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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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[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ghostbusters

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You tryin' to rizz my skibiddi up? Aye? In ohio no less.

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[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 4 points 2 months ago

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

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[–] hisao@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

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[–] ashar@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

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[–] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

🎵 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. 🎵

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

AIM away messages and the passive flex of who has the best 'buddyprofile' that may or may not link to a livejournal or xanga page

[–] MECHAGIC@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).

Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was still a kid when my dad brought home a brand new Apple II. Before that computer appeared in his home office (and in my live, as I used that Apple so much more than he ever did ;)), I learned to type on my granddad's typewriter.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

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[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Younger than the iphone 👶

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