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
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!
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36?
That’s a damn good guess!
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 :)
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 was born in 1983
Clearly against the spirit of the law but not the letter. I like your style.
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.
If someone has the email account password your security is already fucked. If they don’t then there’s no way to pop your oauth unless the client is shit. If the client is shit you shouldn’t give it your credentials.
SSO is not a security vuln.
Yeah but it used to not be ignored so now me and this random person with my name basically share an email address. We don’t get each other’s emails all that often somehow. We first chatted years ago when I got an important email for a job she applied for (soon after they started ignoring the dots), and she seemed decent so I didn’t change it. Definitely a huge risk but here we are.
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
I still have [religious figure]@gmail.com
The account is completely overrun with spam. And there are about 20 people who seem to think it is their actual email address and I get like legit power bills and stuff on it.
I essentially had godXXX but my friend got offended so I changed the password to something random and stopped using it
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. >___>
… how many accounts did you make? I made a new one every six months or so back then
It was probably the frequency. There was a point in time that I was making a bunch of comedic GameFAQs alts, and I probably did too many emails too fast. I didn’t think there would be consequences! Lol
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
Edit: 23, definitely old enough
Hey. Shut up.
The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!
How dare you.
Do you wanna check your math there?
No :P
Sorry, my bad! Edited
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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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 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!
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 $
Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.
Old enough to turn to Channel 3 before blowing on the cartridge.
I’m so old I’ve seen dozens of threads like this one.
I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.
I wrote custom software to manage my different versions based on which software I needed.
I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.
