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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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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"Alpha! Rita has escaped! Recruit a team of teens with attitude!"

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Ghostbusters

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 5 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

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

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

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[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 4 points 10 months ago

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 4 points 10 months ago

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

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[–] hisao@ani.social 4 points 10 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.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

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[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out

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[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.

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[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 10 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

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

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