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From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: age check :)
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On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 at 19:46 SAT, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote:
>
> After seeing a recent article on slashdot, about a new game that's being
> ported to Linux (http://www.linuxpower.org/display_item.phtml?id=65), I
> was curious at the demographics of the FreeBSD userbase, and whether
> we'd have enuf young 'uns to justify a port of similar games in the
> future. Plus, it's interesting to know. :)
> 
> As a quick check, how many people here are between the ages of 16-20,
> 20-25, or 25+?

25+

However, both from my own experience and from statistics I've seen, I believe
that the average age of serious gamers is on the rise.  I suppose that that
can be ascribed to the fact that the first generation of people who grew up
with computers in the home is now reaching the 25+ bracket.

-- V

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