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submitted 1 year 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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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

YouTube didn't exist until after I graduated high school

[-] Xtallll 7 points 1 year ago

Let me sing you the song of my people:

Boop beap boop boop krssssh GANG GANG GAN ssssSSS sssSSS sssSSS ieeee chchchCHCHCHCHCH SHSHSH

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[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

My first console controller only had one button, audio cassette storage was my first pirating medium, I remember when doctors used to smoke in the examination room.

[-] numbermess@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] Pegajace@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was the Special Edition of A New Hope.

I loved Episodes I & II as a kid, but by the time Episode III rolled around I had developed enough appreciation for good screenwriting that I left the theater mildly disappointed.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

All the neighborhood kids came to play Pong at my house

[-] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I watched my Saturday morning cartoons on betamax and I had transformers g1, gijoe, and heman on all of them

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Leaded gasoline, Vietnam war winding down along with Disco.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I vaguely remember live tv of men walking on the moon. Not the first guy though, I’m not that old

[-] Kattiydid@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Played in the creek (pronounced crik), caught pollywogs and toads and snakes. Walked barefoot to the farm down the street to buy sweet corn. Heard stories about my uncles finding dynamite in a cave near the railroad and bringing it home and passing it around at school before the fire department confiscated it all as well as stories of my great grandma holding my great grandpa at shotgun point till he did the chore he'd said he'd get to months before. I remember the internet screaming at me when I picked up the home phone. My dad's first cell phone was a Nokia brick. The first Galaxy smart phone came out the year I graduated highschool.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I have the touch. I have the power.

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[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There were no TV commercials on Sunday.

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I remember exactly where I was & what I was doing when 9/11 happened. I was in middle school, science class, it promptly ended & we watched the live footage play on a CRT TV.

I'm older than ATX but younger than x86 architecture.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Analog childhood, digital adulthood

[-] robolemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits

[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.

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[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Pokemon Red was an amazing part of my childhood

[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids in an arcade, before kindergarten.

[-] Addv4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I remember playing Rollercoaster tycoon on windows 95.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

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[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

“By the power of Greyskull!”

[-] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

🎵 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. 🎵

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Old enough to have seen The Phantom Menace in theaters, young enough to have liked Jar Jar Binks

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You tryin' to rizz my skibiddi up? Aye? In ohio no less.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement

[-] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ghostbusters

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

[-] lionheat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.

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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

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

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, let's see.

I was alive for the bicentennial of the USA, don't remember that but do remember rotary phones. The population of the world doubled between my birth and when I was age 42.

Not sure Lemmy skews older than "the rest of the internet" though, have you ever seen Facebook?

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

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[-] 872XXE@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[-] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I was using 5,25″ discs.

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