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Post by West on Jun 2, 2016 2:04:35 GMT -5
Well you never had social media in your day Tim nor smartphones or tablets so your generation didn't worry about those types of things. You communicated better whether it was via land phone or face value and did more physically active things same with me growing up in the 80's and early 90's. I never had a mobile phone till I left school aged 16 and even then 1996 Facebook and Twitter were unheard of. It was Myspace and Bebo back then when message forums were more widely used obviously although I didn't really become internet active till 2005 actually. My generation was on the border when social media was just out or I just left high school when it came out around 2005/06. So forums were big when i was growing up at 13 onwards in the early 2000s. I got my first phone at 13 and computer at 12. So i feel glad i got a decent childhood technology free. Floppy discs and videos were still big even for me entering high school in early 2000s. So you can my generation got a true taste of everything going old school technology to new school technology. Most kids my age growing up in the 90s had no computers still period and their parents themselves had none or a mobile phone still. I communicated via landline to my friends as a kid as did my parents still until my mum got het first phone in early 2000s. So i suppose my generation was the transition period to the new school way of technology. |
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Post by StoryGirl83 on Jun 2, 2016 9:29:14 GMT -5
Well you never had social media in your day Tim nor smartphones or tablets so your generation didn't worry about those types of things. You communicated better whether it was via land phone or face value and did more physically active things same with me growing up in the 80's and early 90's. I never had a mobile phone till I left school aged 16 and even then 1996 Facebook and Twitter were unheard of. It was Myspace and Bebo back then when message forums were more widely used obviously although I didn't really become internet active till 2005 actually. My generation was on the border when social media was just out or I just left high school when it came out around 2005/06. So forums were big when i was growing up at 13 onwards in the early 2000s. I got my first phone at 13 and computer at 12. So i feel glad i got a decent childhood technology free. Floppy discs and videos were still big even for me entering high school in early 2000s. So you can my generation got a true taste of everything going old school technology to new school technology. Most kids my age growing up in the 90s had no computers still period and their parents themselves had none or a mobile phone still. I communicated via landline to my friends as a kid as did my parents still until my mum got het first phone in early 2000s. So i suppose my generation was the transition period to the new school way of technology. I couldn't tell you when I got my first computer, but there was always one in the house and I was allowed to use it at least by the time I was able to read. Some of the games I grew up playing have absolutely no graphics and a lot of them are DOS based. I'd say I had access to a computer in the late 80s and had my own (shared with my sister) by the mid nineties, although I guess it could have been early nineties. My dad had a mobile phone in the mid nineties and that thing was huge. Apparently it didn't last long and I think it was a work thing. He worked for the telephone company. I didn't get a cell phone myself until late '09 or early '10. I still use a landline, probably more than I use my oft' forgotten cell phone. On the other hand, my niece knew at the age of two how to use my iPad better than my mom knows how to use her own iPad (a gift from my dad) even now. My mom does use her cell phone way more than I do, though. I had a MySpace account and it was just as neglected as my Facebook account is now. Correction. I just checked. MySpace still exists, so I guess I still have a MySpace account. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 11:08:09 GMT -5
With a few exceptions, such as myself, most of the posters here are of the Millennial Generation. You lot grew up in the era in which the Internet came into being. So it's no wonder that you all took to it as quick as you did.
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Post by StoryGirl83 on Jun 2, 2016 14:56:30 GMT -5
I guess I became aware of the internet when I was in high school. I didn't really start using it until I was in college. I think I used it a little before we moved. We had a really slow dial up connection. I didn't really see the point or have any reason to be on it. How times change, huh?
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Post by missjessica on Aug 25, 2024 0:16:37 GMT -5
I guess I became aware of the internet when I was in high school. I didn't really start using it until I was in college. I think I used it a little before we moved. We had a really slow dial up connection. I didn't really see the point or have any reason to be on it. How times change, huh? Yeah times have definitely changed. Anyone born 2010+ is technology driven since like aged 3. There's a time in my life where I had zero interaction with anything technology. My childhood I still didn't even touch a computer at all. I still remember dial up internet. Back to the topic. I hope forums don't die out. I feel they eventually will one day. At least this forum will be around until all of us Millennials and older Gen Z's die off (Unless the newer generations find an interest to keep places like this alive) or lose interest in Charmed and coming here. |
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