How many active teenage roadgeeks do we have on here?

[CoreySamson]

I'm just wondering how many teenagers are here actively posting on this forum. I know there's me, RoadGeekTeen, ozarkman, and STLmapboy, but how many others are there?

[hotdogPi]

noelbotevera

[Ketchup99]

I'm 16 but relatively new

[kphoger]

I'm 16 but relatively new

But you're definitely active.

[ozarkman417]

tolbs17 (not as active as he was previously). There is also Hwy 61 Revisited (relatively new, still active). Both are 17, so long as the ages given are correct.

[Roadgeekteen]

Not sure if he's still active, but there is this solcalkid dude.

[Ben114]

put me on that list

[kphoger]

Not sure if he's still active, but there is this solcalkid dude.

SoCal Kid was last active on 29-AP-2020.

[royo6022]

I'm 19 and haven't posted a lot recently because I've been busy but I'm still pretty active in at least reading updates

[TravelingBethelite]

Joined when I was 15/16 I think. I'm starting to age out of that category...damn already?! Why didn't anyone tell me I turn 20 in a month and a half???

[Roadgeekteen]

A lot of other members joined when they were teenagers, even some who are well into their 20s now.

[KEVIN_224]

Sites like this didn't exist when I was a teen. I'm now 49.

[hotdogPi]

Sites like this didn't exist when I was a teen. I'm now 49.

Usenet began in 1980.

[KEVIN_224]

I didn't even have an e-mail address until October 2000. Thanks AOL!

[Flint1979]

I didn't even have an e-mail address until October 2000. Thanks AOL!

I'm the same way. I'm 41 and didn't have the internet until I was 20.

[michravera]

I didn't even have an e-mail address until October 2000. Thanks AOL!

I'm the same way. I'm 41 and didn't have the internet until I was 20.

<old crotchety man voice>Back when I was a teen, the internet was what we used to separate the sides in volleyball</crotchety old man voice>

Seriously, the system that connected terminals from remote campus locations to the computer in the science building my pre-freshman year had a rocker switch that let you pick between 55 and 110 baud. The 55 baud was to connect via dial-up to the main computer in Northridge. 300 baud was quite an improvement. Some direct-connects in the science building to the local computer could go 1200. The staff pulled cables to more locations on campus by my grad school years, so on campus you could do 2400 or 4800, (or rarely 9600, but the direct printers couldn't handle that speed) but dial up from off campus was still at 300 (or rarely 1200).

[KEVIN_224]

Look up Dana Carvey's angry old man character from SNL. Occasionally popped up during Weekend Update. "Progress? Fligitty-FLOO!"

October 2000. I think me and my brother started with AOL Version 3.0. Had an old Packard Bell desktop computer. The local access number was dialed from either Southington or closer to Hartford. I was 29 years old.

Just imagine people trying to do the remote social distancing nonsense if it were 1990!

[jmacswimmer]

Look up Dana Carvey's angry old man character from SNL. Occasionally popped up during Weekend Update. "Progress? Fligitty-FLOO!"

Not gonna lie, at first glance I just saw "Dana Carvey" and "SNL" in the same sentence and instinctively thought of the Church Lady before reading the full sentence and realizing you were describing a different character

[GaryV]

I wonder how many sedentary teenage roadgeeks we have on here.  Or sedentary roadgeeks of any age, for that matter.   

[Roadgeekteen]

I wonder how many sedentary teenage roadgeeks we have on here.  Or sedentary roadgeeks of any age, for that matter.   

I'm kinda sedentary.

[Hwy 61 Revisited]

Joined in January, turned 17 in May.

[Katavia]

Haven't been on AARoads in quite some time. Recently drove to Spruce Pine NC and back... the long way around. Age to the left.

[STLmapboy]

I was on here a lot around age 11 (hadn't joined, just lurking). There seemed to be far fewer teenage roadgeeks than there are now (and more older DOT employees, though this is purely anecdotal).

[hotdogPi]

I was on here a lot around age 11 (hadn't joined, just lurking). There seemed to be far fewer teenage roadgeeks than there are now (and more older DOT employees, though this is purely anecdotal).

Early in the forum's life, one person was banned for being under 13. This has not been a rule for a long time. (The ban was set to expire on the member's 13th birthday, so he/she is unbanned now.)

[noelbotevera]

noelbotevera

Yo.

Joined May 2015, a month after my 11th birthday. Guess there's been a changing in the guard (older folk becoming less active, replaced with younger folk).