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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] 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I was using 5,25″ discs.

[–] blockheadjt 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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. 🎵

[–] MrsDoyle 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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] 3 points 2 months ago

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Younger than the iphone 👶

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[–] Reverendender 3 points 2 months ago

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

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

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] eponymous_anonymous 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:

A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,

B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and

C) The Littlest Hobo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I’m curious.

Did you grow up to be a female Canadian border patrol hobo who also knows some medicine?

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

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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