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120 is my goal. I want to be able to say i can remember the 1900s, 2000s and see what 2100 looks like.
Ain't doing it without scientific help, but there is very very small chance I could get there.
Yes younglings, I remember a time when the internet didn't exist!
Depends on what date you pick to assign to the birth of the internet... RFC 675? Then I am younger, but not by much.
If we listen to Google's AI, "the internet officially began on January 1, 1983, when ARPANET officially adopted the TCP/IP standard" than I am significantly older than the internet.
I don't consider the ARPANET stuff the internet.
It's the precursor. TCP/IP adoption isn't a bad place to consider what is the internet. I think adoption/invention of WorldwideWeb is too late though I could agree to use it as the beginning of what most people think of what started the internet we see today.
I think somewhere in the 80s is accurate, however it doesn't really matter as the internet wasn't suddenly everywhere. It took a LOT of time to reach a lot of places so one can remember what the world was like without the internet, even if it was already around at that time.
I remember when most people didn't have a computer let alone access to a modem of some kind.
uh, have you seen 90?
My grandparents are in their 90s, and still are active. They only stopped skiing in their mid 80s. Genetics plus life choices I suppose.
Yes. I watched my grandmother slide from the strongest person in our family into a barely recognizable shell as she would have me come sit with her and i would have to tell her repeatedly in 5 minute increments that her brain was a asshole and there's nothing she can do but eat well, take care of herself. It didn't matter to the dementia she had. When she was sitting in bed crying on my shoulder telling me that all her friends are dead, she can't remember simple things and so many other batshit crazy things I can't even remember, and all the while, everyday for about 10 years I woke up to check and see if she was a corpse that day.
I'm well well well aware of what 90 can look like.
and you still want to go to 120? you are far, far braver than i. 85 is where i tap out
Look at Dick Van Dyke. Over a 100 and still dancing
I'm gonna see where I am at 85 and decide then. I know some 85 year olds that are still basically completely all there, and some of them gave genetics to me so I'm optimistic
Yes please. I'd really like to see more of my kids' lives, and grandchildren + great-grandchildren if so blessed one day.