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Comment by profsummergig | Hacker News Reader

I was thinking: "an entire article about a guy who used to tan at a hotel pool... when we start focusing on such trifles, it's usually a foreshadowing of some major upheaval coming."

Then I saw the year of publication: 1993.

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I wonder how much of the HN readership was not even born then....?

Probably a decent number. I first heard of HN around 2010 when I was in university.

I assume that plenty of university students find their way to HN still. And that many of them will have been born around the mid-2000’s.

I only barely make the cut myself to having been born a few years before 1993.

One of the nice things about HN is the wide age range of the participants. I have read interesting and thoughtful comments from people who said they were high school students all the way through to people a decade or more older than me (I'm sixty-seven).

Can confirm. Recent graduate who found HN during my second year at university.

That's good! Do your friends know about / use HN?

(Sorry for conscripting you as a guinea pig but it's hard to get this kind of info!)

Person born in 2000 here. My friends and colleagues at university generally don't know about HN.

Have told a few people about it but the only person I really converted into also becoming a regular reader is my dad. It's good because now whenever we see each other we have a lot of topics and stuff to discuss that we both read about here.

HN is officially a dad site now.

OTOH, I first read the article when it ran in 1993.

I’d reckon that the trifles got to getting truffled around 20 years prior.

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