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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jun 2019
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    What year does “history” start for you, before which you feel like a pure spectator/documentary watcher/book reader? I think 1982 for me. Events after 1982 have a live salience and are open to rewrites in long-term personal memory for me

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      2. Science Banana‏ @literalbanana 8 Jun 2019
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        we didn't have tv until around 1984 so probably then

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jun 2019
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        Heh me too (1985 for TV). Non-history memories begin a couple of years before though, with newspapers. 1982 Asian games mascot, Apu the elephant, is first memory of public events.

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      1. jonni‏ @jonni 8 Jun 2019
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        I have a vivid memory of sitting in my bedroom in 1988, aged 7, and suddenly realising “I am self aware”. It was such a surprising and mystical experience at the time, I deliberately etched the year it happened into my memory for future reference. So then I guess.

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      1. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 8 Jun 2019
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        From a public infrastructure pov, it's the before / after New Deal.https://livingnewdeal.org/what-was-the-new-deal/timeline/ …

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      1. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞  ⚔ HOLD FAST‏ @Face_Almighty44 8 Jun 2019
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        9-11-2001

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      1. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 8 Jun 2019
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        Events of 1989-1990 in USSR and Eastern Europe. In second grade we did current events each week. I remember the photos of Berlin Wall coming down; first McDonald’s in USSR (Jan 31, ‘90) Later that year a guest speaker brought a piece of Berlin Wall to our class.

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      1. I'm still here.‏ @gdtrble 8 Jun 2019
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        Kent state...watergate...

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jun 2019
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        🤔 you don’t look that old

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 8 Jun 2019
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        Probably the French Revolution. It roughly coincides with when architectural history starts to become more compelling to me.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jun 2019
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        Hmm that sounds more like interest starting rather than a sense of “real”? Like do you feel a personal visceral sense of continuity of personal memory stretching back to then?

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