I joined Lemmy in about 400 years, way back in 2,444.
I’m 61. Who’s older?
Me, I’m 72. I didn’t expect to make it past 30; dying young was all the rage back then and I did a lot of drugs. But somehow here I am, knitting, sipping tea and browsing Lemmy.
What was the industrial revolution like?
How did you find Lemmy? It’s just the fediverse is a touch trickier to join without so I wonder how older people managed. I’m 50 but I’ve always been an internet person since the dawn of Livejournal so I figured most of it out.
From Reddit. But I started on Usenet.
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That’s pretty dang cool :)
58 here, feeling young :)
71 here. (username checks out)
Just curious, what brought you to lemmy?
I was gonna guess 76
6 y/o
Oldest I’ve seen so far claims 75. Can’t remember who it was though.
Is it you and your memory just isn’t as good as it used to be?
Oh, I am old, and my memory is dogshit, but I aint that old… :)
Lemmy was first released in 2019. So its oldest user can be no older than about 6 years old.
That certainly explains some things…
I am ancient
I’ve wondered how old the general usesr is. Somehow I imagine 30s (chronologically)
There are definitely people in their 90’s using Lemmy.
For my own sake, I’m gonna assume there’s some 90+ dude in a nursing home, shitposting and laughing his ass off regularly. The nurses just assume he really likes beans or something, and that makes him laugh harder.
Keep trolling, old dude.
Old man asks for some ibuprofen, nurse gives him some
He looks at them in his palm as a devilish grin spreads across his weathered face
“…Beans…”
Literally dies of laughter
…me… and the cough cough bois… at 3am cough cough …looking for slight giggle …beans
falls over like that one piece of bread
I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago when the internet was made!
Ok boomer.
Well fuck, I’m on the young end of Gen X and I was around for when the birth of the internet in '83.
What’s specific about '83? ARPANET began in 1969 and grew from there, mostly in academia, until HTTP finally transformed it into the WWW in the '90s.
The “September that never ended” began in 1993. Maybe you meant that?
I’m thinking of TCP/IP allowing for the connectivity to massively expand around '83.
Do you remember using Gopher?
I do. And telnet, and eventually winsock and altavista. I miss alt.lemmy.shitpost
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Oh, you search the first account, well that must be [email protected]
But I bet he isn’t the oldest user.
I heard that the average user is in his thirties so it skews a bit up compared to other new platforms. There are probably some tech savvy people that worked with computers until retirement on here.
bout tree fiddy
Who opened the door for the gotdamn lochness monster?!
I’d guess late 60s maybe
Way older than that i think. I’d guess 80s. Retired people have a lot of free time.
You’d think that, i did but then when I retired at 35 one of the things I realised quickly was I had no free time as I had so many interests i wanted to persue, I was busier then when I “worked”. I’m 58 now.
But maybe it’s just the perception of time changes ? Like when you’re a kid and time seems interminable and this is the opposite but there never seems to be enough hours in the day.
That seems like a bit of a humble brag (or jealousy on my part)
What did you do for work that let you retire at 35 though?
69
Nice
No thnx.
Someone mentioned being 101 in a comment. Probably them.
