420 goes farther back than millennials. It was just more counter/sub culture and those who knew, knew. It just became common lexicon with the millennials.
Considering how insular internet culture was back in the 2000’s, let alone the 90’s when very few had access to the internet. It does not surprise me I missed this meme.
Wait since when was 42 a meme for millenials? I must have missed a lot of internet culture.
It’s older than millenials, but widely known. And not really a “meme” like 420, 69 or 67. It was a chill meme.
That’s from hitchhiker’s guide, probably more a gen X thing.
Millennials had 420.
420 goes farther back than millennials. It was just more counter/sub culture and those who knew, knew. It just became common lexicon with the millennials.
As a millennial, 1337, 42 and 420 is deeply embedded in my brain as funny numbers
I am sure that ddpends on whether you were born in the 80’s or 90’s as a millenial. But thanks for the info.
Yeah 420 and 69 would be more of the meme numbers to me at least.
I had to pick a custom port number for a service at work, I usedport 42069. My boss never realized and it’s still there.
I was born in the 90s and 42 was a meme number for me. But I was aware it was part of nerd culture. Definitely not something known by most.
Considering how insular internet culture was back in the 2000’s, let alone the 90’s when very few had access to the internet. It does not surprise me I missed this meme.
HHGTTG was released at the end of the 70s so definitely a GenX thing.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Movie or TV series. 42 is the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”
Thank you for the info. I have never watched Hitchhikers guide so that would be why I do not have a reference for it.
I hadn’t read or watched it yet I knew the reference. It was bigger than the source material. It helped popularize it.
Maybe I was just on the wrong side of the internet at the time the meme was popular.