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For a young teenager back then those were hard. For a mid-late 20 year old today they're still hard. I wonder what sort of questions one would ask to implement
by manfredo 8y ago
For a young teenager back then those were hard. For a mid-late 20 year old today they're still hard.
I wonder what sort of questions one would ask to implement such a age verification scheme these days. Ask, "what does AOL stand for?" or, "which one of the following audio clips is 'the dial-up tone'?". Or how about "what is a 'hanging-chad'?". Heck that last one doesn't even work anymore, there are 18 years today born after the 2000 election... I'm getting old.
Although I guess Google and widespread internet adoption has rendered this kind of age verification useless.
- codetrotter 8y agoI know the answer to the first two of those, but I have never heard about a “hanging-chad”. Is that something people from outside of the US (as I myself am) would be likely to know? Even AOL, which I happen to know about is something I think few people in my country would be likely to know. These questions strike me then as not purely relating to age but also to culture. And even the dial-up tone question could be difficult for some people to answer. We had dialup at my child home but not everyone did. And like you said, most questions can be Googled anyway.
- manfredo 8y agoHanging chad is a reference to disputed ballots in to 2000 presidential election, Hence my reference to the year 2000 [1]. Definitely yes, these are questions about culture rather than age and is more specific to Americans. The same applies to the original Leisure Suite Larry age questions [2]. My post was intended to be more humorous than practical. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) 2. http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...