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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by nobu_the_bard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:09PM (4 children)

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:09PM (#532100)

    It's a little vague, this question, isn't it? I counted the mid-80s as starting since I was first announced as being born on an old BBS (or so I have been told).

    Doesn't this question imply though that nearly everyone here is going to be 20 ?

    Or maybe it meant, how many hours have you spent online? I don't think many people would have a good handle on that.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by nobu_the_bard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:11PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:11PM (#532102)

    Doesn't this question imply though that nearly everyone here is going to be 20 ?

    Dangit, I meant: Doesn't this question imply though that nearly everyone here is going to pick more than 20 ? You'd almost have to be a teenager or younger to pick less.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @01:41PM (#534426)

    If you were announced as being born on a BBS, you were not online any more than your grandma is online when you post something about her on SoylentNews.
    (Well, that assumes the "on a BBS" refers to the announcement, not to your birth ;-))

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @09:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @09:56AM (#540886)

    I interpreted as regularly online. Thus although I had internet at school maybe in 95/96 (I can't remember exactly when they got the computers, but they were Windows 95), I didn't regularly use it. It wasn't until '99 that I got internet at home, so choose the 15-20 years option.