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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to start, i first found out what 9/11 was through memes
And you’re old enough to be online? That doesn’t seem correct
(This comment also serves to say how old I am)
Why? 2024-2001=21. That’s definitely old enough to be online
Edit: 23, definitely old enough
Hey. Shut up.
The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!
How dare you.
I think the minimum age for online these days is something like 43? Otherwise you have to pretend to be a bot?
9/11 is dad’s birthday.
9/11 is 0.81 repeating
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Gmail BETA
Gmail account is firstname.lastname and neither of them are rare.
Even though I don’t use Gmail anymore I keep that account alive.
Fun tip, dots in a Gmail address are ignored, so you can also use firstnamelastname, first.name.lastna.me, or any other combo to receive mail at
Fun fact:
Not all services that use “sign in with google” will respect that, though most will
Backblaze immediately comes to mind as one that always makes me include the dot or it gets pissy
Yeah but it used to not be ignored so now me and this random person with my name basically share an email address. We don’t get each other’s emails all that often somehow. We first chatted years ago when I got an important email for a job she applied for (soon after they started ignoring the dots), and she seemed decent so I didn’t change it. Definitely a huge risk but here we are.
I had 5-6 letter Gmail accounts
I still have [religious figure]@gmail.com
The account is completely overrun with spam. And there are about 20 people who seem to think it is their actual email address and I get like legit power bills and stuff on it.
I essentially had godXXX but my friend got offended so I changed the password to something random and stopped using it
With 1gb of storage and no ads.
And that was like multiple times the previous limits IIRC
Hotmail was like 2 megabytes lol
For me, gmail beta in college. Also my first gmail account got banned for sending myself too many invites to make more accounts… to make GameFAQs accounts. >___>
… how many accounts did you make? I made a new one every six months or so back then
It was probably the frequency. There was a point in time that I was making a bunch of comedic GameFAQs alts, and I probably did too many emails too fast. I didn’t think there would be consequences! Lol
My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.
… And that’s the same year I graduated high school…
Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.
i can’t imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar
I think you just write it in with pencil? So you can rub it out after you’ve turned to the right page.
Are those like wikipedias but circular?
I was born in 1983
I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.
Old enough to remember the fourth TV channel launching.
I was going to say this.
Instead I’ll say: 48k ZX tape noises and Ace of Aces. Betamax. Not answering the phone as we’re having dinner.
And manic miner! Damn that game was brutal.
I’m as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.
Technically, you’re younger than your tongue.
Because your age is counted from birth but your tongue was formed before you were born.By that logic, you’re younger than your body and even your mind.
Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.
It’ll be decades yet before we truely understand the effects. Of course, despite what Fukuyama is often quoted as saying, history is never over.
I was alive at the time of the first moon landing, but too young to care about it.
I was old enough to be disappointed watching it on our neighbors’ TV, because it was so far behind the science fiction stories I’d been reading when I ran out of library books and moved on to my big brother’s.
Me too. Well said!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger Badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom mushroom
Snaaaake! A snaaaaaaaake! Ooooooohhhh it’s a snaaaaaaaaaake!
I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.
LOAD “*”,8,1
C64 gang!
(Or VIC 20 I guess ^^)
Thank you, I would not have understood without your comment
RUN
Me too.
I was more of a LOAD $
Until you got FASTLOAD
I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.
Yes, it slowed down the processor frequency for games that would otherwise run too fast.
Sometimes. It was also frequently not connected to anything.
