[jrockway]

I always like to see how old I can make myself. 1902? (The 2038 problem in reverse.) 1776? 5 B.C.?

My experience is that I can usually only go back to the 1930s.

[__david__]

Ha, I do that as well. They're almost always menus and so I just pick the bottom-most box. Steam thinks I'm 120 years old.

[em-bee]

i wonder though if doing that doesn't risk detection since it's pretty obviously false.

[jrockway]

I am not sure if I care about detection. They will obviously shut down your account if you're too young, but they don't have any legal demand to shut down your account if you're too old, so they probably won't bother.

Most of the places where I see these things are not services like Dropbox where I'm a customer, but for things like alcohol marketing websites. "To view our collection, you must be over 21. Type your age to verify." The law requires them to ban me for being under 21, but doesn't require them to ban me for being "too old", so they probably don't bother. (I imagine the hot topic at meetings is when they provide a year dropdown, what's the oldest year they should add. If the world's oldest person wants to visit their website, that should be allowed.)

[em-bee]

well, they could shut it down for being an obviously fake account.

[lancesells]

Same here. I imagine someone at the company in some meeting: "We've even got a couple users who are in their 90s!"