I also was born at the end of the 80s., so I fully understand you :)
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i remember that time when the characters on the screen were all green caps
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I was born on the late 70s and personal computers were a mirage back then and the internet was not even a thing of dreams... I am a firm defender of the internet and really appreciate all the things you say, however, not everything is great and this generation faces a lot more challenges than I did growing up because of their always online lives.
Some points:
- There is an avalanche of information online that can be hard to manage and sort out
- The information you then decide is right gets fed to you on a feedback loop and what researchers are seing is more people getting less tolerant of the ideas/beliefs of others instead of the opposite
- Relationships have moved from the real to the virtual world and this adds another layer of noise and makes them more superficial
- People are getting less patient and more entitled because the internet gives them everything (of the virtual world) almost immediately
- Lack of privacy and mass scale gathering of personal information that can be easily used against you.
As a father these are things that kind of concern me.
Thanks for the GAs :)
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It's really interesting how the internet access in early 2000s changed me from lonely introvert kid into more open and friendly person.
And that afer a few years life made me introvert and lonely again, too bitter and insecure to use all of these new social tools.
I guess it's the fault of the privacy issues these days.
Anyway, have a bump, mate!
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Does anyone remember website rings? Search engines were so poor back then and some sites would associate and link to each other to gain exposure.
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I remember when I used to type out those games in magazines (20 goes to 10 etc...) and then they didn't work - only to find out in the next issue they had made a printing error grrrrrr.... :P
Bumpety Bump for entering one :)
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i used to have an abandonware website, it was my dream, that was when they were cool and i was 14-15 or so... ahhh those were the days :)
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Just look at Star Trek, any series. A lot of that Science Fiction became normal household gadgets this decade.
I remember my brother doing a round trip of two cities just to buy two packs of (10 each) 3,5inch disks for the Atari ST in the 80s.
Each 10pack box costed 100 DM (50€) xD That was about 65 liters of petrol!
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Or kids these days talking about how graphics suck in some games. :/
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nice to see someone mentioning positive things from their generation ^^
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I remember when everyone used emule or edonkey and I was unable to make them work. I just... It never worked! So I used kazaa instead.
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