|
Replies: 42
| visibility 1
|
Rock Defender [54]
TigerPulse: 90%
Posts: 35
Joined: 11/30/98
|
Deep thoughts generational question..........
Mar 29, 2013, 10:52 AM
|
|
So I was pretty much in the last generation that grew up without Internet being a constant companion, and I probably wouldn't have it any other way---that leads me to my question:
Is anyone who was in the same boat as me jelly of those who grew up with Interwebs?
Anyone who grew up with it wish they hadn't?
|
|
|
|
 |
CU Medallion [54759]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 52803
Joined: 10/1/03
|
without the interwebs, I wouldn't have any of you
Mar 29, 2013, 10:53 AM
|
|
which leads me to think that my life would've been exponentially better and more productive without it
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [106647]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 65603
Joined: 12/2/02
|
Srs post is srs***
Mar 29, 2013, 10:53 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rock Defender [54]
TigerPulse: 90%
Posts: 35
Joined: 11/30/98
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [54759]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 52803
Joined: 10/1/03
|
hah...
Mar 29, 2013, 10:59 AM
|
|
obed thinks I'm his age.....
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [40397]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 23487
Joined: 7/13/12
|
dial up AOL.
Mar 29, 2013, 10:53 AM
|
|
i wouldnt trade those memories of waiting 5 minutes to see Jenny McCarthy nekkid for anything.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78876]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 78623
Joined: 8/2/03
|
GET OFF THE PHONE MOM! YOU JUST KICKED ME OFF!***
Mar 29, 2013, 10:57 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [54759]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 52803
Joined: 10/1/03
|
yeah...don't miss that ####***
Mar 29, 2013, 11:04 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [73570]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 78044
Joined: 11/30/98
|
i'm kinda glad I didn't
Mar 29, 2013, 10:53 AM
|
|
i would've been surfin pron 24x7 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [76043]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108983
Joined: 10/26/03
|
I think I came in right at a good time.
Mar 29, 2013, 10:55 AM
|
|
I didn't have a home computer until maybe 8th grade. Playing outside was till a thing. Riding bikes, going fishing, and the like. But then by high school when all I really wanted to do was see some #####, they were all around. I can't see how my childhood could have been better with more internet.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [106647]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 65603
Joined: 12/2/02
|
Plus, kids now play XBOX live and stuff like that all the
Mar 29, 2013, 10:57 AM
|
|
time and that really wasn't available in my childhood. So you got to go out and play baseball, football, feel up girls, etc which taught us all life lessons.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78876]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 78623
Joined: 8/2/03
|
I would've loved to have XBOX live and all the gaming
Mar 29, 2013, 10:59 AM
|
|
systems they have now when I was a kid.
Battlefield 3 for 15 hr straight, guaranteed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [76043]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108983
Joined: 10/26/03
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78876]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 78623
Joined: 8/2/03
|
Along with the new technology, comes the power
Mar 29, 2013, 11:01 AM
|
|
window locks on cars. Gives great opportunities for fathers to hot box the car with farts on road trips.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [28802]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58393
Joined: 11/14/03
|
yeah, we didn't have a home comp until 6-7th grade
Mar 29, 2013, 11:15 AM
[ in reply to I think I came in right at a good time. ] |
|
can't really remember when we got it. We moved from Charleston to the DC area, and my dad's new employer gave it to him. Otherwise I'm not sure when we would've gotten a computer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [60327]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 42606
Joined: 11/30/98
|
I thank God daily that there were no cell phone cameras
Mar 29, 2013, 10:56 AM
|
|
when I was a teenager.
Oddly, the Internets makes you smarter AND dumber at the same time. Makes you dependent, instead of having to actually retain knowledge.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78876]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 78623
Joined: 8/2/03
|
As a dude, cellphone cameras could only benefit you.***
Mar 29, 2013, 10:59 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [60327]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 42606
Joined: 11/30/98
|
nein.....see Steubenville rape case
Mar 29, 2013, 11:02 AM
|
|
think about if some of the wimmens you molested could have taped/filmed your antics/conversations.
Plus, all the beer-fueled rampages that could be used as states evidence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [38925]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 22731
Joined: 3/17/11
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [28802]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58393
Joined: 11/14/03
|
cell phone cameras actually came around...
Mar 29, 2013, 11:04 AM
[ in reply to I thank God daily that there were no cell phone cameras ] |
|
after the internet was a big deal. I think we had dial up by the time I was a sophomore or junior in HS, but I didn't have a cell phone until I graduated from HS in '03. I don't think any phones had cameras back then, either, and nobody really texted.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [76043]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108983
Joined: 10/26/03
|
I was able to avoid texting for a long time.
