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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Snaaaake! A snaaaaaaaake! Ooooooohhhh it’s a snaaaaaaaaaake!
When we were kids the telephone man gave us the secret code you could use to make the phone booth phones call themselves to test the ringer. Loads of fun. I used to wake up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons. I know how to use the yellow pages, and I used to be the kid who would help you plug in and program all the old people’s tv and vcr and cable boxes. Most of the neighborhood kids had to be on by the time that one streetlight came on at dusk, but I was allowed to stay out later but usually went home too because it was boring after everyone else went home. We used to play tag football in the middle of the street and I was the wide receiver because I was the third or fourth oldest and the oldest two were always the quarterbacks. We used to all hang out at little jimmys house who was 8 or 10 years old because he had Mike Tyson’s punch out on NES. If one of our parents needed cigarettes we could walk up to buy them as long as we had a note from our mom.
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.
I was born in 1978
Technically correct. The best kind of correct.
I remember playing games on channel 3
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
TVs have a UHF switch so I can finally watch more channels. I really hate putting tinfoil on the rabbit ears and opening the window to sometimes get these new channels though, but they work better if I hold onto the antenna. It’s hard to see what I’m watching if I do this, but at least I can mostly hear what they’re saying, and the picture is dark anyway, so even if I could see at this angle, it would be too dark and snowy.
I was using 5,25″ discs.
I am younger than Woodstock and “The Summer of Love” but older than Disco.
I feel like that is a broad sounding date range that is actually pretty specific, and puts your 55th birthday some time in the next 5 months.
Actually my 54th Birthday is comming up in a couple of months. Good job but sooo close.
Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.
I have the touch. I have the power.
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)
8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.
Mom, it’s like 3am your time, what are you doing… sorry, force of habit.
Edit: I realized I replied to a post more than a day old. For reference, it was 4pm my time when I wrote this. Man, the jokes I have to explain are the best!
Go mow the lawn, kid, or you’re not getting your allowance this week.
Fiiiiiine. Whatever.
I was born in 1983
I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.
