If it was Tom's Diner, that song has a special place in digital music history. It was the test song for what became the MP3 standard.

Oh wow! That this came from a non-Queensland kid is extra surprising. Yes, this was the breakfast club. It gave us Agro by the way. Queensland kids knew Agro years before the rest of Australia.

Dang I wish I still had my usbourne programming books. Those little robots carrying 1’s and 0’s while I programmed in basic on the apple ][ were made for this verification.

Edit: my steam account just turned 21. That’s a bit terrifying actually, but it has a use.

Oh ok it was a kids tv show https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/lkzku4/brisbane_tv_from_the_olden_times/

Not from Brisbane so I would never have got that.

we had electric water heater then too. Amazing how many of my mates bussed to my place after school just for a hot shower.

I heard about it but lived in NSW at the time. Got wierdedout at the idea of gas fridges, had never heard of such a thing.

Yea the Longford esso explosion!

That's actually what I was gonna write about lol. I was yr 8 at the time. Had electric hot water so was very popular.

Furry muff. I'll message molly with something about 80s tram tickets or something.

Can you tell her about the Breakfast Club that only 70’s/80’s kids from Queensland would know?

Hang on, is this to do with a free school breakfast program?

I have one old memory of free breakfast being held at my Melbourne primary school but I don’t think it lasted long for us.

Edit: Also does anyone remember the Victorian gas crisis where everyone was taking cold showers?

Consider yourself doxxed 😎

We aren't copping any abuse. Everyone understands that this isn't coming from us and that there is no point hassling us over it.

Shutting the instance down is not on the cards. It means too much to too many people.

Can I use it next?

Haha fair enough! I guess it's not quite as widely spread as I thought.

Haha yeah I know! I was actually watching a streamer (who mostly streams completely unrelated stuff—Photoshopping thumbnails for others' aoe2 YouTube channels) just a few weeks ago, and the topic of Zoombinis came up. She's apparently the moderator of the Zoombinis speedrunning records. Which...is apparently a thing.

What do you mean Lodion and you. I thought Molly was doing the verification!

Well, that's 5 mins of my time I will never get back. Having said that, I've also wasted an hour "talking" to a so-called "customer service" agent on a chat thing today, which was much more frustrating.

Edit - for reference, I pointed to a comment that I made 2 years ago about being alive in the 90s.

Oh, hang on, I read this post when there were not many responses and I thought it was a piss take and had a laugh and moved on.

But coming back, it seems like I do have to send something to this bot? Still not clear what.

I know you're probably getting hassle comments about these laws and policies. I hope everyone on the site appreciates these bullshit hoops you're being made to jump through. You could just shut the site down and be done with it.

Yes, I can confirm I had a birthday at some point between 16 June 2023 and 2 December 2025.

Nah, I don't think that's it. Your comment here constituted more effort than some responses we've received. We don't need much.

We're lucky in Australia in that there's a treasure trove of pop culture from the 20th century in our minds that isn't really on Google. Just talk about Nudge's antics or something. No kid will know who Nudge is, but he was a household name in the 80's. Or maybe Bobby's death and how that affected you? Google "Bobby's death" and you'll get the wrong Bobby.

It's going to come to effort. Do I create a lemmy.whatever account or do I verify? Verification isn't guaranteed and making my own instance is above dad effort territory. Maybe someone will begin a kiwi hosted aussie.zone 😁😁 I appreciate all the effort you guys have gone too though.

I'll have you know that I've had three birthdays since I created my account!

While we have tried to make the verification system as light-touch and unobtrusive as we can, we need to accept that this policy will cost us users. Just as we have no influence on government policy, we have no control on how people will respond to our willingness to obey the law.

I even understand it. If Canada introduced some sort of law that required me to do something I couldn't justify, I'd likely let my lemmy.ca test account lapse. People are going to evaluate their own position from evaluating the variables in front of them. And some of them are going to come down on their Aussie.Zone account not being worth that much to them. Which is totally fine.

Crocodile Dundee came out in 1986. Hoges was huge on TV in the 70's though - the Paul Hogan show ran for years. Fun fact: almost all of the Paul Hogan Show has been lost. It aired before VCRs were a thing and the station lost or over-wrote the original tapes.

croc dundee wasn't the 70's was it? shit, I saw the sequel in cinemas and I was born in 78