Cioma 
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 ๐ ๐จโ๐ฆฏ ๐ฝ@callisto Just turned 26 yesterday.
Micdan 
Lagz | Comms open!
Matt ๐ถ (LordMatt)
Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค@callisto I don't remember
ahimsa
Alpha Male Martha Stewart ๐๐@callisto nice try fed
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 donโt want any of you telling me that youโre old.
Save Elderly Housing! Patty ๐@callisto My anecdotal experience is the fedi skews Gen X...but the good, funny, thoughtful, idiosyncratic, creative, activist Gen X, not the dominant Trump Gen X.
Toni 
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ@pattykimura @callisto The spaces I'm in are mostly slightly younger than gen x but this poll does make me feel a little less ancient than I sometimes do because of all the millennials I talk to here.
Michael Meinel@callisto Funnily, itโs the third time today I cannot decide where to put my cross with my 40.5 yearsโฆ
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.
Massimiliano Polito ๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐นI'm 56 today ๐
The Gib 
Francy ๐ป@max e allora auguri ๐๐๐
Majden ๐จ๐๐ 
Dalla foto non si direbbe eh? ร perchรฉ รจ vecchia pure lei, devo rifarle ๐
Alexa Devreux-Swift@callisto I am absolutely ancient
CatSalad๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) 
Yes
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. 
@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz
Lol. I have a landline. It's a dial phone attached to the wall in my kitchen, and yes, I use it.
E. C. Bigribs@pattykimura
Do you subconsciously avoid calling people whose numbers have a lot of nines and zeroes, because of the time involved in waiting for the dial to roll back?
Agnieszka R. Turczyลska@eedly @pattykimura @catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto Once I've disassembled the dial, and when assembling I missed the break. So the dial had rolled back much faster. The switch was still able to recognise pulses properly. So, I've optimised calling in out household :)
@agturcz If I'd known that was possible back in the '80sโฆ
@eedly @pattykimura @catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto Probably that was switch-dependent. We had a modern switch, built in late 70s. Already electronic one. The old ones, with electromechanical circuits probably had problems with such optimisation, due to inertia.
@eedly @pattykimura @catsalad @callisto @agturcz
LoL no, but I know what you mean because I had a rotary as well.
LoL no, but I know what you mean because I had a rotary as well.
@eedly @catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz
Lol. The wait after a 9 or 0 is a welcomed rest from the effort of dialing.
@pattykimura For me it was just enough of a speed bump to forget the next digit I needed to dial. And that was before the aging and concussions and parenthood-related mental lapses.
@pattykimura @catsalad @callisto @agturcz
I just subscribed to a landline and I am looking for one of those.
I just subscribed to a landline and I am looking for one of those.
@pattykimura @catsalad @Frenezul0_o @agturcz Me too. I freak out when the cellular goes out (which is the only way I get internet, too). At very least I need a way to call in the outage! Having 911 could be handy too depending on what took down the cellular or electric.
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... ๐๐๐
Cam@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz Iโve seen a post somewhere of a person asking what the rj11 sockets in their newly acquired home were. ๐ด
@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 โค๏ธ โ โธซ@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 ๐ป
RainbowFrog
Sebastian 
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
buffy leigh (she/they)
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!
Phillip Upton
So many dynamos@philsplace @callisto @catsalad I remember when some present-day 41 year olds were still filling their diapers
Methodist_Coloring_Book@callisto so this place is full of oldsters
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!
@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
Little Art Histories@callisto So many people in my age range. I feel at home.