Fuck, 1901 it is
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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Steam will forever know my age verification to be January 1st, 1900.
I just do 1/1/1 to make it more believable for algorithms that flag suspicious data.
Do they flag January 1, 2000? That's the easiest date for me to remember and maybe for others too
I just flick the scroll wheel once or twice and click a random year. One time, I clicked 2006 and thought I fucked up and would have to do it again but it went through just fine and I had a mental breakdown.
Gotta say, it's what I do lol.
A zoomer once asked me what it was like to grow up in the late 1900s
My godkid said something similar.
Things that I wish web interface devs would just let me type, for God's sake:
- years
- months
- state abbreviations
Just validate the input after I type it in. Don't make me scroll through 50 different states or 100 different years.
Just be thankful they don't make you scroll to your phone number
They often rely on CMS modules and plugins to take care of input like this and those programmers didn't want to have to parse and sanitize the input, they just had to control it completely and fageddubautit
Edit: yeah I was once one of them ...
Looking at you iphone. The little price is right scroller was cute the first time but has been a pain ever since.
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United Kingdom
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Missed the click target.
Now I live in the UAE.
I'm back in the U.S.S.R
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the U.S
Back in the U.S
Back in the U.S.S.R
The thing about this that really absconds with my ovine is that moronic webdevs insist on reinventing the wheel for these input fields in a manner that is inevitably both disrespectful of your screen DPI and/or aspect ratio and also fail to correctly or competently implement shortcuts or keyboard functionality -- or more often, don't even bother to do so at all -- not to mention any of the user's potential accessibility tools. Because web form controls for all of these input fields already exist.
Earth to front end developers: You don't need to do a halfassed job of building a drop down menu box using 3.7 megabytes of jquery and and CSS plus three application frameworks on every page load. Just put that shit in a <select> and let the browser do it for you. Knock it off already.
HTML already includes a perfectly good date picker tag, drop down menus, spinners, radio buttons, and checkboxes.
And if you do insist on reinventing the wheel, if the wheel you're reinventing happens to be a non-searchable drop down menu that doesn't even allow me to type to snap to the first letter of what I'm looking for, let alone the entire target value, I'm afraid I'm going to have to hunt you down and stick your keyboard somewhere you probably don't want it stuck.
just wondering, do you live in the United Arab Emirates?
Properly implemented selection boxes do let you do this and then hit space when you are done typing.
Properly implemented being the key element.
At this point I just unlock my scroll wheel when website devs can't effectively sort years
This is funny because it is true.
Ouch. That hurt!
Yeah, that position would definitely hurt my back... and knees.
And they used Bob barker instead of drew carey. Perfect.
Wow that made me laugh :)
Amen!
George Jetson Syndrome