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Mine, here, yesterday.

2008: Time passes strangely and with much mistiness.

I believe the internet access I was using was AOL CD-ROM loaded ADSL dial-up, although that may have been earlier.
I remember how I found my way here; making a post on Facebook asking for places to play chess online and RHP was suggested.
Facebook was 4 years old and I’d had a profile there for 1 year. I think I was still using Friends Reunited also. I also had a MySpace page full of fascinating stuff none of which I can remember.
Nintendo Wii Sports was rocking the gaming and the wife and I played the bowling a lot. I got beaten a lot. At the game.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks was still on TV in the UK

Anecdote: a few months later in 2008 I posted a link to a slightly spicy GIF in the General Forum, panicked when I realised it was probably in breach of the forum guidelines, couldn’t figure out how to delete it so reported myself to the forum mod and got a week forum ban. Those were tough days back then in the forums and it was kicking off every day for one reason or another.

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I don't remember my 18th birthday.

(True story.)

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I only remember one event on a birthday, and I've had 81 of them. The one was my 59th, and it was a cancer diagnosis.

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I remember my 18th...it has only been 40 years in March 😉

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I have no recollection of any birthday before my 40th.

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@Torunn said
I have no recollection of any birthday before my 40th.
A good memeroy is also a problematic thing, while being able to forget is a blessing. ( as my wife says)

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@diver
I hope it was me who banned you...

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@diver said
Mine, here, yesterday.

2008: Time passes strangely and with much mistiness.

I believe the internet access I was using was AOL CD-ROM loaded ADSL dial-up, although that may have been earlier.
I remember how I found my way here; making a post on Facebook asking for places to play chess online and RHP was suggested.
Facebook was 4 years old and I’d had a profile there ...[text shortened]... were tough days back then in the forums and it was kicking off every day for one reason or another.
I remember a few birthdays, but only what happened and who was there, not what number it was.

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@Suzianne said
I don't remember my 18th birthday.

(True story.)
I also don't remember your 18th birthday.

(True story).

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@diver
I celebrated my 18 Birthday in the same pub i had celebrated the previous 3.
True Story

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@diver said
Nintendo Wii Sports was rocking the gaming and the wife and I played the bowling a lot. I got beaten a lot. At the game.
Wow, Wii Sports.

Not into Nintendo, or even PlayStation. Always been an Xbox girl.

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@Chuck-2 said
@diver
I celebrated my 18 Birthday in the same pub i had celebrated the previous 3.
True Story
What's drinking age there, five?

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@Suzianne said
What's drinking age there, five?
my dad used to give us kids egg nogg every morning in winter,egg mixed with port or brandy depending on what he had left,18 was the legal age for pub drinking but I was a big lad for my age,6 ft 1 at 14 so on my 15th birthday I went to the pub with my dad......happy days

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
I also don't remember your 18th birthday.

(True story).
This is the part where the little girl hits her big brother in the arm, yeah?

I promise I won't hurt you. 🙂