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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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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out

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[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.

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[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

That's me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the 'pc' ?

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I watched more than a couple movies i knew would be bad because Peter Cullen was doing some voice work in them

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

First manned space flight.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My first modem was 2400 baud.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years 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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[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got a 2400 baud modem and thought it was so cool that I didn’t need to use an acoustic coupler

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[–] MECHAGIC@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Without telling how old you are

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia... because I liked the alliteration.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 2 years ago

I still call them Opel Fruits

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i though vista was basically dead on arrival?

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

If you had decent hardware for Vista, it ran like a champ. Those who upgraded from xp running on base specs had a hard time

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[–] eponymous_anonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years 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

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

This could also be in a thread titled "Tell me you're Canadian without telling me you're Canadian".

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[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).

Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.

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

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

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