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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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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

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

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] lionheat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] 872XXE@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ghostbusters

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 4 points 2 months ago

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

[–] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] hisao@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

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[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

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[–] ashar@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

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