Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of “I remember”-type responses, so I have to wonder.

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Another gen-z dude here 🙋🏼‍♂️

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Nice! Did you experience the CD era at all, or were you straight into MP3s?

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More like both, i always had a little cd collection, but it was mostly self-burned from mp3s my dad bought off iTunes. I also had a early-ish mp3 player at some point.

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I’m approaching the top of the hill.

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What was your first machine?

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A Packard Bell Legend 486. Can’t recall the exact model.

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Worry not I am also a fellow Zoomer.

I always enjoyed retro technology either because I didn’t use to get the latest stuff right away or because there’s a certain charm to it that still grabs my interest.

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Oh yeah? Are you a big retro gamer then?

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I’m on the younger side (not sure what the category cutoffs are) and I have the same reason. It started with me getting stuff that I wanted to try as a kid, then it went from there

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Old enough to have bought a new C64 from Toys R Us

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I’m in my 20s. I got into retro computing because I used older (Windows 95) computers my parents handed down to me when I was a child and things got cemented and I started looking at even older tech when I started watching YouTube videos covering retro computing.

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Alright! It’s kind of similar for me, I grew up playing among old towers in our basement, and I still have a supply of retro stuff handed down to me, if I can catch it. I love seeing problems solved in different ways, or even the same way but visibly in old hardware. Today it’s all buried under the higher layers of abstraction, and the the other end of gen Z hasn’t even used a filesystem necessarily, let alone had to think about the physical layer.

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