• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    11 hours ago

    That’s from hitchhiker’s guide, probably more a gen X thing.

    Millennials had 420.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        8 hours ago

        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.

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        9 hours ago

        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.

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          8 hours ago

          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.