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post 1691707583 10-15-2023, 08:44 AM
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Did you grow up with computers and internet?

Were you raised on the internet also?
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post 1691707923 10-15-2023, 08:51 AM
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Got dial up when I was like 8

Used to pickup the phone line to drop the rest of the fam then call in on the kids computer for cybering with fellow lesbians on aim chat rooms.
post 1691708093 10-15-2023, 08:56 AM
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grew up with computers way before internet.we had no idea it would turn out like this,for better or for worse
post 1691708183 10-15-2023, 08:58 AM
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Yup. I remember playing flash games on Cartoon Network's website or Nick.com. Either at school or at home I'd get a chance to surf the web.

Fun, and simpler times.
post 1691708253 10-15-2023, 08:59 AM
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I knew of computers from books mostly. First chance to actually run calculations was in mid 80's on a mainframe computer. I miss that time. It was far more interesting than our modern youtube devices.
post 1691708453 10-15-2023, 09:05 AM
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we didnt get the internet until i was 15 and then it was dial up. eventually we got broadband maybe 5 years later
post 1691708503 10-15-2023, 09:06 AM
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didn't have a computer at home until I was 17-18 yo crew
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post 1691708593 10-15-2023, 09:09 AM
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Yeah, but not till i was about 11, and dial up. Used to piss around on IRC and write mIRC scripts n chit, and play TFC, CS DOD and age of empires lol.

Very, very different world to having social media permanently active on your phone.
post 1691708703 10-15-2023, 09:10 AM
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I think I was around 12-13 when we got the internet

AOL dial up boyo
post 1691709243 10-15-2023, 09:22 AM
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we had a computer but it was useless for the most part. i think just my mom used it for school stuff. we eventually got 56k but it was slow af so again i didnt really use it or anyone else. than at around 13-14 we got "high speed" cable internet. i think high speed back then was 1-2 mb? lmao

wasnt until my friend installed quake 2 i became a computer nerd. online gaming was amazing. than most of high school i was playing star craft and counter strike ayyyyy
post 1691709843 10-15-2023, 09:32 AM
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No computers when I was young. In high school word processors came out and we used them in school. I didn't get a computer til I was late 20's.
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post 1691712853 10-15-2023, 10:41 AM
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Yes. I remember being like 4 or so and there was a family computer with internet. I remember my first time going on it, browsing around. Parents didn't allow me to browse freely until I was probably 12+. Tablets didn't exist for most of my pre-teen years and when they did exist they were known to be too expensive. I didn't get my first phone till I was 14 or so. I got an ipod touch earlier than that in middle school, just played Doodle Jump and listened to Linkin Park on it.
post 1691712963 10-15-2023, 10:43 AM
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Thankfully not
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post 1691714203 10-15-2023, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted By Legz422⏩
No computers when I was young. In high school word processors came out and we used them in school. I didn't get a computer til I was late 20's.
We had apple computers in my elementary school in like 4th and 5th grade.. computer class didn't teach you anything.though.

Unless you had a commodore 64 or some.otber home PC at that time you couldn't learn much. And back the. They cost thousands.

Got first computer at 24 I believe it was.

I for one thankful to have grown up in am Era free of internet and cell phones..
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When i was 12/13 most people had computers with dial up modem internet. Old school peeps remember that bowman game where you shoot arrows ? Was one of the first games i played.
post 1691714493 10-15-2023, 11:13 AM
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had a mac computer way back in the day and played those math and reading games on them... got dial up around my early teens than high speed internet in my 15+ years
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First real computer was an Apple ][+. 300bd dial-up modem. Would d/l ascii porn from BBS (bulletin board systems) srs.

Eventually got a 56k/bd modem.. d/l ascii porn even faster.
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post 1691714893 10-15-2023, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted By latverian41⏩
I for one thankful to have grown up in an Era free of internet and cell phones..
^^^ this

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