Yet another "How old are you?" thread

[zakael19]

Most folks still avidly using forums tend to be Gen X across all the ones i participate in, with a distribution that curves into older and down middle millennial. The younger you get, the more likely Reddit / Discord / etc is to be primary and they fall into the small tail of the forum use curve.

 

[MGibster]

For myself, I was born in 1985,so i'm like a middle millennial/gen Y

I divide the world between those born before the release of Return of the Jedi and those born after.

 

[Aeson]

I was born after D&D but before Star Wars. Elvis was still alive. Jaws, Drew Barrymore, and I are the same age.

 

[GrimCo]

I divide the world between those born before the release of Return of the Jedi and those born after.

That would be 83, right? Funny thing is, half my friends are born in 77-81, half are 86-89. But, we all had pretty similar childhood and grew up in similar way. Latchkey kids, riding bikes or on local school playground playing football till street lights came on, playing pirated games on bootlegged consoles, watching pirated programs on satellite (those who could afford it), walkmans, waiting on radio for song to play and press record and pray that host won't start talking near the end of the song.

 

[payn]

That would be 83, right? Funny thing is, half my friends are born in 77-81, half are 86-89. But, we all had pretty similar childhood and grew up in similar way. Latchkey kids, riding bikes or on local school playground playing football till street lights came on, playing pirated games on bootlegged consoles, watching pirated programs on satellite (those who could afford it), walkmans, waiting on radio for song to play and press record and pray that host won't start talking near the end of the song.

You had programs on satellite as a kid?

 

[Maxperson]

I arrived a month early in 1970.

I arrived breech in 1970.

 

[Maxperson]

That's exactly what a person who shot JFK would say

Not to mention, he was shot with a magic bullet and only D&D players have those.

 

[Tonguez]

Not to mention, he was shot with a magic bullet and only D&D players have those.

or someone wanting an easy high protein smoothie

 

[greymist]

1965 - the start of Generation X.

 

[GrimCo]

You had programs on satellite as a kid?

We got it later, in mid 90s. In my grandparents building, they had one antenna on the roof of the building and then signal from that one was routed trough regular tv cables in the building. Call it "building wide cable tv", just free. Before that, people had big fishbone antennas, and depending on where you live, with it, you could watch italian, austrian or hungarian regular programs.

Point is, while my older friends were in their early teens, an i was in my preschool years, we got access to foreign cool channels like CN or MTV in about same time, we watched same shows.