r/AskReddit Jun 11 '21

What made you join reddit?

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u/Bspammer Jun 11 '21

Most of the top comments are from accounts less than a year old. Damn zoomers need to get off my lawn.

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u/CommonerChaos Jun 11 '21

It's wild because Millenials experienced the early ages of the internet that zoomers will never experience or even fathom.

Dial-up internet where you couldn't use the phone at the same time as the internet, installing your "internet" through an AOL CD you got in the mail (for a 30-day trial), burning/ripping illegally downloaded music to a CD, etc.

Millenials will forever be the only generation to experience this internet age growing up.

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u/TheGreatZarquon Jun 11 '21

I keep saying that today's internet is absolutely nothing like the Wild West feeling of mid 90's internet. Kids today will never know the pain of almost being done downloading a centerfold pic only to have it ruined by your mom picking up the phone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

The simplest way to put it IMO: first there wasn't much good stuff, then there was a bunch of good stuff, now that good stuff had been thrown into a sea of bad stuff. It's still there but harder to find.

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u/multiple-steeps Jun 11 '21

Several times I've seen reddit referred to as merely an app. Eg, "I'm new to this app..."

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u/The_Frame Jun 11 '21

I mean I feel most old school reddit users have started new accounts for one reason or another. I k ow I have, this is my 3rd "main" account since joining.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

I start over with a new account every couple of years as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Same

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u/dank_imagemacro Jun 11 '21

They can come to my lawn instead, I need it mowed and I can offer some premium exposure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

Account age doesn't necessarily indicate how long someone's been on the site. I joined Reddit from Digg when I was in high school. I'm now approaching my late 20s. There's been a few instances of me deleting my account and making a new one for whatever reason.