you might have seen the first iteration of this poll elsewhere on this platform, but because i didn't specifically declare that i specifically was focusing this poll on THIS community, i suppose i can't complain too loudly that it found a new home on a different subcategory?

Anywho, without further ado, i am curious to know what age you all might identify as?

also - it appears the poll software randomized the order of choices (if you happen to wonder why the age brackets don't run sequentially...)

'tha fuck outta here with your AOL shit. I started with dial-up BBS's and then had a sprintNET connection to the internet.

Berr bip, berrrr beeeeeerreerr..... . Welcome to AOL. You have mail.

Sigh, I remember the days of private messaging on AOL, getting an AOL CD in literally every magazine and through the post twice a week.

Almost as bad as me loading Donkey Kong onto my Spectrum with a WH Smith's cassette recorder .... I/O error... turn the volume up a bit.

Tara xx

BBS as well, then Delphi, followed by Netcom, then ultimately DSL (which was a whopping 256k in the mid 90s)

Oh man I had Delphi at one point too. And netcom was my fist SLIP then later PPP dialup connection. Didn't get DSL until 1999 as it wasn't readily available in my part of Ohio but was when I moved to AZ. In fact for a little extra US-WEST would let you get an 8bit subnet with forward and reverse resolution authority over your IPs. That was when I learned the magic of Bind/Apache/PHP on OpenBSD 2.8

I first rocked Prodigy where there were email programs setup so that you connected did a mass send and receive so you were not replying while online, using word perfect 5.1 (the blue screen) on an IBM 8088.

and a future composition will share my observations with my personal wetlook journey, but no way to know when i might get around to typing it out...

Where is option 1?

NERDS! all of you!

Full disclosure... i *MIGHT* have been right there with all of you? 1993-1996 i had nearly zero internet activity while serving in the military. 1997 returned to finish college and got spoiled with the high-speed that was available to me. I briefly experienced AOL dial up ONCE OR TWICE... OMFG... (did i mention i got spoiled with high-speed starting in 1997?)

and wow, suddenly i found i wasn't the only weirdo walking the planet...

i was curious if anyone would claim to be less than 18 years old (that was option 1), but apparently i am not allowed to even ask about that?

but kinda' makes sense anyhow...

I love this thread

That's the official policy yes, and in a lot of ways it makes sense to me as well.

i looked at it similar to night clubs where underage people try to sneak in. It won't affect me if 1 or 100 underage minors signs up and posts or does whatever, but i wouldn't want to have the police coming after me for prosecution of the same...

interesting, thanks for that link! (i've gotten busy recently, so it looks to be a while before i properly peruse that entire thread!)

thanks for that link!

wow... that poll had A LOT more responses than mine. I'm not tryin to hate on the other poll, just ONE observation of the difference between that poll and this one.

I wonder why the numbers are SO different? (yet i probably will never know that answer completely.) Could the time of the year have been a factor? Are there simply WAY more followers of the Messy subject as compared to wetlook followers?

Why do i care to question that? (answer: i have been pursuing the answer to EVERYTHING for the better part of my adult life... "42" is but ONE suggestion!)

the other question is of particular interest to me - because i can look back and see how my participation with WAM has evolved over my lifetime so far...

anyone else have a chance to read over the attached link?

just to make sure i can still post to this thread... (or else i could always start a new thread..?)