sheddyone
CallistoSatisfying my unscientific curiosity here. Please boost for visibility.
How old are you?
25 or younger
26-40
41-65
66 or older
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Nick's world 🌎 👨🦯 🗽@callisto Just turned 26 yesterday.
Micdan Sigilo
Lagz | Comms open!
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@callisto I don't remember
ahimsa
+>e
Marty Fouts@callisto From early results it appears I have been on tne Internet longer than about 1/3 of you have been alive; so I don’t want any of you telling me that you’re old.
Michael Meinel@callisto Funnily, it‘s the third time today I cannot decide where to put my cross with my 40.5 years…
Sensitivityi@sensitivityi @led02 hahaha I'm clinging to the next category lol. Would've broken it differently if I was allowed more than four choices.
Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹I'm 56 today 😁
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Frenezul0_oYes
No
Remind me later
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I have dialed into a BBS before
What's a BBS?
What does "dial" mean?
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@Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz That last option...
I've actually heard "What's a landline?" before. 
Years ago I was in a mountain refuge with my son. When we got there I asked him to call his mother to tell her that everything was okay. He looked at the phone and asked me "how do you use it?"
It was an old telephone with a dial disk... 😁😁😁
Cam@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz I’ve seen a post somewhere of a person asking what the rj11 sockets in their newly acquired home were. 👴
@dawcas @agturcz @catsalad @Frenezul0_o Oh man. Dial-up internet and voice connection for every adult in the household, more if anybody worked from home, a fax machine, maybe an internet connection for the kids. So many frickin phone lines and exponentially more RJ11 jacks!!
Dusk2025@dawcas @agturcz @callisto @catsalad @Frenezul0_o
This reminded me, I predate the usage of RJ11. When I was a child an insulated wire passed through a small circular hole in the face plate in the wall, each of the two, or four, wires were held in place with a screw, the company owned the phone itself and I _think_ it was illegal to work on it yourself. Of course I was the same person then as I am now so, yes, I took them apart to see what was going on....
southie wusky@catsalad at my last IT job one of my coworkers is in higher education for cybersecurity and i have no higher education at all. he didn't know the difference between VGA and DB9 serial ports until i pointed it out, he had never used a serial port before
OldGeek@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz Or what is a party line. Remember my dad trying to make a call and losing it trying to get all the kids off the line.
@Frenezul0_o @oldgeek @catsalad @agturcz And we couldn't talk on it in a thunderstorm, but we could watch the sparks fly out of the receiver.
@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz i thought you were talking about some operation older people have hahah
@Frenezul0_o @catsalad @agturcz I don't honestly remember but if I did, I didn't spend much time there. I did dial into CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy at various times.
$0.32 per minute "local toll charges" doesn't sound like much until you've been online for two hours every day the month before your phone bill came, and then also you paid for the services by the minute. Yikes.
ScriptFanix💍
@Frenezul0_o I do know what "dial" means, and I know what a BBS is, but I've never dialed into one... I started with caramail then upgraded to IRC, and now, well... fedi. Also scrolled some USENET forums at one point n life.
@catsalad @callisto @agturcz
@catsalad @callisto @agturcz
Heather 👻
Khleedril
RainbowFrog
haskins
Milcom Miasma
Sebastian 
@callisto What a cruel range, 41-65…😅
Merri@ssamulczyk @callisto Might've gotten more balanced results with:
1) 29 or younger
2) 30 - 44
3) 45 - 59
4) 60 or older
As generally you'd expect there to be not many under 15, and also few 75 or older.
And of course this would've put myself to a bit younger seeming bracket where I mentally belong!
mcSlibinas
STOP🚗🚘🚛BlechTerror🛑Fascism@merri @ssamulczyk @callisto We just had a more detailled #poll here: https://mastodon.de/@blechterror/114779730845150110
the buff who fell to earth
Silver Arrows@ssamulczyk @callisto exactly! 65 and I'd only be a few years away from collecting my pension! I don't get to retire until 2050 something!
Timothy Wolodzko
KentuckyConjurerThis is interesting to me because I expected younger people to predominantly be on this app. (maybe that will change?)
Thank you for the poll!
So many dynamos@KentuckyConjurer @callisto Wonder what it would look like for bsky and threads (don't care about Xitter)
Same. I joined BS but love it more here so I never even check in there.
Joe Steinbring 
@callisto I feel 10 years older than I was at 8 am this morning. Should I account for that?
Lu-Tze@callisto
I'm a literary character, first published in 1992, so in a sense I'm 33.
I doubt that's really an answer to your question, though.
Angua 
@callisto
28 and a few months.
28 and a few months.
NaClKnight 🧂⚔️🥊@callisto Did not expect Masto to have a similar age breakdown as FB lol
@NaClKnight I did, tbh. From my very limited sample of each, we use it for different things, but this is about what I expected. (Also I would say FB trends a bit older, though that might just be my activist friends are mostly older than me.)
Guy Lateur@callisto Let's just say the first modems I remember were acoustically coupled
Jeff GriggI've been known to program computers by punching holes in stiff paper! Of two different kinds!
(And "Get off of my lawn!!!" 👴 )
@callisto I now feel super old being lumped into the 41-65 range. I'm only +3 from the high end of the other range.
@buffyleigh @Akki We just had a more detailled poll here: https://mastodon.de/@blechterror/114779730845150110
BlechTerror STOPP🚗🚘🚛terror (@[email protected])
#Altersumfrage von #ÜckÜck (erweitert): Wie alt sind die Leute hier im #Fediverse? 🇬🇧 Hello #Fedizens, what is your #age? (extended #poll) (Original siehe https://dresden.network/@ueckueck/114779189733524270 ) @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Umfrage #Alter #Fedizen #Statistik #statistics #demography #Demografie Bitteschön / 🇬🇧 Here you are: [ ] 0-9 [ ] 10-19 [ ] 20-29 [ ] 30-39 [ ] 40-49 [ ] 50-59 [ ] 60-69 [ ] 70-79 [ ] 80-89 [ ] 90+
David Hopeward@callisto I like the age breakdowns you’ve chosen there. It seems like points when life really changes phases.
paloma kop ⁂@callisto i am 33, i thought i was the average age for here but apparently i am somewhat on the younger side, which actually makes sense given the vibe (not a bad thing)
gavinisdie 
@callisto you could proabbly guess the age range im in based on this video that is in my favorites folder
Makary
IO 😇@callisto the biggest interval has the most people, curious