Comment on Late 1900s

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Funny how time works.

  • 1995 was ten years ago.
  • 1997 was three years ago.
  • Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
  • 2010 was 10 years ago.
  • 2016 was two years ago.
  • 2018 was two years ago.
  • 2019 was one year ago.
  • 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
  • 2021-2022 didn’t happen.
  • 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
  • 2024 still hasn’t ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
  • 2025 takes place in the 1960s, rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can still hear the dialup tone in my brainnnnnnn

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My tinnitus can negotiate a V.92 handshake.

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    • grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      were it not so sad… that’d be impressive…

      nrmally tinnitus is a constant sine wave right? I’m lucky that mine is only audible at a noise floor of “super quiet” (my dB meter crapped out on me a while back and I’ve not had the money to replace it sadly)

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      • brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        can confirm that it’s a constant sine wave, at least for me.

        i blew myself up by accident a month ago, and while my left ear has fully recovered my right one wasn’t so lucky. lost all hearing above like 10kHz (which isnt really noticeable, especially with my left ear still being good on frequencies), and i also now have some very minor tinnitus there. ironically if i had to guesstimate the frequency of my tinnitus it would be around 12 kHz, which is past my hearing range, though it can change briefly because of external stimuli.

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      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Good news is that if dial-up tinnitus is real, my other comment was only plausible by lucky coincidence. Got a little of the standard variety like what you’re talking about (just enough to make me care about good PPE moving forward) and thought it’d be an interesting consequence of tech exposure for old geeks.

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I finally was able to readjust my brain into believing 1995 was longer than 10 years ago. I’m now convinced it was 20 years ago.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is borderline acceptable.

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• Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I first played Doom in 1995. And SimCity 2000. It indeed feels like 10 years ago.

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• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was born in 96. I’ll be turning 30 next year

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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Damn, I’ve got the heaviest drinking pattern of any 10 year old you ever seen then.

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Since this was true when I was in primary school, it’ll always be seared into my brain. I mean, I realized this when I was learning to count and spell, of course it’s saved as one of the most basic facts of life. Like, 4+4=8, 90s are 10 years ago 70s are 30 years ago etc was stuff learned at the same time, so it’s like it’s saved in a similar way.

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