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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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[-] MECHAGIC@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Without telling how old you are

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[-] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

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

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

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 3 months 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.

[-] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

[-] dgmib@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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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[-] Dearth@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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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[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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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[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I still call them Opel Fruits

[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago
[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

i though vista was basically dead on arrival?

[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months 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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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 3 months ago

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

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

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

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Elders scrolls v is the first game I played

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[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

I still feel shy when buying beer

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

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

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