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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] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

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

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

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

around the Cretaceous period

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Vic-20, Atari 600 XL, zx-81.

In that order

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

Aw dude, four strength four stam leather belt?

AUGHHH

Level 18??

AUGH UGHHH

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i can't imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (16 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't know if I'm a millennial or generation x

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

i think the answers lies in the lead/microplastics ratio in your body

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
  • SP: 2
  • LP: 4
  • SLP: 6

SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.

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

the only things i'm finding for these acronyms are crypto shitcoin listings, and i assume you are at least >5 years old

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

I'll give you a hint.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:

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

I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 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".

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

who took carameldansen away from you?

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

Reddit, and Roblox being run into the ground.

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

I smelled like teen spirit.

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

I tried to make a portal to Aether.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper...).

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

tiny lawnmower

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

Linksys WRT54G WiFi router.

The WiFi router DD-WRT was originally designed for.

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

I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I remember playing games on channel 3

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Old enough to know these posts are a gold mine for personal information gathering.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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

according to some you are currently alive at the same time as Elvis

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

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

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

I remember playing Rollercoaster tycoon on windows 95.

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