The idea for this post started today when I saw in #emacs-til on libera.chat:
- [2026-01-17 22:30:19] TIL emacs is just not for old boomers lol
- [2026-01-17 22:31:53] also for younger boomers
- [2026-01-17 22:33:10] haha that's me!
- [2026-01-17 22:33:17] lil baby baby boomer
- [2026-01-17 23:25:18] the Youth of Today love Emacs
- [2026-01-17 23:25:29] I asked one of them back in... uh...
- [2026-01-17 23:25:31] 1991?
So I did a websearch for the youngest emacs user, and, the websearch results couldn't help but all be about how old emacs users are.
So I ask Lemmy...
Who is the youngest emacs user?
[And no, before anyone thinks otherwise, that image is not real. I just put that together for whimsical illustration, from an image search or 3, with a relevant comment, an image from an article about a 2 year old who self-taught the alphabet, and an image of an emacs welcome screen pasted together with the help of the GIMP.]
Who is the youngest emacs user?
Anyone younger than 40? In 20s? Teens?? Younger??!
I didn't use emacs much until around 2014, but I remember playing the Emacs Adventure around 2006 when I was 11.
Heh. I started using emacs in 2014, when an irc friend who had been using it for a decade were moving parts of their 10 year old config to a new one (iirc, they were moving to org-mode config), and then in 2024, I did the same, moved my 10 year old config over to an org-mode config.
Anyhoo,