deskthority

90s it surprised me a few collectors under20

Pretty sure if you run it on GH the age structure will be much much younger. While I'm pretty average here I am (and feel xD) much older on GH.

I wonder if that explains their preoccupation with ridiculously garish and ridiculously expensive artisan keycaps.

shreebles wrote: ↑I wonder if that explains their preoccupation with ridiculously garish and ridiculously expensive artisan keycaps.

Almost certainly :p . The vintage keyboard scene is much smaller there, too.

This sample can't be very objective, with under 100 entries after all this time.

Where is everybody? There is no embarrassment when the data is anonymous.

Here's a new theory. The data is skewed towards younger participants because they are more likely to spend a lot of time on internet forums and see this thread.

While there are of course participants who are 50 or older, and have seen and voted in this thread I think that this age group is less likely to check in here so often.

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Kids these days.

I got love for you if you were born in the 80s!

This could be easily the Keyboard age structure. Mayby a bit more from the 1990s and less form the 70s.

I always thought this community was made out of old pals, but not really.

Who the fuck voted >2011

I'm calling your parents!

'89 represent

Wodan wrote: ↑I got love for you if you were born in the 80s!

Amen, bruvva.

Wodan wrote: ↑Who the fuck voted >2011

I'm calling your parents!

This must have been the bot!

Once again that proves we have all age groups here at DT, from 80+ (kbdfr) to five year old users who probably use expensive custom 60%'s with all kinds of clacks.

Fohat and I are 2 of the oldest, but I don't know who the other two are.

elecplus wrote: ↑Fohat and I are 2 of the oldest, but I don't know who the other two are.

I don't think so, we do have other "elderly" users. I'm not so young myself going on fiveO. I know that kbdfr is quite a bit older than me.

I'm twenty-nine and I feel like I'm half-fossilised D:!

kbdfr wrote: ↑

Your the Tipro Wizard kbdfr.

I remember seeing some Olivetti board with blue labeled keycaps before it was thrown out at my dad's office. If I only had known...

Well, grew up with shitty rubberdomes until I ran into printed circuit issues with simultaneous keypresses and after some research decided my keyboard was shit. So the whole 96-00 bracket does not surprise me at all. It's when I spent most time on the internet anyway.

Sounds similar to my story on the entry to mech keyboards
Playing emulated CPS2 and NeoGeo games on WinKawaks back in the early 00s and back then not even wondering why my crappy Compaq dome keyboard was blocking inputs -- I just figured it was normal. It wasn't until ~2010 that I read about mystical keyboards that were (more or less) impervious to this input blocking and bought my first mechanical keyboard, a Filco Majestouch.

Way before that I was given a hand-me-down C64 when I was about 9 years old, but this was in 1996 so it was already well and truly past its prime by then but for me it was my first computer and as mostly an "outside kid" it pretty much blew my mind anyway.

I feel old... 1985

snoopy wrote: ↑
I feel old... 1985

Pppfffttt!

I am typing this on a keyboard older than that!

snoopy wrote: ↑I feel old... 1985

Really don't! My oldest keyboard from 1970 is two years older than me.

fohat wrote: ↑

snoopy wrote: ↑
I feel old... 1985

Pppfffttt!

I am typing this on a keyboard older than that!

hmm... I'm currently also typing on a keyboard that is 2 years older than me...

I have been on the Internet longer than at least fifteen people in this thread have been alive.

Findecanor wrote: ↑
I have been on the Internet longer than at least fifteen people in this thread have been alive.

I was on Compuserve regularly in 1992 and probably occasionally a year or 2 before that.

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