Starting around 2016, I noticed our young interns had no compunctions about finding and using unlicensed streaming sites. Most of them are women. Just recently

Starting around 2016, I noticed our young interns had no compunctions about finding and using unlicensed streaming sites. Most of them are women. Just recently, I overheard one all-girl group lamenting the balance between buying the laptops they liked versus gaming laptops, and that they'd all settled on streaming from their or their partners' PCs and consoles at home. I asked if The Sims was really that performance intensive, and they said, "Oh, no, BG3." Listening to them talk about quest lines, battle and party strats, how and where to get certain characters and fashion, it reminded me exactly of conversations I'd had with my friends (over the same franchise, even) in the 90s and 00s. It makes me wonder how or if our parents ever felt like we were their kids with how different the world became in such a short time with the internet. And here they are now, all born after 9/11, the smartphone and internet age, with high bandwidth ubiquitous, instantaneous global connectivity, and I don't know why I ever thought they might be different.