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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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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I first saw The Lion King in the cinema, my best friend and I couldn't stop crying at the Mufasa scene.

We were probably taken to a colourful McDonalds, to be cheered up, however we did not use the play room as someone was having a birthday there.

[–] Miimikko@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] CodeHead@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

There was a time when impeached presidents resigned. That was my earliest memory.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first CD, in fact the first piece of music, I ever bought was Green Day Dookie.

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[–] MrEC@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I had to choose between Betamax and VHS.

[–] ReddsWay@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I learned to write code on a TI99-4A

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[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I was a kid we’d play the newly released video game version of The Oregon Trail on our Apple II.

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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

I played games on channel 3.

I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.

The apple 2e's in school were great for playing games.

The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.

I also know what a VCR is.

[–] dialecticcake@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I was a child when I got Weird Al's autograph when he performed at an antique car show with the audience all sitting on grass. He was super nice.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.

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[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Classic movies are in black an white.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

8 track tapes, Intellivision, rotary phones, my first crush was David Cassidy.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My family had the Prodigy internet service when I was a kid.

Obligatory modem noises:

dooodooodoodododoo....dooodooo...doooo.dooo.dooodooodooo EEEEHHHHRRRRHHHHHEHEEHHHARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

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[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have videos of me as kid on 8mm. I spent my bonds I got at birth on a c64. I was one of the "cool" kids with a pager in school.

My grandma called the local TV studio and put me on the phone because I wanted to talk to someone because I was pissed off Tom and Jerry wasn't on because some guy named Ronald Reagan was on TV interrupting my favorite cartoons.

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[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the "save" symbol means.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago

Floppy floppies we're the first I touched. Internet access didn't exist.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I remember playing Duck Hunt as a kid when the combo NES package dropped and thought, no way video games get better than this.

[–] master_of_unlocking@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My friend's stereo destroyed my cassette of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

Lycos search on Netscape Navigator

[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Im sim city old. The first one.

Edit ok actually older than that.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I saw Return of The Jedi in the theaters, as well as The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and The Hound. Oh and I vaguely remember watching a 2 hour long advertisement for The Power Glove, called "The Wizard."

I have also paid $0.60 per gallon for gasoline.

[–] s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

During my adolescence, MTV played music videos. Although they had started "Real World" and "Road Rules."

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

I have about 5 pounds of bicentennial quarters.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.

[–] Peanutbuttergrits@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm "I Want to Hold Your Hand" old.

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[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

My first memory of TV was Gorbachev talking to Thatcher.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.

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[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Old enough to have seen The Phantom Menace in theaters, young enough to have liked Jar Jar Binks

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[–] Head@lemmings.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I got my first dick pic scanned. Like, bro literally slapped his sausage in a scanner, shut the lid, and sat there while the light scanned up and down. All whilst maintaining a hard on.

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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

A:/INSTALL.EXE

[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I am younger than Woodstock and "The Summer of Love" but older than Disco.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
  • SP: 2
  • LP: 4
  • SLP: 6

SLP was always the way to go because the quality was so shit even live it didn't make much difference.

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[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me sing you the song of my people:

Boop beap boop boop krssssh GANG GANG GAN ssssSSS sssSSS sssSSS ieeee chchchCHCHCHCHCH SHSHSH

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I watched the twin towers fall but none of it connected and never gave me the fanatical patriotism it was supposed to.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

YouTube didn't exist until after I graduated high school

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