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Same here, but from Slovenia, equally a small village. I think people forget the incredibly huge role internet has in terms of openly available knowledge. In

Same here, but from Slovenia, equally a small village. I think people forget the incredibly huge role internet has in terms of openly available knowledge. In my opinion the majority of negativity around internet is from the general public and about the websites that the general public uses aka. facebook, twitter, instagram, ... This has became even more apparent when I started teaching computer science to students and adults. The most noticeable was their inability to use Google, actually being able to find information online. Techy people quite often forget that, since we're so used to solving problems. Imagine programming without internet... <insert stackoverflow joke here>

adamddev1 5y ago
The fact that both of you could grow up in small, non English-speaking villages and write such beautiful English is a testament to the power of learning English through the internet. It's amazing how natural and clear non-native-speakers' English feels when they've learned it as they're interacting with the wealth of discourse on the internet. People who haven't learned foreign languages (looking at you, fellow North Americans) won't quite appreciate what a huge achievement this is. (To be able to write and communicate freely in a way that feels native.)