Your age rounded to the nearest decade

[EmilyMiller]

I’m feeling very young on here today.

So I don’t want any personally identifiable stuff. Just if you are 32, then 30. If you are 37, then 40. If you are 19, then 20.

I’m making an assumption we have no 100s and we really shouldn’t have anything less than 20, should we?

Thinking of drawing a histogram.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Oh and 30 (that’s a bit scary, TBH).

Em

 

[AlinaX]

As I told someone earlier, I remember installing Linux from floppy disks...

 

[EmilyMiller]

As I told someone earlier, I remember installing Linux from floppy disks...

I did a History of the Internet, which also talked about generations of hardware. So I am proud to say I know what a floppy disk is. Never seen one IRL though.

Em

 

[alohadave]

Rounded up, 50, but I have few years before that happens.

It's funny how I keep waiting for the 'feeling like an adult' part to occur, but it keeps eluding me.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's funny how I keep waiting for the 'feeling like an adult' part to occur, but it keeps eluding me.

I hear that all the time from people on here . Porn keeps you young!

Em

 

[Dearelliot]

Rounded up 90, in about 16months. And "me too" re growing up...any day now.

 

[ronde]

As I told someone earlier, I remember installing Linux from floppy disks...

I'll raise your Linux on floppy disks to doing Autocad on a Compaq "Portable" that weighed 28 pounds and had two floppy drives, one for the program and one for saving data.

 

[LadyAdonia17]

50

 

[Bazzle]

As I told someone earlier, I remember installing Linux from floppy disks...

Windows from was bad enough.. 20+ of them?

40

 

[onehitwanda]

40 but only just.

 

[djrip]

40. 90s kids unite! I'm gonna go watch Saved By the Bell.

 

[AlinaX]

Windows from was bad enough.. 20+ of them?

40

Typically about 8-10, I think, for Linux in those early days.

 

[Bazzle]

Typically about 8-10, I think, for Linux in those early days.

I think I had to do it twice

 

[EmilyMiller]

Running score:

20:
30:
40:
50:
60:
70:
80:
90:

We need more data.

Em

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

By decades, I'm now closer to 100 than to birth.

I'll raise your Linux on floppy disks to doing Autocad on a Compaq "Portable" that weighed 28 pounds and had two floppy drives, one for the program and one for saving data.

ronde, not AutoCAD but I remember running engineering programs on probably that same version of the Compaq that we called a "luggable." I also remember my college girlfriend's roommate running FORTRAN from data cards and her having to stand in line to load them. I was taking the same class at my university and felt so fortunate that we'd switched over to a real computer network with cool 12" (or was it 10"? Tiny!) monochrome monitors and actual keyboards just before I started as a freshman.

 

[SamScribble]

Eighty - to my considerable surprise

 

[AwkwardlySet]

40.
Visually, my students always say I am 30. Mentally, I would say 10 is about right

 

[Handley_Page]

I’m feeling very young on here today.

So I don’t want any personally identifiable stuff. Just if you are 32, then 30. If you are 37, then 40. If you are 19, then 20.

I’m making an assumption we have no 100s and we really shouldn’t have anything less than 20, should we?

Thinking of drawing a histogram.

Em

Erm. . . 80?

 

[Rob_Royale]

Oh, it feels nice to round down. 50 here.

 

[MissPennyLane]

I am not ready to say it out loud yet.... *Hides behind hands and whispers* 30

But I still feel like 20 with no fucking clue what's going on any of the time

 

[ronde]

By decades, I'm now closer to 100 than to birth.

ronde, not AutoCAD but I remember running engineering programs on probably that same version of the Compaq that we called a "luggable." I also remember my college girlfriend's roommate running FORTRAN from data cards and her having to stand in line to load them. I was taking the same class at my university and felt so fortunate that we'd switched over to a real computer network with cool 12" (or was it 10"? Tiny!) monochrome monitors and actual keyboards just before I started as a freshman.

I learned Fortran 4 and SCATRE on an IBM computer the size of a small house. I think I remember it being a 7094. Endless hours on a keypunch machine in the wee hours of the morning because that was the only time you could get on a machine.

 

[Zootonius]

Oh dear, 70.

 

[Zenith77]

40.

Pah on your floppy drives.

My dad had a ZX80 spectrum and we used to load games from audio casette. This basically involved 15-20 minutes of waiting while the machine did it's BwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrppppPPPPPPrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRpppppppp noise, and then a coin-toss as to whether or not it had actually worked.

I remember my mum coming in and saying I'd 'played enough' after an hour, and all I'd done in that time was trying to get the damn thing to load 3 times.

 

[Zootonius]

As I told someone earlier, I remember installing Linux from floppy disks...

Floppies, Bah! The first program I wrote had to be stored on punch tape from a teletype.