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/
Four words: Sonic the Hedgehog One
Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.
LOAD “*”,8,1
C64 gang!
(Or VIC 20 I guess ^^)
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
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…
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the difference between these icons:
One of them has a more powerful, focused beam.
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.
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.
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
