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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not really a zoomer but I'm also not really a millennial. (and definitely not any other generation)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My first game console was an Atari 2600

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm "I Want to Hold Your Hand" old.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was born the year that the first version of Google was also born.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

First manned space flight.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm the same age as DOOM

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was born in the year when John Lennon died.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Born a few months after the first moon landing. Birthday is next week.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Daym we must be of similar age then

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Analog childhood, digital adulthood

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Shut uuuuuuppp, you can't read let alone write yet!!!

And that's how old I am

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I can't remember 9/11 and I'm almost 30 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I put you 6 months up or down from Iliza Shlesinger TOPS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?

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