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As someone who grew up with a computer in the household in the 80s, I don't think the two situations are comparable. For one, a computer back then (and even tod
by danso 7y ago
As someone who grew up with a computer in the household in the 80s, I don't think the two situations are comparable. For one, a computer back then (and even today) is much less geared toward consumption (versus creation) than phones are. Second, being able to carry a phone with you and use it all day makes it a fundamentally different influence.
- tjansen 7y agoNot sure where you grew up, but where I grew up most kids spent at least 95% of their computer time playing games.
- danso 7y agoYeah I played a lot of games too, but it was still a machine that was geared toward you doing work – even when playing games (besides qbasic, configuring .bat and .ini files were my first foray into hacking and programming). And reading USENET was not as addictive or as mind-dulling as infinitely scrolling on Instagram and Facebook
- icebraining 7y agoSame. Either gaming or on mIRC, flirting. Very few created anything or even knew more than the basics about computers.