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i feel like lemmy skews older than the rest of the internet

i also made an anonymous poll because data is cool
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fGestKFfPddlgaPA4zOONy4GGq9DBUXoDfS-cqUsaPE/

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn't understand how a blind man could be reading to me.

Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.

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[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I remember playing games on channel 3

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[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And you're old enough to be online? That doesn't seem correct

(This comment also serves to say how old I am)

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Why? 2024-2001=21. That's definitely old enough to be online

Edit: 23, definitely old enough

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Hey. Shut up.

The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 month ago (16 children)
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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

[–] DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

... And that's the same year I graduated high school...

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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Clearly against the spirit of the law but not the letter. I like your style.

[–] Kaiyoto@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i can't imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar

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[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

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[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (10 children)
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[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.

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[–] thouartfrugal@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

[–] minticecream@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

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[–] cheddar@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm so old I've seen dozens of threads like this one.

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[–] jarvis@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.

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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

i think the answers lies in the lead/microplastics ratio in your body

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.

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[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Badger badger badger badger badger badger Badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom mushroom

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[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

My first computer game was a book with the code in the book that you had to type in.

I participated in FidoNet.

I saw labyrinth in the theaters

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Old enough that I don't follow trends anymore and I just kind of do my own thing.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I used to get AOL demo CDs in the mail.

I grew up with an Amiga.

I had a gateway PC with the cow print box.

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[–] KrapKake@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I cried when my Tamagotchi "pet" died.

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My first coding class was Cobol and we used punch-cards.

(Side story, nothing strikes a feeling of dread more than the sound of cards being shuffled behind you.)

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[–] redeyejedi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The opening scene to Apollo 13 (1995) features a party in Houston with NASA dudes as they gather around the television and Walter Cronkite announces as Neil Armstrong takes his first step on the moon. ( On YouTube )

I was not at that party, but I was at a party in Houston with NASA dudes as we watched the very first moon landing. My dad was a mission control guy with the black horn-rimmed glasses, white shirt and black tie, but Apollo 12, not 11 (Neil Armstrong) or 13 (the one that blew up and barely made it home).

I couldn't walk yet, and I got that the space man on the screen was super important, but at the time I was missing a whole lot of context. The blanks would fill in with time, since the US was super proud of that moment. It's my very first memory.

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[–] meliante@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I was in primary school when my father bought our first computer. A new 286.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

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[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.

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[–] marito@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

My first console was the Atari 2600, my first computer ran on MS-DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch drive, monochrome CRT and no mouse. My intro to Windows was version 3.1.

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[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I am two years older than TCP.

I am quite literally older than the Internet.

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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When I first saw The Lion King in the cinema, my best friend and I couldn't stop crying at the Mufasa scene.

We were probably taken to a colourful McDonalds, to be cheered up, however we did not use the play room as someone was having a birthday there.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

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[–] Miimikko@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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