• fenrasulfr
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Wait since when was 42 a meme for millenials? I must have missed a lot of internet culture.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      3 hours ago

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

      Millennials had 420.

      • fenrasulfr
        3·
        1 hour 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.

        • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 hour 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.

      • lambipapp
        4·
        2 hours ago

        As a millennial, 1337, 42 and 420 is deeply embedded in my brain as funny numbers

    • groet@feddit.org
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Movie or TV series. 42 is the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”

      • fenrasulfr
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Thank you for the info. I have never watched Hitchhikers guide so that would be why I do not have a reference for it.

        • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 hour ago

          I hadn’t read or watched it yet it I knew the reference. It was bigger than the source material. It helped popularize it.