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[–] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My great-grandmother was born in 1896 and I helped her set up an eBay account around 1997. She eventually died in 2002 at the age of 105.

She also owned a rifle catalogue from the 1890s or 1900s that I'm 100% certain was used as the basis for the gun catalogue menu in Red Dead Redemption 2. My great-meemaw was from legit cowboy times.

My grandfather was a ham radio nerd and an early adopter of the Prodigy ISP in the 1980s. He was born in the 1920s and had some kind of FidoNet email address in the 1980s. He still had it up until around 2012 when he died.

My great-grandfather on the other side of the family apparently had an ARPANET account since he was an army psychiatrist and would update some kind of database with punch cards or something? I'm not sure how old he was exactly, but based on my grandma's age he was probably born in the 1910s or 00s, since he was a trained and established psychiatric MD by the time of WW2. And he used the early predecessor to the internet.

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This post is kind of a self doxx.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess I don't mind. I'm already known in the local leftist circles and I'm probably on some employer blacklist for trying to unionize so much

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Time, am I right? When the boomers were reaching adulthood, there were still living freedmen who were born into slavery.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

see this is why i want to live as long as possible. i want to see the world where horses and buggies for us are the equivalent of an N64 in the future.

the future is gonna be very interesting. i want to see as much as possible, and you should too.

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I'm optimistic about having kids. They can donate their youthful plasma to me for anti-aging medical interventions

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if that were true i'd be popping those little fountains of youth out like i was an evangelical christian.

harvesting the young is the sign of a healthy society, right?

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Ones Who Run Enthusiastically Towards Omelas

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omelas is a Utopia compared to our society tbh

[–] AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Imagine only torturing one child...

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you considered eating nothing but steamed kale and making your son into a blood boy?

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

we're past that i think, since processing power was geometric while car shit wasn't.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Well.

It'll certainly be interesting.