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 still call them Opel Fruits
PR#6
my first video game was Prince of Persia on a 386 processor, my age was in the single digits
I saved up a lot my lawn-mowing dollars to buy an Atari 2600.
I know what the 3/4 switch does on the back of a VCR.
I also know what a VCR is.
There were no TV commercials on Sunday.
I got an original Nintendo new for Christmas.
I did too, but it was a famicon because I was living overseas.
I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.
I am Toy Story years old
Old enough that I don’t follow trends anymore and I just kind of do my own thing.
Lycos search on Netscape Navigator
Old enough that I briefly encountered floppy disks but still young enough that someone tried to explain to me what the “save” symbol means.
Floppy floppies we’re the first I touched. Internet access didn’t exist.
“By the power of Greyskull!”
There was a misprint on magic the gathering cards that affected the artwork/coloration the year I was born. WotC recalled all of them and destroyed them all. The remaining ones that were already purchased sell for absurd money
I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.
I grew up with the Star Wars trilogy on VHS box set and phantom menace was one of my first movies in a theatre.
