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/
I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn’t understand how a blind man could be reading to me.
Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.
5.25"
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Jealous?
Pics or not real!
/s
36?
I remember playing games on channel 3
Did you have the little switch screwed into the back of your set to go from “TV” to “GAME” ?
also, I came here to post “Atari 2600” but I’ll leave it in this comment instead :P
I had a small switch on the back of the adapter that chose between channel 3 or channel 4
ohhh yeah I think I remember that one too :)
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
Hey. Shut up.
The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!
Do you wanna check your math there?
No :P
Unreal
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
When I played with AWS way back before it became the behemoth it is, I used it to simply store a few small things, like my Keepass DB. I then deleted it.
So my fun fact: if you ever had an account with AWS and delete it, you can never use that same exact email again. So I went from lastname.firstname@gmail.com to lastnamefirstname@gmail.com and have had that AWS account for way longer than the original.
Yeah that’s signing in, so your username must match. There are reasons why you should not use sign in with Google, mostly to do with security and privacy. In which case you can sign up for an account using as many or as few dots as you like.
For just receiving mail this works universally.
I had 5-6 letter Gmail accounts
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. >___>
I was born in 1983
Clearly against the spirit of the law but not the letter. I like your style.
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…
LOAD “*”,8,1
C64 gang!
(Or VIC 20 I guess ^^)
Thank you, I would not have understood without your comment
RUN
Me too.
We out here poking and peeking.
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
I never had the cassette, but I had a friend that did and it was pretty sweet.
I didn’t either, but I sure remember it yelling at me when I forgot the ,8 !
Until you got FASTLOAD
I was more of a LOAD $
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.
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 used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.
Pogs
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.
Sameses
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!
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.
Bless Turbo Button-kun for making Gabriel Knight playable
Sometimes. It was also frequently not connected to anything.
