Gemini Age Survey
As this came up in another thread
let's try a small age survey for fun to see, how old the current user group of Gemini and this BBS is. So if you know someone who uses Gemini but isn't aware of this BBS, let that person know so they can take part!
Poll Results
1. under 10
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2. 10 - 20
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3. 20 - 30
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4. 30 - 40
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5. 40 - 50
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6. 50 - 60
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7. 60 - 70
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8. 70 - 80
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9. 80 - 90
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10. 90 - 100
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11. over 100
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120 votes were cast.
#age #gemini 🗳️ #survey
Oct 31 · 6 weeks ago · 👍 freezr, jo, olav, Caleb, A161, uwu, Not4uffinonMobile, bsj38381, baran, curry, kintrix
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Good point. Done. Thanks!
I wonder who the single user younger than 10 is?
Same here, I've mostly hear kids using phones and stuff.
I have some ideas about the identity of the 8-year old (based on total inability to use logic and lack of impulse control)... But it might be just due to low IQ, not age.
wait .. what ? its mostly 30 yos ? teens here are rare ?
My 70-year-old grandmother is happy that she can turn on a computer, let alone use Gemini...
@nana4 thank you for creating the poll!
not that I qualify, but where do people who are exactly a multiple of 10 go, choose the older group?
@gritty Effectively yes. I guess these options are to be understood as "between X and Y".
Assuming floating-point age. 🙂
Yes, exactly. :D
@kendy Tell your friends, change the demographics! :)
40-50 is the age range whose first Internet experience was often text based. Interesting to see that’s the majority of gemini users.
i don't know, but i guess today's teens communicate via text. they type, right? then they read/write microblogs? so many of them that if we measure by number of words it may appear that today's teens don't read less than we did. i think they read even more. imagine someone who was a kid or teen in 80-is or 90-ies.
they had basically one option for reading: books. and not necessarily good books.
other options were tv, movies: not reading or writing.
how many of them wrote diaries? wrote down thoughts in that epistolary way like almost everyone does now?
so i think teens today are not strangers to reading and writing. they just do it by using centralized big tech platforms, apps.
@norayr As a teenager, I agree. But it's different for every teenager. My friend has read maybe one book in his entire life, but he still writes on Discord, so it balances out.
Interesting. This isn't quite the breakdown I expected. Sure, my generation may have had a little bit of Gopher exposure growing up, I was too young to use it seriously at college or whatever.
I guess I did see Gopher in the wild, deployed in a college library for their online card catalog, and other library services, but I was on a field trip in high school at the time.
So I'd expect the 50-60 to be dominant, not my bracket...
@norayr I feel that only applies to the every growing number of chronically online children, as a teen myself I have read a plethora of books - just finished reading one yesterday- but it is also true that theres a lot of online content that many people do read. I am one of the insane people that read all of homestuck and theres a sea of fanfic out there but not many people tend to read quality writing online, which is what seems to be a problem with literacy.
As for my friends i know plenty of people have been reading manga instead of watching anime but thats the only books i’ve seen any of them read
@gdorn Same bracket as you. My Internet experience before 1998 was dial up through a terminal that dumped you into a session running lynx. We lived on gopher and the text based web.
As a high school dropout, I had zero exposure to UNIX and the internet until early Linux distros that took days to download (and pretty much impossible for me to install and maintain, although I tried and failed a few times. Stayed with Windoze XP until finally switching to Linux this century.
I knew about gofer but did not experience it until Lagrange and the Gemini revolution.
Weird, no?
I swear I was using Netscape all the way back on Yggdrasil Linux... must have been 1994? 1995?
You needed an ISP that allowed a TCP/IP connection to make that happen. If you were using terminal dial up you just dropped into a text based connection however the sysadmin set it up.
Ours just let us connect to a session that autostarted lynx and kicked you out if you tried to quit Lynx.
Yeah, my nearest free dialup initially dumped you into a command prompt, from which I figured out how to get a lynx instance on what must have been a VM, even back then. While booting up, it even sent over the BIOS ram test.
But the nearest college had a lab with a couple computers with windows, and they ran Netscape. Must have been about '94?
Ahh crap, who’s the 9 year old that somehow got on here?