People are like "mastodon isn't full of old people" and then tell a personal anecdote about the time some guy catfished 11 women on USENET.

@pencilears Someone just did a poll and 2% of people where under 18 and 45% were over 40

@pencilears tbf, i’m old. but i never catfished anyone on —wait, was it usenet? yes? then okay. no catfishing on usenet.

(that i remember)

@Hikiru willing to bet a lot are over 50. Masto is full of early-internet-adopters

@pencilears millenials are old now

@pencilears @Hikiru I identify with that statement.

55. Took my first programming course in 1983. Was on the internet before it was called the Internet. Bought my first computer in 1991. Installed my cutting edge 1200 baud modem which came with incorrect instructions for IRQ switches, which I figured out anyway, and came with dialup software that was incompatible with it, but I got that working, too.

@skyguided @pencilears I wouldn't call it old, exactly.

(Though I'm not a huge fan of how prominent my eye rings are getting)

@Kyresti @skyguided consider: sleep and adequate nutrition