To see it take it by such a margin I mean
xp
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
33. First posted on ILX in 2002. First posted on a message board in 1992!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my first message board posting was like 1995. good ole BBS days
― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
saturn returns maaan
― dell (del), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Legend of the Red Dragon!
― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mean: 33.16
that's assuming no lol votes - but even if there are the 2 13s and 2 62s more or less cancel each other out / don't matter
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
1995, me too. BBS'es - had one myself - and dial-up. Times is weird.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i still remember when the closest thing to facebook was people updating their AOL profiles
― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
who else is under 20 besides me & gospodin simmel
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
(3 years ago the mean was 30.599) xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/P9qdj.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
red = 2008 blue = 2011
Previously, no ilxors would own up to being older than I. Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56. The torch has passed to a new gerontation, or so it would seem. Who's up for a bit of shuffleboard?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, too busy chasing kids off my lawn.
― WmC, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
well there's also a good chance that somewhere from 1 to 5 of those were joke votes cause 62 was the new upper limit
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"Gerontation" = shorthand for "Geritol nation."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
damn fellas we officially have an aging population a la europe or a small town in japan.
where is the new blood!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah kinda surprised at the low # of college age posters
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/109772077_fec0a2c4de_z.jpg?zz=1
Ah, the old Wavy Line shops, they all gone / shut now.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
36.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
13-19: 1120-24: 2325-29: 5530-34: 6635-39: 4940-44: 2145-49: 1650-54: 755-59: 260-64: 4
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
In January 2008 I was in the largest ILX age bracket (28), interesting to see if that is still true... Are all those people born in 1979 still around, or have they dropped off and been replaced by young whippersnappers?
― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 12:53 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Seems like my first guess was true. I'm still in the largest bracket, ILX is aging with me. :)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
31, FTW
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
largest bracket = common, right?
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
i still get a fair bit of ~the world~ in in between ilx & studying but sometimes when i'm on too much it really gets to me and i get to feeling like one day i will look back at my youth and be overcome w/ regret. also prob a lot of college students are just on other lame forums & some of them are shy or not that interested in ~the world~
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6T0Dw.jpg
same graph w/ 3 added to the 2008 numbers, interesting how closely some individual peaks/troughs match.
this doesn't 100% imply that ilx has a constant group of users, could also just mean that when people leave they're quite likely to be replaced w/ similar aged users and not teenagers. but I do think you can look at this and think that there's a decent amount of stability in the group of people here. I feel like 31 year olds should consider themselves keepers of the torch.
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
pleased to see i'm roughly in the middle.
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that this is the right thread to confess to--I'm 40, not 42. I changed my birthdate because I wanted to obscure some of the ties to my real name; I was going to lie to everyone about some other things but never got around to it. (Everything else is true. I swear.)
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been on discussion boards since 1989 and here (thanks to rockcritics.com) since 2001.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been alive since 1989
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
you say tomato
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't believe there are really 4 13-year-olds on ILX.
― I just threw some kazoo on this bitch (Whitey on the Moon), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I am a 52-year-old siamese quadruplet.
― richard melville hell (crüt), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's safe to assume that the tail ends of the blue line are jokes
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
where's Aja?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
No one knows.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Aja was reabsorbed into her progenitor.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The ILX poster Aja, yes. (I don't believe either that she posted anything that appeared under her name.) The real Aja, I have no idea.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i am 34, but soon 35.
― hey it's (jel --), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
hey me too!
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56.
I can't remember if I participated in this poll or not (Cue memory joke....) I'm 52.
http://www.kelleytown.com/images/Simpsons/HansMoleman.jpg
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link