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Was half of my life ago. I was a freshly boot camp graduated Marine on recruiters assistance on an epic streak of random tail. I'm now a 36 year-old, married, homeowner, with two kids.

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1 hour ago, Wayne Cubed said:

Search engines available in 1999:

  • Excite 
  • Yahoo! 
  • WebCrawler 
  • Lycos 
  • Infoseek  
  • AltaVista
  • Inktomi 
  • Ask Jeeves (now Ask)

Ah, yes...AltaVista.  That was my favorite for awhile.  

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1 minute ago, KW95 said:

I watched my friend bend over and do the unthinkable.

 

That is disconcerting......

 

Not that it can’t end well....

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I'd never met my wife.

I was still an undergraduate.

I had no kids.

I still technically lived with my parents.

My grandfather was still alive.

I drove a maroon 1989 Pontiac Grand Am.

My sister was still in high school.

NONE of the students I've taught in the last 5 years had been born yet.

Jack Eichel was 3 years old.

You could still send a telegram.

Nobody knew what a hanging chad was.

Nobody knew who Osama bin Laden was.

Renting videos was still a thing.

HDTV was brand new.

 

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38 minutes ago, FLXbillsmafia said:

The Patriots had ZERO super bowl wins

The Colts were in the AFC East

The Houston Texans did not exist

9/11 hadn't happened – TSA did not exist

No Twitter, Facebook, Uber

No Xbox, let alone 360 or Xbox One; also no iPod

Buffalo was the 59th most populous city in the US (now 81st)

 

 

 

Someone gets it at least. 

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I had been working for the same company for 31 years, looking forward to retirement.  Then 9-11 happened in 2001, the company went CH-11 in 2002, I "retired" in 2003, and we lost a big piece of our pension in 2004 because the "bankrupt" company couldn't pay us what we earned and were promised.

 

The old bankrupt company "emerged" from bankruptcy, and are doing quite well now.  The retirees are another story!
 

The good news is that I found a new job in 2004, and retired from that in 2016, with a small, but very much appreciated pension, and now the BILLS are in the playoffs! .

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34 minutes ago, papazoid said:

there were 9 planets

 

Recently formed....

5 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said:

I had been working for the same company for 31 years, looking forward to retirement.  Then 9-11 happened in 2001, the company went CH-11 in 2002, I "retired" in 2003, and we lost a big piece of our pension in 2004 because the "bankrupt" company couldn't pay us what we earned and were promised.

 

The old bankrupt company "emerged" from bankruptcy, and are doing quite well now.  The retirees are another story!
 

The good news is that I found a new job in 2004, and retired from that in 2016, with a small, but very much appreciated pension, and now the BILLS are in the playoffs! .

 

Sorry for the rough patch. I know we felt that as well. Glad things seem to have worked out. Bills will play in JANUARY!  I like the new regime and feel that given time we can be seriously relevant, not just squeak in. 

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My daughter was six months old. Now she’s a freshman coxswain at William Smith. She hates football, but that’s okay. 

 

My son, who bleeds Bills colors, was still three years away from being born. He’s a freshman in high school and I am so frickin’ happy for him because the Bills are in the playoffs. 

 

My wife and I had been married for a year and a half.  We will celebrate our 20th anniversary in August. 

 

I was a year and a half out of law school and still in my first post-law school job.  I’m on my fifth now, and this one finally took... i’ve been there seven years and will probably retire from it.  

 

I had just turned 30 seven months earlier.  In five months or so, I’ll be a year away from the big 5-0. 

 

A lot of water under that bridge.  Was it worth it?  Every second. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

•  People still had home phones
•  Cloud? What cloud? You saved stuff on a floppy... IF you had a computer!

 

Most people had a computer

Everybody had a home phone.  Some had two lines.  One for voice and one for dialup internet

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