alt Hacker News> probably around the same age as the average HN user.
Based on the references and speech patterns I've seen on HN, I think the average HNers is at least a decade older than Pokemon. The first Pokemon videogame only came out in 1996.
Y'all are boomers - nothing wrong with that, but HN has become an older monoculture.
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I don’t think this is true. HN was well known to CS people in my undergrad and I’m barely a millennial.
Agree with this FWIW. The music and movie references here are largely from the 80s. Nostalgia here tends to be rooted in the 80s to the early 90s. This place feels solidly GenX to me which makes sense as the first web-forward generation.
>Y'all are boomers.
i am! but i see a fair amount of people just starting their careers, students, etc. as well. and, based on some of the comments ive seen, i think there is a lot of young folk. most of my students are active, or at least browse, HN. they are mostly 18-20.
i took a wild guess that ~30 would be the average. maybe 35-40 is closer. either way, i think my point stands: 30 years seems too long to be classified as a fad.
10 years older than pokemon isn’t even Gen X, it’s millennial…
People born in 1986 aren't even Gen-X, much less boomers: you are talking about millenials!
Even the youngest boomers are near retirement age now.