Age of the doom9 population

[FranceBB]

Good morning, encoders.
Some of my old colleagues are getting ready for retirement and it made me wonder what the average age of the doom9 "population" (users) is and whether there's been a generational change during the years or not.

[StainlessS]

I'm not telling ! ( cheeky young scamp ).

[filler56789]

I was born in 1963, so I can say you are much too young :p

[Sparktank]

I didn't really get into computers until the late 90's / early 2000's. I should have put more focus into C++ learning rather than looking up things on youtube.

[tebasuna51]

Go to the record: 1951

[Groucho2004]

00001957

[Groucho2004]

I'm not telling !Go on, tell us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDVCWKx0hIM

[chros]

1973, just right after the fake moon landings and 13 years before Chernobyl :D

[StainlessS]

Is this one multi-choice ?

Go on, tell us.
2 before you. [EDIT: Years or Options, not saying which. ]

[Groucho2004]

Glad to see that there are still some old farts lingering around here.

By the way, here's Old Fart Axiom #1:
If you find yourself waking up in the morning without any pain, you know you're dead.

Feel free to add to the list.

[kempodragon]

I was born in '66, started on computers in 1980, still learning today.

[Groucho2004]

1973, just right after the fake moon landings and 13 years before Chernobyl :DSo how come you voted the 40s as your birth decade?

[chros]

So how come you voted the 40s as your birth decade?
:) Isn't it? :)

[Groucho2004]

:) Isn't it? :)Right, I failed to take into account the temporal displacement caused by nuclear reactor failures and fake moon landings. :cool:

[StainlessS]

Yep, chros is officially the venerable elder amongst us [seems to think he's in his forties, poor ol' sole. Click the '1' in vote count column for the 1940's].

I was born in '66.

Arh, the year of the glorious World Cup, remember it well.

EDIT: Well, seems that Wonkey_Monkey aint quite the ol' fart that I thought he was. Go figure https://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/froehlich/a065.gif

[videoh]

Isn't it? That's how Indian people talk. Are you Indian? I lived there for 4 years...and survived!

[GillesH]

MCMXLVI.avs
This script is too old ... but it still works.

[StainlessS]

I note that feisty2 was lurking around (again) earlier tonight, maybe the young fella could add his half-pence to the vote, make it
seem less one sided and not wholly ol' farts like EDIT: Groucho.

EDIT: I kinda miss feisty2, bit of a pain (a bit hi-maintenance what with all that head patting stuff), but I still miss him, come back feisty, we is missin' U.

[ EDIT: how did the exams go(thesis or whatever that thing is) ? OK ?]

[Sparktank]

EDIT: I kinda miss feisty2, bit of a pain (a bit hi-maintenance what with all that head patting stuff), but I still miss him, come back feisty, we is missin' U.

this.

Chromaconstructor needs an update.

I bet he's off in The Matrix doing all sorts of Deep Learning.

[stax76]

stax records went bankruptcy in the year I was born. :)

[chros]

That's how Indian people talk. Are you Indian? I lived there for 4 years...and survived!

:D No, from Europe.

stax records went bankruptcy in the year I was born. :)

Hence the name :D

[chros]

So how come you voted the 40s as your birth decade?
Oh, because I'm an idiot, I haven't read the question :)

[Emulgator]

Berlin wall was built, 007 showed up, then me. Lots to clean up ;-)

[chros]

Berlin wall was built, 007 showed up, then me. Lots to clean up ;-)
:D It's already happened to the first, hopefully not to the rest :D

[johnmeyer]

I thought I'd be the oldest (Truman was president when I was born), but I see there are quite a few who are older.

I haven't done any programming using roman numerals, like Giles, however. You have to be really old to have used that stuff. However, I do occasionally find myself looking for the punch cards and paper tape to enter my programs, so some of my skills are pretty archaic.

[GillesH]

I do not remember if Julius Caesar was president when I was born.
But whether you are young or old, the main thing is to be passionate.
Just like you, John, and all those who give their knowledge on this forum.
Thanks again.

[feisty2]

I note that feisty2 was lurking around (again) earlier tonight, maybe the young fella could add his half-pence to the vote, make it
seem less one sided and not wholly ol' farts like EDIT: Groucho.

EDIT: I kinda miss feisty2, bit of a pain (a bit hi-maintenance what with all that head patting stuff), but I still miss him, come back feisty, we is missin' U.

[ EDIT: how did the exams go(thesis or whatever that thing is) ? OK ?]

it takes time and shitload of work to get a PhD offer from a top tier grad school (I aint telling either lol) in north America (wait a sec, that actually gives away the location cuz u don't go to mexico for education and u don't ever refer to the US as "north America").

[StainlessS]

So feisty, Is you is or is you aint my baby ?

Come back, nearly all is forgiven, really.

[kempodragon]

Stainless, that line really shows your age!! Most of these young whippersnappers probably don't know who sang that song or what famous cartoon character covered it.

[StainlessS]

Yip, Feisty probably thinks it was Eminem, and Scooby-doo.

[FranceBB]

Stainless, that line really shows your age!! Most of these young whippersnappers probably don't know who sang that song or what famous cartoon character covered it.

It does indeed!
I had no idea what that was about either until I googled it:

"Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby is a 1944 Louis Jordan song, released as the B-side of a single with "G.I. Jive". "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" reached #1 on the US folk/country charts. The song appeared in the Tom and Jerry cartoon Solid Serenade and sung by Ira Woods as Tom Cat on the cello."

I mean... 1944? Not only I wasn't even born, but my parents weren't either! (My mother was born in 1964).
You could potentially be my grandpa! XD
And I gotta say that I didn't expect that giving how active you are as encoder here on doom9 and how many things you do (including all the plugins you make). :)

[BetA13]

one Word: "The 80´s where the BEST" :)

anyway, pretty interessting to see most people are over 30 and Older here.. kinda makes me feel not so old :)
also, who is the one born in the 30´s ?? Are you for real? If so, RESPECT SIR!!

cheers

[StainlessS]

also, who is the one born in the 30´s

Click on the "1" in population count in the 30s row. [EDIT: And see post #22]

EDIT: And the version of the song I was referencing was by Louis Armstrong, ie the great Satchmo.
[Satchmo apparently refers to 'satchel mouth', because of his very large mouth.]