Keyboard enthusiast age structure

[kbdfr]

[…] I'm far older than most of you folks, I'll be 60 at the end of August […]

Youngsters are always welcome

[keyboard Kultist]

Thanks Grampa

[fohat]

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.

[vometia]

I feel young again!

[mr_a500]

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.

[Muirium]

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!

[vometia]

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."

[Muirium]

"that's something we can buy from China because we have no idea how to do it."

Sounds like making keyboards.

[kbdfr]

Time to bump this thread again. Please enter your year of birth!

[Scarpia]

Ok I’ll bite. 1982

[Muirium]

Dear 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)

[Bjerrk]

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.

[Muirium]

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.

[Bjerrk]

I'll go with Linux. I'm older than a penguin.

[depletedvespene]

Dear 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)

Should we be relieved that you didn't refer us to Arkell vs. Pressdram for any subsequent comments?

[fohat]

You sir are an incorrigible data miner

at the penalty of my bunched knickers

you invite voluntary contributions

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.

[Go-Kart]

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.

[Bjerrk]

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.

Or that a healthy appreciation of vintage keyboard technology is a shortcut to wisdom and maturity. I choose to believe that.

Excuse me while I say my nursery rhymes.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round ....

[Go-Kart]

Or even a healthy function of the two.

...with keyboards comes wisdom!

[Muirium]

Buy one, get one half price.

[derzemel]

Buy one, get one half price.

which is which? nobody knows

[Muirium]

Least of all us wiseguys.

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