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submitted 6 months ago by nicknonya to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

[-] CodeHead@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.

[-] dialecticcake@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago

The Oregon Trail.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.

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[-] pocopene@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Classic movies are in black an white.

[-] toddestan@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.

I also know what a VCR is.

[-] MrEC@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 10 points 6 months ago

My personal 9/11 was when Kurt Kobain died

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.

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[-] ReddsWay@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I learned to write code on a TI99-4A

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[-] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.

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[-] master_of_unlocking@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack

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[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago
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[-] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.

Obligatory modem noises:

dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

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[-] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.

[-] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.

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[-] Peanutbuttergrits@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago

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

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[-] s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.

If that doesn't do it I don't know what will.

Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I saw Return of The Jedi in the theaters, as well as The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and The Hound. Oh and I vaguely remember watching a 2 hour long advertisement for The Power Glove, called "The Wizard."

I have also paid $0.60 per gallon for gasoline.

[-] Head@lemmings.world 8 points 6 months ago

I got my first dick pic scanned. Like, bro literally slapped his sausage in a scanner, shut the lid, and sat there while the light scanned up and down. All whilst maintaining a hard on.

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[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

A:/INSTALL.EXE

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 months ago

Lycos search on Netscape Navigator

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

I played games on channel 3.

I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.

The apple 2e's in school were great for playing games.

The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.

[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago

Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 6 months ago

Floppy floppies we're the first I touched. Internet access didn't exist.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.

[-] numbermess@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago

I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I remember when Fox was a brand-new network that only broadcast during specific times of the day in my area.

[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

If your friend could tap on your CD player without it skipping, you were cool

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 6 months ago

I got screwed between gen x and millennials. We're generationless middle people. Let's start a club and exclude all the normies.

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  • 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.

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[-] CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 7 points 6 months ago

I am Toy Story years old

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I smelled like teen spirit.

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