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People in the same age group tend to have similar interests and even if two people are complete strangers, they still might share some of the same memories. For example, remembering what TV shows they both liked as kids or what major world events they have witnessed.

These kinds of things can actually give away your age even if you don’t say the number or your birth date. Reddit user teddyjr32378 asked “Without mentioning age or date of birth, how old are you?” and the thread got pretty popular, being upvoted 46.6k times with 45.7k people getting deep into the nostalgia, naming movies, songs or other recognizable things that would let other people guess what age they are.

What is the thing you can say about yourself that would let others pinpoint the year you were born? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to upvote the submissions that you can relate to the most!

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I'm "had to make a mad dash sprint to the cassette player to mash the record button when your favorite song came on the radio" years old.

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Robert T
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Been there done that, but it only means you are somewhere between 40 and 60 years old!

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers MTV actually played music videos.

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ThoughtsAreNotFacts
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They sure did. And they always had "cooler" videos than VH1. Video killed the radio star... then reality shows killed the video!

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#3

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Would you like to accept a collect call from MomWe’reDoneComeGetUs?

Opselite , Abdulla Al Muhairi Report

#4

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Rotary phones were a thing.

Sel_drawme , Billy Brown Report

#5

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I remember physical keys for hotel rooms.

shmallory , Jonathan Haeber Report

#6

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers There was only one newscast at 10pm, and before it started, a booming voice asked, “it’s 10pm. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE????” and after it was over, there was an hour of maybe an infomercial , then a test pattern, and TV was OVER for the night. And there was only 7 channels

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#7

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I saw Disney's "The Lion King" in theaters when it came out.

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Kimmy Ceeahh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw Disney's original Jungle Book in the theater. Cried because I thought Baloo died.

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#8

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Went to computer labs in elementary school to Paint and play pinball.

CaregiverMan , Retro Smack Report

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#9

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Drop dead Fred, Little Monsters, Ghost Busters, The Last Unicorn, & Labyrinth were my favorite movies as a child.

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Autumn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s disturbing as well. I’ve never particularly liked it but it’s gorgeous.

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BookCrazyTeen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my gosh. Hidden childhood memory found. I loved The Last Unicorn. It was the best movie ever. Although the bull scared me.

Sky Render
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 80s had the best movies! I miss the days when special effects were genuinely special...

Bow, I’m a Slytherclaw
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Drop Dead Fred traumatised 8 year old me when I watched it... but it's a great movie

Philly Bob Squires
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was a projectionist in the local movie theaters and got to run all of them as premieres.

thememyselfandi
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had, "I'm too sexy for this shirt. Too sexy for this shirt. So sexy it hurts. I'm a model and you know what that means..." going through my head today. ;-p

Apollo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last unicorn was my favourite film when I was little

Thay
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Drop Dead Fred is frikken underrated as hell! Bring it back haha

Jill
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about The Dark Crystal? I still love that one. Or even The Neverending Story?

Hazel Rhea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember Jellies? Those painful plastic shoes that we just the worst and I was excited to have them.

Hazel Rhea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You and I were born on the exact same day at the exact same time!

Astrid Manthej
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same here. The majority are from the 80s, but still on tv in the 90s. Sadly, the first two movies were only on like two or three times during my childhood. And they were my most favorite. :(

Mazer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last unicorn?? Wasn’t Tom Cruise in that movie??

Cris Serbu
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tom Cruise was in Legend, The Last Unicirn is animated one, based on a book with the same name

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A.J Milne
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What the HELL is Drop dead Fred? It sounds horrendous!

L.j. Bus
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s the name of a girl’s imaginary friend. Of course only the girl can see him. Except he’s real and every ounce of his body is pure mischief lol

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I got in trouble in kindergarten because my tamagotchi kept telling me it was hungry

CatMilkHotel , Katy Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I’ve lived in two millennia’s, two centuries, and four different decades yet people still tell me I can’t call myself old.

fckinfast4 , Chrono Shop Report

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Jayne Kyra
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The calendar picture shows the date I was born. Edit: To be considered young by some made me feel better about the grey hair I have at 32.

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#12

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Old enough to have my first phone be a nokia brick phone/flip phone to now having a smartphone. Ahh simpler times lol

RisingInkwell , Thomas Kohler Report

#14

When I was little, my favorite cartoons was My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, and She-Ra.

