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    Curiosity question for the EB team: What’s the range of your ages? When picturing the EB team, are we to think of a bunch of gray-haired, bespectacled college professors? Or a group of gum-chewing computer geeks? Or something in between and far less stereo-typed?
    Just kidding, but I am interested in your answers. Who’s the oldest? Who’s the youngest?
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    Though I'm not actually a Team Member, I can easily say that I am one of the youngest people to have worked on/with EB: 15.
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    I'm a gum-eschewing computer geek.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodotos I
    Curiosity question for the EB team: What’s the range of your ages? When picturing the EB team, are we to think of a bunch of gray-haired, bespectacled college professors? Or a group of gum-chewing computer geeks? Or something in between and far less stereo-typed?
    Just kidding, but I am interested in your answers. Who’s the oldest? Who’s the youngest?

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    My best guess is that we have had a 14 year old at some point in the past but right now it's probably 16 years (as the youngest). Our oldest is probably going to be late 30's, but I'm not sure. We had a big group of early thirtysomethings and late twentysomethings, but now I'm not so sure of the distribution (we have had a lot of new members come on board for EB2 work in the last two months). Only a few are teens, most are probably in 20's and 30's, and if anyone is in 40's they don't mention it often. Probably a good bell curve with an average of 27 or so if I had to guess.

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    Oldest is at least 34.

    When I joined I was 17.
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    Oh, wow. A balloon from the great Teleklos. Yay! I can't believe no one ever asked this before. Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
    Oldest is at least 34.

    When I joined I was 17.
    And how long ago did you join?
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    It's crazy to think that at least one member has spent 1/5th of his life as an EB member.

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    Just over a year ago, following the beta testing rite; following some rather well preserved public EB WIP thread on these fora...

    Not that much of it is now part of the 'state of the art' () but hey, if you are a bit clever you can find out.
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    Wasn't Edyzmedieval one of the younger chaps? Not sure how old he was when he joined. I was one of the younger members to. I was just 16 when I joined. And that was almost 3 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodotos I
    When picturing the EB team, are we to think of a bunch of gray-haired, bespectacled college professors? Or a group of gum-chewing computer geeks?
    Or? I am bespectacled, was once a (temporary) assistant professor, and now make a living as a computer geek.
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    At average we're not really that old. Historians tend to write a lot, and in a somewhat more artistically liberated vernacular, so it enhances the idea of some grumpy old moustache-man with a straw-hat and old imperial British safari garb speaking as historians stereotypically do. In 1st of June I'm turning 25, so there you have it, not precisely geriatric, and still very much into booze, broads and bacon.


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    I'm 16 and joined a little more then 5 months ago. To be honest, although I never inquired, I assumed most of the other members where in there 20's and I was one of the few people in their teens.
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    Well, as of today I'm 30!
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    19 for me
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    I'm not a team member, but I'm younger than the Earth and older than my cat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dhampir
    I'm not a team member, but I'm younger than the Earth and older than my cat.
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    Has nobody ever told you "never ask a girl her age"?
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    So the EB team are really girls?
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    No, we're lumberjacks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bovi
    No, we're lumberjacks.
    "...and hang around in bars"?

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    I wanna be a real boy!!!!!!!!(LOL)

    Here is me's a 24 year old mannnnnn!!!!!



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    i bet i am among the oldests... but that is good, im happy there was not internet madness thing when i was a teenager...

    (anyway this year i reached the age of christ)

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    41 years old, should i really be admitting that

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    I think you win the prize Goth!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goth47
    41 years old, should i really be admitting that
    I would expect you to be six years older...

    Well I am 29 years old - so somewhere slightly above the average.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atilius
    Or? I am bespectacled, was once a (temporary) assistant professor, and now make a living as a computer geek.
    I was deliberately using stereotypes. I figured anyone bright enough to help create the EB masterpiece would be a better-rounded human being.
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    Our oldest was actually in his early 50s. He retired from EB to focus on his real job ;)

    Youngest, I would probably guess 16. I don't think I've worked with all that many young members though. I would guess our median age is 26.
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