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Iām old enough to do the groaning thing when I have to bend with my knees.
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Iām twenty, but Iām generally assumed to be a few years older since apparently my short hair makes me look mature. When itās just my voice people regularly think Iām a child though, especially when Iām nervous
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I knew it! Youngest person party, woooooooooo!!! 
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Me when I was in this One Piece forum in sixth grade 
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Turning 30 in December so just on the cusp of 26-30!
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Youāll have to re-do your vote after that just to keep the stats accurate then! /j
Edit: wait no thatās not right. ignore me. itās time for me to get that sleep Iāve been avoiding since 2 hrs ago
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Not the oldest, not the oldest, not the oldest
(does a little dance)
At work I am one of the longest serving members of staff (Iāve been here over 20 years) and there are two teachers here who were not born when I started teaching 25 years ago. My year group colleague is marrying one of my ex-pupils (and today told me that another one has had a baby). Children of previous pupils are now coming through the school.
Conversely, at church I am one of the youngest members (itās a bit of a problem really). Most of the congregation are in their 70s and above!
So depending on the day of the week I can be feeling young and vital or old and decrepit. This place usually causes the latterā¦
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Youāve still got over a year left in that group!
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You were right originally!
Next group up starts at 31 (I did specifically so there wasnāt any overlap
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Know how you feel. Before I started wearing a mask full time due to the pandemic Iād regularly get mistaken for a high schooler lol. Like one time I mentioned I recently graduated and the hair dresser asked me what uni I was going to when in fact Iād literally just graduated from uni. For the second time (from a bachelors and then did an honours year)
Then when I went back to uni 2+ years later (the more I learned about PhDs the less I wanted to do one. Absolutely no job security in academia) Iād give people whiplash when theyād do a double take when Iād mention having done a previous degree bc they assumed I was straight out of high school lmao
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Also to continue the My First Computer conversation from the Bluesky thread that got wildly off topic, Iām pretty sure mine was this one (well, the Family Computerā¢ļø)
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My first computer was a Commodore 64!
(We didnāt have the monitor, used to have to hook it up to the family TV)
Technically we had a āVIC-20ā which I think was older but I never really used it.
I remember playing games on this thing, we used a tape deck and it took about 10 minutes to load a game. If youāre lucky, the game had a mini-game which you played while it loaded 
I used to learn programming in BASIC and even made my own text-adventure games! Yes I was coding from a very early age!
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I did that too on the BBC Micro. I had a book about designing your own text adventure game and it had a full code in the back which I painstakingly typed into the computer (with no option to save and come back to it if I remember rightly!)
ETA: This was the book!
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I think Iāve posted a picture of the book of text adventure games I had here before. Always loved them. I also had the āLost Treasures of Infocomā collection with, not all, but most of Infocomās games in it, later on. (And I own āLeather Goddessās of Phobosā separately, because it wasnāt in the collection, and I saw it in a, er, charity shop once, I think.)
I remember one game in the Rainbow Book of Adventures very specifically, Dr. Avaloe. āYou have died a horrible death. I hope you had fun, though.ā
Iām also into retro computing and emulation, so Iāve seen videos about most of these computers, and often fired up an emulator. There are channels dedicated to people taking old computers they rescued from the trash or ebay or other places and fixing them up, and I find it fascinating (and often good background noise.).
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Oh, also, Iāve read up on Inform 6 and Inform 7, programming languages specifically for programming text adventures that compile to run on the Z-Machine, Infocomās virtual machine, and tried coding in them a little. Inform 7 is interesting and very unlike 6 in that itās almost plain englishā¦
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Yeah, @shauny - youāre showing our age again!
My friend across the street and fellow Who obsessive had the Commodore 64 as his first computer. My dad opted to get the Franklin Ace 1000. If one is wondering what that is, it was a clone of the Apple II+. 64K baby! Those were the days.
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It was bugging me that the old mac mini I had laying around wasnāt hooked up, so I cleared off a little fold up table and hooked it up.
Iād actually intended it to be a little media computer hooked up opposite my exercise bike, then I rearranged things and it kinda never got hooked back up in the shuffle and wasnāt opposite the bike any more.
Iāve used plenty of Apple II+/eās before, but I donāt think Iāve used a clone.
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A relevant clip.
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