Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of “I remember”-type responses, so I have to wonder.

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I’m in my 20s. I got into retro computing because I used older (Windows 95) computers my parents handed down to me when I was a child and things got cemented and I started looking at even older tech when I started watching YouTube videos covering retro computing.

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Alright! It’s kind of similar for me, I grew up playing among old towers in our basement, and I still have a supply of retro stuff handed down to me, if I can catch it. I love seeing problems solved in different ways, or even the same way but visibly in old hardware. Today it’s all buried under the higher layers of abstraction, and the the other end of gen Z hasn’t even used a filesystem necessarily, let alone had to think about the physical layer.

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I’m approaching the top of the hill.

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What was your first machine?

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A Packard Bell Legend 486. Can’t recall the exact model.

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I’m a Millennial (35 years old)

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When did you get the internet for the first time?

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My first PC was in 1998, I think we had internet in 1999.

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Another gen-z dude here 🙋🏼‍♂️

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Nice! Did you experience the CD era at all, or were you straight into MP3s?

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More like both, i always had a little cd collection, but it was mostly self-burned from mp3s my dad bought off iTunes. I also had a early-ish mp3 player at some point.

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Im somewhere between Gen Z and Millennial i don’t feel like either “Culture” is normal

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I’m pretty close to the dividing line too, and I can no longer stay up all night and feel fine.

i don’t feel like either “Coulter” is normal

I’m not familiar with this meme, and DDG is giving me farm equipment.

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The meme is bad autocorrect…

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Ah, that would explain it. Well, I know how to make really nice clean furrows with my horse-drawn plough now.

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