IcyMidnight
jwzThe Millennial CAPTCHA.
This is really well done:
https://jwz.org/b/ykPi
What would a Gen X captcha look like? Go play outside. Take public transit unsupervised. Climb over a fence with barbed wire on top without ripping your jacket.
✨pencilears✨@jwz what do you need to make thermite? Of these items abandoned in a field, which ones are flammable?
blackcoat@jwz you're describing my childhood, and I wasnt born until the 80s
Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)@jwz Gen Z captcha: rewrite your entire house in Rust
(this is a joke)
「ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ」@jwz “Select all images with Members of the A-Team”
krejgo@jwz
* Talk about what it was like to be young GenX and how everything was better
(Yep, GenX are ticking that Boomerism box now)
jelte@jwz enter this number on a rotary dial
Matt Palmer@jwz take a big ol' lungful of tetraethyl lead.
Jok@jwz Barbed wire? LOL, where I grew up they used broken glass on top of walls 😬 (c.f. not where I grew up, but for illustration: https://presqu-ile-de-crozon.com/curiosites/tessons-de-bouteille-verre-sur-un-mur-001.php )
Jay Grant 🏳️⚧️@jwz set things on fire using a lighter and your cousin's aquanet
Arjen Poutsma@jwz How to survive quicksand.
dundee@jwz climb to the top of the tree and hang head down on your legs🤭
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🌮 🚀 🌗@jwz Find a number in a phone book and call them from a pay phone, with the quarter in your pocket.
Look up a book in a card catalog.
Fully explore an unfinished construction site or abandoned building, without telling anyone but your friends.
Survive coming home from school, letting yourself in, feeding yourself. Find MTV and a book to avoid boredom.
#genx
Mark Dennehy@jwz The captcha would just pay attention to you for 30 seconds and you pass if you panic.
skryking@jwz dude, most of us Xers are too old to climb a tree or a fence anymore.
mhoye@jwz Teach a NORAD machine to play tic-tac-toe.
Nick Phillips
kfringe
miketcope@jwz
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
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Merc@jwz A Gen X captcha?
* dial this number on a rotary phone
* identity the port that connects to the printer (showing an old-school motherboard with serial, parallel, etc. ports)
* eject the floppy disk in MacOS
* make this VCR signal visible on the TV (a TV currently on channel 5)
* make the picture better on this TV with rabbit ears
* rewind this audio cassette with one of these tools: screwdriver, pencil, pen, hammer, magnet
* identity by sound a 9600+ baud connection
FozzTexx
Eric Vitiello@jwz ok it got me wrong. I am not a millennial. I guess I’m a little close though? Also the fake mcsweenys article you have to read is hilarious. And bonus chocolate rain. So good.
James Young@pixel @jwz it's real, and a classic! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers
Jonathan Hendry@jwz I made it thru the first one after a bit, then noped out instantly at the second one. The secrets of the millennials are safe from me.
Shane Celis@jwz I made it through but I’m not a millennial. Am i a generational hacker now?
exoplanetary@jwz Might have a few edge cases, I'm on the older end of the zoomers and got through it pretty fine. (Michael Cera gave me some trouble.)
Hugh@jwz and the reward for getting through was perfect (and not something I’ve seen in a long time!)
gnarf@jwz I haven't seen the video at the end in AGES, I really enjoyed that! :)
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