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#15

I watched blockbuster close and remember when netflix mailed movies and videogames

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Why buy DVD's, we have everything on videotape.

LightlyStep , Brian Omura Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Grew up watching classic cartoon network shows such as dexter laboratory, courage the cowardly dog, Johnny bravo, the powerpuff girls and my personal favourite Ed, edd and eddy.

ThePaleKnight69 , Cartoon Network Report

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#18

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I’ve had experience with these ways of listening to music: 8 track, vinyl, cassette, CD, and mini disc.

beigereige , James Case Report

#19

Rabbit ears on my television..

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#20

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I remember Baby Jessica and I was afraid something like that might happen to me too.

iwant2saysomething2 , Susan Biddle Report

#21

We actually "dialed" a 7-digit phone number.

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#22

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Until I was in pre-school there were 48 stars on the US flag.

excitom , Joel Report

#23

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I remember Back to the Future in theaters.

Own-Cupcake7586 , Universal Pictures Report

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#25

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I was around when man landed on the Moon.

homevp , NASA Report

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Auntriarch
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother wouldn't let me stay up. But my father was on a course in US at the time, and he came home with a load of fabulous souvenir stuff

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#26

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers When I was a kid the big playground argument was Sega vs Nintendo.

grombleduke , Dru Kelly Report

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers In elementary school, I got to watch the space shuttle Challenger explode on live television.

Edit: the more I think about this and read others' comments, while I was indeed in 2nd grade / 7yrs old, I'm almost positive school was out and I watched this at someone's house with my mother. I know we watched it on CNN and I can see that thin red stripe at the bottom of the screen and that font they used in the 80s in my head and no elementary school would've had access to that channel back then.

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#28

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I had a furrby as a kid

Communist-thelastone , Michael Fraley Report

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Sarcastic Cow
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most dist(f)urbing thing is that the eyes are on front of the head. It implies that Furrby is a predator.

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#29

I wore Dittos and high waisted bell bottom jeans to high school. We had a rotary phone in our house. We didn't wear seat belts in the car until I was older and most cars only had lap belts. There weren't car seats when I was a baby. Wooly Bully was the number one song the year I was born and Flashdance... What A Feeling was the number one song the month and year I graduated high school.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I was the first person in my high school to have a cell phone

clever-asshole , Popsugar Report

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#31

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers The Soviet Union was still called the Soviet Union the year I was born.

TheRavingRaccoon , Gabriel Report

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Kira Okah
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same, was the Soviet Union in preschool, and it was Russia starting primary.

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#32

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I was the only kid in elementary school with a Game Boy

that-1-lame-kid , Bryan Ochalla Report

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Emma Byrne
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was the first kid on my street to get a Gameboy, my brother was making a game for them and got given a free one.

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#33

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I was alive when 9/11 happened but have no memory of it.

EverGreatestxX , Library of Congress Report

#34

I remember the sand bag bumpers at bowling alleys (before they got the automatic ones)

Also drank the polio vaccination; it was a nice pink color back then.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers My parents have never admitted it, but I'm pretty sure I was named after Princess Jasmine from Disney's Aladdin.

Dog-treats , Disney Report

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Daniel Atkins
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah i remember in the mid 90's hearing lots of kids with Disney princess names.

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#36

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers Chicken pox parties

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Kira Okah
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vaccine became available in 1995 I think. Some people before then thought that you can't get it twice (you can, plus shingles) so purposely exposed their kids to it. I got it before the vaccine became available but by accident. Nasty nasty. Vaccine is available now.

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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers I don’t know if I’m a millennial or if I’m gen z

cliberte98 , felice Report

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#39

People were wearing balloon pants my senior year of high school.

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cassiushumanmother
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had to google "ballon pants", we call it a sarouel/serouel from the arabic word in France. We used to wear huge baggy jeans in high school, or very low waist for some girls.

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#40

I remember my mom having a beeper and a cell phone when I was in elementary school

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The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was Disney's "Lady and the Tramp"

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Robert T
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't remember the first film I saw at the cinema, but I really didn't like The Wizard of Oz when it was on television and my parents left me watching it - I came through in tears. LOL

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#42

Too young for the first Iraq War, too old for the second.

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#43

I was conceived when my mom was so overcome by her romantic feelings after seeing Ghost in theaters, starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

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#44

When I was in high school, literally everyone listened to American Idiot and The Black Parade.

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