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View Poll Results: To which generation do you belong? (results anonymous) | |||
Silent Generation (1928-45) | 1 | 0.50% | |
Baby Boomers (1946-64) | 52 | 25.74% | |
Generation X (1965-80) | 88 | 43.56% | |
Millennials/Generation Y (1981-96) | 59 | 29.21% | |
Zoomers/Generation Z (1997-2012) | 2 | 0.99% | |
Voters: 202. You may not vote on this poll |
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05-16-2024, 03:50 PM | #61 |
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2010
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05-16-2024, 03:51 PM | #62 |
MVP
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Newport, Or
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'60 here. I never liked being lumped in with the Boomers. Hell, my dad was all of 5 when the war ended.
As to my computer experience, I got my first taste in high school. It was writing programs in Basic using the teletype to the computer at the district offices. I still have a couple rolls of the punch tape with my programs. Early 80's the first PCs started coming out and I wished I could afford one. I settled for a Radio Shack Color Computer hooked up to a tv. Fun times! |
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05-16-2024, 03:56 PM | #63 | |
NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
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We moved every year at least once and I was always the 10-year-old who had to lift half of that thing onto the moving truck. Last edited by Rain Man; 05-16-2024 at 05:04 PM.. Reason: Typographical error required fixing. |
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05-16-2024, 04:00 PM | #64 | |
Suupraa Geniuuusss
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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05-16-2024, 04:00 PM | #65 |
Stroking to the SB Champs!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Flatlands of Kansas
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Boomer by definition (Dad was a WWII Vet), but Gen X by age (1967). All my siblings are Boomers
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05-16-2024, 04:36 PM | #66 | |
M-I-Z-Z-O-U
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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My mom and dad bought a Zenith with a built-in telephone in 1982. It stopped working in 90 (tube went bad), Dad fixed it for about six months more of life, and then the tube died for good in 1991. When we finally got them moved out of that house in May of last year, that piece of shit was still sitting in the same spot (in their very small 2-bedroom home). My mom refused to get rid of it because “it was a nice piece of furniture and I paid a lot for it!” Despite it not working for 31 years at that point. If Dad hadn’t died, she would have insisted on dragging that worthless hunk of trash to the new house, too. |
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05-16-2024, 04:53 PM | #67 |
Starter
Join Date: Mar 2021
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Gen X, and proud owner of a Verti-Bird, Lite Brite, Mattel Electric football (hand-held), Kenner SSp race cars, Mattel flying Aces aircraft carrier, table hockey, and many electric football and baseball games
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05-16-2024, 04:54 PM | #68 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2013
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I remember having cable as a kid and my uncle worked for the cable company. He installed some type of filter on our line that gave us all the free premium channels including paper view.
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05-16-2024, 04:55 PM | #69 |
On Hiatus
Join Date: Aug 2000
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I had one of those Console TV"s....it sat in my basement until sold it to a guy who took out the TV and made it into a pretty cool stereo and record cabinet.
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05-16-2024, 04:57 PM | #70 |
#triggering
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Tejas
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05-16-2024, 05:08 PM | #71 |
Don't Be A Dick
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Joplin
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Please don’t sample my poll.
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05-16-2024, 05:20 PM | #72 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jul 2009
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I’m a millennial that sadly….acts like a boomer
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05-16-2024, 05:49 PM | #73 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2013
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05-16-2024, 06:45 PM | #74 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Basically what I'm saying is CP is the final bastion of human intelligence and we must protect it at all costs. |
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05-16-2024, 06:52 PM | #75 | |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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I was in I.T. early. Very few were really using a home computer due to the cost. And the internet and surfing was not a part of our culture until broadband became more widely available. Example cloud computing. AWS wasn’t even available til 2006. Wasn’t widely adopted until 2009. Microsoft’s cloud, Azure, came out in 2012 but it was 2015/2016 when it started to get widely used by business. I see posts that say Window's 95 was the turning point. It was a lot cheaper than pc’s in that era and it started the home computing revolution but widely used by Americans didn’t start until home units went below $1000. |
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