- We first had an Amiga 500 that had a modified PC floppy drive which didn't detect disk swaps, so I couldn't play The Settlers on it until we got a different one

- Regular family camping trips to a campground near Dresden, the ride there on the Autobahns (A66, A5, A4), shopping in a certain mall in the city

- My first visits to flea markets where I kept annoying those I went there with, because I was really impatient and once I had what I wanted, I wanted to go home

- The internet was more or less non-existent for me until the late 90s, when I first went online with a 14.4k modem using some dialup service (probably Freenet, 01019-01929?), getting my first mail account and checking out NBC GIGA's (RIP) website

- Satellite TV was a fascinating thing, with many foreign channels analog and FTA on the venerable Astra 1A-1D, which only my uncle had

- Cable TV was all analog and had 20-something channels, compared to the nearly 40 analog and countless digital ones today

- Computer and console gaming was so much simpler, without having to update the system's firmware or downloading and installing patches for games - put in the disk or cartridge and off you go

- CPUs could be plugged in the wrong way around, which I learned the hard way when I fried my 100MHz Am486DX4; at least the replacement machine I got was a Cyrix PR-150+ that I then overclocked to PR-166+ level ()

- Also I learned the hard way to never put a TV in a place where it might fall down to the ground below; that took my old TV out of commission for several years until my uncle managed to (partially) fix it


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