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/
Four words: Sonic the Hedgehog One
you are in idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaa
Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.
Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:
One of them has a more powerful, focused beam.
16ish
Without telling how old you are
ish
Gmail BETA
Gmail account is firstname.lastname and neither of them are rare.
Even though I don’t use Gmail anymore I keep that account alive.
Fun tip, dots in a Gmail address are ignored, so you can also use firstnamelastname, first.name.lastna.me, or any other combo to receive mail at
Fun fact:
Not all services that use “sign in with google” will respect that, though most will
Backblaze immediately comes to mind as one that always makes me include the dot or it gets pissy
I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.
Yes, it slowed down the processor frequency for games that would otherwise run too fast.
My childhood is having Carameldansen be a popular meme, and then having that promptly taken away.
EDIT: I also witnessed the birth and the death of “Vine”.
who took carameldansen away from you?
Reddit, and Roblox being run into the ground.
My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.
… And that’s the same year I graduated high school…
Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.
i can’t imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar
I’m as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.
Technically, you’re younger than your tongue.
Because your age is counted from birth but your tongue was formed before you were born.
LOAD “*”,8,1
C64 gang!
(Or VIC 20 I guess ^^)
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.
One time when I was 10 my teacher rolled in a TV and made us watch some building fall over on the news. I thought it was boring and wanted to go back to learning stuff. But then afterwards all the grown-ups, and I mean like, all the grown-ups got really really angry and weird, like I would say things like that I don’t want to knock over other people’s buildings and they said that meant I was a terrorist.
But, did they also gather the whole school in the cafeteria to watch, via those same TV carts, the first teacher and mother take off for space — only to have the shuttle explode in real-time? That was an interesting thing to see: hundreds of students looking to their nearest adult and finding emotionally-glitching humans only.
Oh, man. What a day that was. I was in first grade, still too young to understand that there were people in that thing and that those people died.
When we watched it blow up like fireworks, I don’t think we realized that wasn’t what it was supposed to do. Our poor teacher had to process it pretty quickly so she could explain it to us.
Sure was the last time we watched live news in school. 😶
