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Reading this made me feel really old. >I’m a digital native, older than most. >The first time I can remember logging on to the net was around 1998, when I was
by woofcat 7y ago
Reading this made me feel really old.
>I’m a digital native, older than most.
>The first time I can remember logging on to the net was around 1998, when I was five years old.
>the rise of Facebook in early high school, Instagram in late high school
I'd also consider myself a Digital Native, however I'm in my 30's.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoI find it amusing that the author wrote an article about how they miss the internet of the 90s while at the same time acknowledging that they were 5 in 1998...
- mcnichol 7y agoComing here literally to talk about this. The youthfulness of the article is adorable albeit a little naieve. Maybe we are getting old. I still feel like a kid and there are many greybeards that were born of the digital revolution that are "older than most."
- dreamcompiler 7y agoIt is funny how people think the Internet started in 1995. I was using the Arpanet for email in 1980. And my colleagues had been using it for several years at that time.
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- jcranmer 7y agoI lived through the entire 90s and I'm not sure I actually remember using the internet at all in that timeframe. The earliest I can definitively pin my internet usage is 2000 or 2001, and the warm, fuzzy nostalgia period I remember is finding and playing online Flash games in the 2001-2004-ish time frame. Of course, until we got broadband internet (mid-noughts), connecting to the internet was rather more annoying, and as such, computer time was mostly playing local computer games instead of browsing the internet.