Northern Echos Blog
Posted on
Thought Snippits

I was part of...

Author
I was part of...
  • The 70's (just the very last bit)
  • Growing up in the 1980's + 1990's
  • Being Canadian and American
  • Living in Canada for 30 years
  • Going to Catholic school
  • Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts
  • Changes due to discovery of Ozone Hole 1987
  • Using first 'blue box' recycling 1987
  • Watching the Berlin Wall fall on TV in 1989
  • Watching the Persian Gulf War on TV 1990-1991
  • Being a "Walkman" user
  • Being a kid with divorced parents
  • Nomination of the first female Prime Minister of Canada in 1993
  • Shortwave radio users and enthusiasts
  • The 'connected' world before the Internet
  • The world before the Internet
  • Creating Web and Internet content since 1995
  • Transition of tape to Compact Disc (CD)
  • Normality of highschool kids smoking cigarettes
  • Playing video games in arcades
  • Quebec referendum of 1995
  • North American Ice Storm of 1998
  • World before Google
  • Building custom computers for retail sale 1999-2009
  • Helping people through "Y2K"
  • Dot com bubble 2000-2001
  • Silicon Valley North
  • Watching 9-11 unfold (2001)
  • Watching the end of the space shuttle program
  • Putting Oldsmobile history online
  • Seeing China in 2009 after the 2008 Summer Olympics
  • Nomination of the first black President in the USA 2009
  • Living with gluten and dairy allergies
  • Being someone with cancer
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
  • George Floyd 2020
  • Curfews put in place due to the related riots
  • Investing in, and trading 'crypto'
  • Renee Good and Alex Pretti deaths in the state where I lived
  • Parenting Gen Alpha