
1983 I was 12, in the right age when this camp was advertised, and I am very very very definitely Gen X.

But Stumpydave Stumpydave was linking to this pic not the Atari camp:

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Which although we may have owned it, it ain't GenX tech as it comes after 1980ish, much in the mid and late-90s and early 00s.
 
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Thanks for correcting me. Yes, those are all definitely not Gen X

No worries! I think a few people thought the same as you too. Perhaps a glitch made it look like Dave was quoting the Atari camp pic.
 
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