4mo ago

without saying how old you are, how old are you?

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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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.
- 5.25"
  
  8"
  Jealous?
- 36?
  
  That's a damn good guess!

I remember playing games on channel 3
- Did you have the little switch screwed into the back of your set to go from "TV" to "GAME" ?
  also, I came here to post "Atari 2600" but I'll leave it in this comment instead :P
  
  I had a small switch on the back of the adapter that chose between channel 3 or channel 4

to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes
- And you're old enough to be online? That doesn't seem correct
  (This comment also serves to say how old I am)
  
  Why? 2024-2001=21. That's definitely old enough to be online
  Edit: 23, definitely old enough
- 9/11 is dad's birthday.
  
  9/11 is 0.81 repeating

Gmail BETA
- Gmail account is firstname.lastname and neither of them are rare.
  Even though I don't use Gmail anymore I keep that account alive.
  
  Fun tip, dots in a Gmail address are ignored, so you can also use firstnamelastname, first.name.lastna.me, or any other combo to receive mail at
  
  I had 5-6 letter Gmail accounts
- With 1gb of storage and no ads.
  
  And that was like multiple times the previous limits IIRC
- I still have [religious figure]@gmail.com
  The account is completely overrun with spam. And there are about 20 people who seem to think it is their actual email address and I get like legit power bills and stuff on it.
  
  I essentially had godXXX but my friend got offended so I changed the password to something random and stopped using it
- For me, gmail beta in college. Also my first gmail account got banned for sending myself too many invites to make more accounts… to make GameFAQs accounts. >___>
  
  … how many accounts did you make? I made a new one every six months or so back then

I was born in 1983
- Clearly against the spirit of the law but not the letter. I like your style.

My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.
- ... And that's the same year I graduated high school...

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.
- i can't imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar
  
  I think you just write it in with pencil? So you can rub it out after you've turned to the right page.
- Are those like wikipedias but circular?

I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.
- I grew up with the Star Wars trilogy on VHS box set and phantom menace was one of my first movies in a theatre.

Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.
- I was going to say this.
  Instead I’ll say: 48k ZX tape noises and Ace of Aces. Betamax. Not answering the phone as we’re having dinner.
  And manic miner! Damn that game was brutal.

I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.
- I was old enough to be disappointed watching it on our neighbors' TV, because it was so far behind the science fiction stories I'd been reading when I ran out of library books and moved on to my big brother's.
- Me too. Well said!

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

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.
- I wrote custom software to manage my different versions based on which software I needed.

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.
- Technically, you're younger than your tongue.
  Because your age is counted from birth but your tongue was formed before you were born.
  
  By that logic, you're younger than your body and even your mind.

Pogs

LOAD “*”,8,1

I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.
- Yes, it slowed down the processor frequency for games that would otherwise run too fast.
  
  Bless Turbo Button-kun for making Gabriel Knight playable
  
  Sometimes. It was also frequently not connected to anything.

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

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

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x
- i think the answers lies in the lead/microplastics ratio in your body
- "Oregon Trail" generation
- Xennial

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

Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.
- Your profile says NotANaziIWasJustBornIn1988.
  
  Glad to here it's working. Obfuscation is the only anonymity online
- Lenny is completely firewalled. No email address, different country instance, honeypot false personal information...
- Ah, a fellow 13 year-old.

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

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

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.

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.)

I cried when my Tamagotchi "pet" died.

I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.
- I did too, but it was a famicon because I was living overseas.

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

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.

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

Chernobyl may have had an impact on my fetal development.

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.

I am two years older than TCP.
I am quite literally older than the Internet.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:
- One of them has a more powerful, focused beam.

I don't remember 9/11

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).
- What is it?
  
  Linksys WRT54G WiFi router.
  The WiFi router DD-WRT was originally designed for.
  
  tiny lawnmower

The Oregon Trail.

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.

I saw AC/DC's second London gig in a pub

I bought music on cassette and again on CD, but never on 8-track.

I had "The Box" which gave us cable TV channels we weren't supposed to have.

My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

Go go Power Rangers!
- 🎸🎸🎸🎸 🎸🎸🎸🎸
  GO GO POWER RANGERS, YOU MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS!
  🥁🎸 🥁🥁🎸 🥁🥁🎸 🥁🥁🎸🥁🥁🎸🥁🥁🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
- But if you really want a reference, you know it gets real when Domo-kun attacks the city's abandoned warehouse district.

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.

The first CD, in fact the first piece of music, I ever bought was Green Day Dookie.

8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.

One time when I was 10 my teacher rolled in a TV and made us watch some building fall over on the news. I thought it was boring and wanted to go back to learning stuff. But then afterwards all the grown-ups, and I mean like, all the grown-ups got really really angry and weird, like I would say things like that I don't want to knock over other people's buildings and they said that meant I was a terrorist.

Classic movies are in black an white.

I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.

I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.
I also know what a VCR is.

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