Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 14 Aug 2019, 14:35
Youngsters are always welcomekeyboard Kultist wrote: ↑12 Aug 2019, 23:30[…] I'm far older than most of you folks, I'll be 60 at the end of August […]
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Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 15 Aug 2019, 00:43
Thanks Grampa 
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 15 Aug 2019, 01:12
Here, only kbdfr is older than me.
On GH, every time I am about to think that I am oldest, terrapin will pop up and edge me out by a few months.
On GH, every time I am about to think that I am oldest, terrapin will pop up and edge me out by a few months.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 14:15
I feel young again!
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 14:40
You know you're old when somebody says, "Oh, Windows 95! My dad says he used that when he was a kid. It's ancient!"
When my dad was a kid, computers were just being invented to break Nazi code.
When my dad was a kid, computers were just being invented to break Nazi code.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 15:05
Ditto here. Enigma was broken right around the time my dad showed up, to keenly watch documentaries all about it, decades ever later. Me and my brothers were the ones to teach him Windows 95.
Something I routinely get from folk in the community when I meet them in real life is: “you’re younger than I thought!” I could take that as a compliment, but I prefer to take it to mean that I write like a rancorous auld fart!
Something I routinely get from folk in the community when I meet them in real life is: “you’re younger than I thought!” I could take that as a compliment, but I prefer to take it to mean that I write like a rancorous auld fart!
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 15:21
I've always been a rancorous old fart, even when I was (technically) young. Parents were born during WW2, gf's dad actually grew up then and was an evacuee. And then a nuclear physicist, which was a new and exciting thing back then rather than today's "that's something we can buy from China because we have no idea how to do it."
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 15:24
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 14:55
Time to bump this thread again. Please enter your year of birth!
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 20:51
Ok I’ll bite. 1982
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 21:38
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Yours, in a wad
Ambrose Twatt, Troll (Hons)
I hereby request my right, legally granted by the GDPR (article 1, subhead 0.1ac: Paddington Bear came to tea), to make a great girls blouse of myself, by getting into a tizzy about the nerve, the very nerve, of requesting personally embarrassing data like that heretowhichforewhether is requested (demanded!) in this World Wide Web hyperthread. You sir are an incorrigible data miner and this shall stop immediately, postprompterhocwith, at the penalty of my bunched knickers aired in public. By what right, what nerve!, do you invite voluntary contributions of a personally numerical endeavour? And by what means are *your* servers secured?
My lawyer will be with you once he has recovered from his unfortunate gynaecological hysteria.
Yours, in a wad
Ambrose Twatt, Troll (Hons)
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 21:51
Muirium, your unspeakable age cannot be hidden behind mere legal barriers.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even Beamsprings may die, but older still is Muirium", as the mad poet Abdul Alhazred wrote in the Necronomicon.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even Beamsprings may die, but older still is Muirium", as the mad poet Abdul Alhazred wrote in the Necronomicon.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 21:59
Ah, I remember good old Loveboat. (Lovecraft hadn’t been invented yet.)
Here’s a thought. A fairer or at least more creative way of confessing would be to name a technology which hadn’t been invented before you.
Mine… is the Cherry MX key switch.
Here’s a thought. A fairer or at least more creative way of confessing would be to name a technology which hadn’t been invented before you.
Mine… is the Cherry MX key switch.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 22:06
I'll go with Linux. I'm older than a penguin.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 22:28
Should we be relieved that you didn't refer us to Arkell vs. Pressdram for any subsequent comments?Muirium wrote: ↑16 Mar 2021, 21:38Dear sir,
I hereby request my right, legally granted by the GDPR (article 1, subhead 0.1ac: Paddington Bear came to tea), to make a great girls blouse of myself, by getting into a tizzy about the nerve, the very nerve, of requesting personally embarrassing data like that heretowhichforewhether is requested (demanded!) in this World Wide Web hyperthread. You sir are an incorrigible data miner and this shall stop immediately, postprompterhocwith, at the penalty of my bunched knickers aired in public. By what right, what nerve!, do you invite voluntary contributions of a personally numerical endeavour? And by what means are *your* servers secured?
My lawyer will be with you once he has recovered from his unfortunate gynaecological hysteria.
Yours, in a wad
Ambrose Twatt, Troll (Hons)
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 02:50
Naw, you've got it all wrong, you young whippersnapper.
Kbdfr is just checking to be sure that he is still the only "over-70" on the roster. I am curious, too, to see if I retain my #2 position.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 08:49
I pre-date The Morris Worm.
It's interesting to see that the composition of DT is younger than I'd thought, purely based on my interactions with member over the past month. Though maybe that's more a function of more active members being in the latter age brackets.
It's interesting to see that the composition of DT is younger than I'd thought, purely based on my interactions with member over the past month. Though maybe that's more a function of more active members being in the latter age brackets.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 09:39
Or that a healthy appreciation of vintage keyboard technology is a shortcut to wisdom and maturity. I choose to believe that.Go-Kart wrote: ↑17 Mar 2021, 08:49I pre-date The Morris Worm.
It's interesting to see that the composition of DT is younger than I'd thought, purely based on my interactions with member over the past month. Though maybe that's more a function of more active members being in the latter age brackets.
Excuse me while I say my nursery rhymes.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round ....
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 13:27
Or even a healthy function of the two....with keyboards comes wisdom!
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 13:44
Buy one, get one half price.
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 20:33
Re: Keyboard enthusiast age structure
Posted: 17 Mar 2021, 20:48
Least of all us wiseguys.
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