I think a big chunk of us are gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot. Then it went mainstream. Move to digg. Move to Reddit. It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.
Yeah it’s weird but I get that exact feeling here sometimes. Some shit I get away with here would fly in the 90’s maybe early 00’s but def not on the mainstream socials. I find myself both pleasantly and worriedly surprised.
It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.
Hey now some of us are older Gen Z. But I grew up around a lot of old tech so I’m weirdly more similar to millennials and Gen X in some regards on that front.
I was raised by my grandmother, my biological fathers a rapist (I know from experience) and my mother is fucking crazy due to untreated bipolar disorder. Also yes TVs don’t get enough appreciation.
Lemmy user base is older than i expected
I think a big chunk of us are gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot. Then it went mainstream. Move to digg. Move to Reddit. It keeps getting ruined. Now we’re here but I guess at some point we’ll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.
Yeah it’s weird but I get that exact feeling here sometimes. Some shit I get away with here would fly in the 90’s maybe early 00’s but def not on the mainstream socials. I find myself both pleasantly and worriedly surprised.
We are the trailblazing swarm of locusts.
Hey now some of us are older Gen Z. But I grew up around a lot of old tech so I’m weirdly more similar to millennials and Gen X in some regards on that front.
next time you see your parents give them a hug for raising you right
also the tv. the tv doesn’t get enough hugs and i’m sure it’s sad.
I was raised by my grandmother, my biological fathers a rapist (I know from experience) and my mother is fucking crazy due to untreated bipolar disorder. Also yes TVs don’t get enough appreciation.
apologies, hug your grandmother. and your tv.
Ya couldn’t have known and I can only hug my TV. My grandmother ain’t dead, just driving to Idaho.
idaho? she might as well be dead i got family in burley and boise. that drive suuuucks and it’s wet today. give her my love too.
She’s going up towards Elk Bend. Also she’s leaving from San Bernardino California so she has a couple days for shit to dry up.
Also yeah Idaho while beautiful also kinda just sucks, luckily unlike Utah it can be salvaged pretty easily.
Slashdot represent!
I’ll give you a pity upvote. There you go buddy.
I hang out on FARK btw, we should hang!
I’m glad to find out I’m not the only one. I took pretty much the same path. Can’t forget many thousands of hours spent on IRC.
You should move to piefed next
This was before my time. But there is a pretty wide range of users here, I’ve noticed.
Gen X local bar.
Have you ever seen the movie they made in like 2000? It’s interesting to say the least.
They actually filmed that in the town I live. I still haven’t bothered to watch it though.
No! I’ll have to put it on the list.
Even old farts can use new tech.
new tech is more user friendly than old tech, so i don’t see why not
But old tech was mesmerizing, luring you in like the song of a siren or some shit.
WHY IS MY LEMMY BLINKING 12:00
IT KEEPS SCREAMING PC LOAD LETTER. I BURNED MY LAST PRINTER WHAT THE HELLS
“PC LOAD LETTER” just means it wants woke paper, but doesn’t want any if that nancy Euro A4 shit.
That’s the signal to insert the Betamax cassette.
I DON’T LIKE BETAMAX I LISTEN TO STEELY DAN
Steely Dan was the best porn star I ever dated, Rock Hard Ron was the second.
I am so glad I missed this 60’s reference. That means I’m young!
It is also not really a reference that is widely known outside of the US (or North America).
really? it was such a fun cartoon. like felix the cat. y’all missing out.
I think I remember seeing the live action movie when I was a kid, and that’s the only reference I have of the characters