being older gen z borderline millennial is like. i remember when everyone wanted a blackberry and then the first touchscreen phone came out and it was a Big Deal, and before long owning one was the norm. i remember when movies were all on VHS and then DVDs gradually replaced them (which was met with frustration because VHS players stopped being made and we couldn’t watch our movies anymore without buying them again), and people were renting them from family video until they eventually fell out of use in favor of streaming services. i remember when there were only a couple queer kids at school who were Out and queerness was still heavily discouraged and gay marriage was illegal, and then toward the second half of high school most of my friend group had become openly queer. i remember when the height of school technology was the promethean boards they installed for a short period in middle school and the only access to technology we had was the box computers in the library and school-issued laptops werent a thing, until 8th grade when everyone got one. i remember when tvs were gigantic and the first flat screen tv came out before it was a common household item. i feel like my generation is one on its own, in the short time between 1998 and mid-2003 because we were young enough to witness the transition and old enough to have made core memories in the time before it. and idk. i guess i sorta feel lucky in that sense.