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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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[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 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."

[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

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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?

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
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[-] lionheat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

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[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

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

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

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

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

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

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

[-] 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. 🎵

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

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

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

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] 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.

[-] 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.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 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

[-] Uncle_Abbie@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I'm barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.

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