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There seems to be a similar general demographic of late 30's to early 40's users here... (could easily be my confirmation bias saying that). I was around for Napster, GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo, Mama, AoL, AiM, and if you are ~40yo, you likely were in this same wave of broad scale adoption of the internet by average Joe jr public in the latest 90's and early naughties. We are the first group where digital life is the rule, not the exception(s) and early adopters; the first gen of internet grandparents... How does that legacy play out. /r

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm 54. We built this shit from the ground up. We went from zero internet to dial-up as we went from teens to young adults.

We installed the first DSL and cable lines, mitigated Y2K in the field and on the keyboard.

We straddled the digital divide. We've seen it all.

tl:dr; Lawn. Off of it.

[-] artificialfish@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

I look forward to playing n64 Mario kart in the nursing home with the bros

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You say Mario Kart 64 for the age cred but we both know it will be double dash and I'm from pre SNES Mario Kart era.

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