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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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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

You could only get B&W Tvs at the store.

[–] thevoicesarelouder@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

My first 7" single was Slade-Far far away

[–] Uncle_Abbie@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

I saw this on Tumblr and thought of this thread. 😃

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I knew about Warren Robinnet before Ready Player One

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I owned computers before this, but I remember buying my first PC, a 286, at a flea market for $20 with a coffee can full of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

[–] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 10 months ago

Grif:

It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.

Simmons:

...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago

I remember watching the Berlin Wall coming down on the news. I don't remember the Challenger explosion (edit: though I was alive for it, to be clear). I was out on my own during 9/11, worried as hell about being drafted. Whether or not I am gen-x depends upon which of the dates for its end you choose.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

you are in idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaa

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Men used to wear booty shorts and belly shirts like some women do today; if they bothered with a shirt at all publicly and it was all 100% A OKAY; abs/pecs or not

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago
[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was sixteen days old when the world ended and we were all thrown back into the stone age.

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was alive when the when there were more than 8 elevens.

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[–] nereaders@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I’m old but a young co-worker got me onto Lemmy.

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

When I'd get to kindergarten too early, the teacher let us watch some cable tv. It was usually showing the original xmen cartoon.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

First video card upgrade was a 3dfx voodoo 2

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

First computer only had a teletype, no screen. Oh and paper tape memory.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

My childhood is having Carameldansen be a popular meme, and then having that promptly taken away.

EDIT: I also witnessed the birth and the death of "Vine".

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