Mar 29, 2013, 11:08 AM
|
|
first cell phone was a work issued phone in 2002. I sold for Sprint. I did some texting on the old Motorola razor, but didn't become a fiend until I got a blackberry. I got that maybe 3 months before the first iPhone.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [28802]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58393
Joined: 11/14/03
|
never texted until I dated a girl that did...
Mar 29, 2013, 11:16 AM
|
|
and that was senior year of college, back in '07. Still not a lot of people were texting then, which is kinda crazy to think about considering that was only 5 years ago.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [40397]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 23487
Joined: 7/13/12
|
we used to text on those old Nokia phones
Mar 29, 2013, 11:25 AM
|
|
snake and sprint to sprint texts were the best.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [76043]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108983
Joined: 10/26/03
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78876]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 78623
Joined: 8/2/03
|
AOL and dial up just came along when I was a pre-teen.
Mar 29, 2013, 10:57 AM
|
|
I wish I was growing up with it now. There is so much opportunity for ####, and to see naked classmates out there. Teenagers are idiots.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [28802]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58393
Joined: 11/14/03
|
I didn't really have it until towards the end of HS
Mar 29, 2013, 11:03 AM
|
|
it definitely helped with studying, and it has greatly improved connectivity. I'm not going to say I wish I didn't have it for most of my life, but I also see some of the downsides to instant gratification you can get with the internet. I think it's taken a toll on the sort of effort it takes have real social virtues and real community.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [38925]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 22731
Joined: 3/17/11
|
since I only discovered message boards and "chatting"
Mar 29, 2013, 11:03 AM
|
|
about 5 yrs ago, guess I can skip on answering your question.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5430]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2286
Joined: 12/27/05
|
Hughes Middle School, circa 1995
Mar 29, 2013, 11:03 AM
|
|
I was in 7th grade and the school had just gotten internet. For some reason, there was no firewall in our computer lab at that time and a bunch of us 12-13 year olds discovered hotbabes.com. Probably one of the greatest days that school will ever have.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [54759]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 52803
Joined: 10/1/03
|
yeah...freshmen year in HS, i clicked on something...
Mar 29, 2013, 11:06 AM
|
|
tl:dr vag popped up on screen in class and I didn't know enough to minimize it quickly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [28802]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 58393
Joined: 11/14/03
|
ah, the early days
Mar 29, 2013, 11:06 AM
[ in reply to Hughes Middle School, circa 1995 ] |
|
almost nobody seemed to know about all the uses the internet could be put to, so nobody had thought about firewalls. I remember we had the internet at school, but it was so slow and so new that nobody really used it. I think we mostly used those computers to play Oregon Trail and Sim City.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [136307]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 91837
Joined: 12/6/98
|
Absolutely not.
Mar 29, 2013, 11:06 AM
|
|
With the advent of the internet also came the felony charges for the kind of normal, everyday debauchery that was merely "kids having a little fun" back in my day. The young'uns may hear those stories, but they truly have no clue what we ACTUALLY got away with back in those times. The lack of the ability to document it with tiny handheld digital devices and instantaneously share it with the world forever doomed that life and times to little more than legend.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [76043]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108983
Joined: 10/26/03
|
My dad once threw a dead copper head into
Mar 29, 2013, 11:10 AM
|
|
a bar. Nobody got in trouble.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [136307]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 91837
Joined: 12/6/98
|
I climbed up the backside of the KA house and dropped a
Mar 29, 2013, 11:20 AM
|
|
live possum in someone's room. Caught the possum, had to do SOMETHING with it, didn't know whose room it was, wasn't planned, it all just kind of materialized. These days, that probably gets you prison time for assault with a deadly marsupial.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [76043]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108983
Joined: 10/26/03
|
PETA would probably get on you too.***
Mar 29, 2013, 12:40 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rock Defender [54]
TigerPulse: 90%
Posts: 35
Joined: 11/30/98
|
wish I had a brazillion points***
Mar 29, 2013, 11:38 AM
[ in reply to Absolutely not. ] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [12270]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12595
Joined: 12/1/03
|
not at all. i grew up before the whole computer thing, if
Mar 29, 2013, 11:10 AM
|
|
you consider me grown up, sometimes i see that there is way too much information available too quickly for kids today.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [23693]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 36824
Joined: 8/19/03
|
You lost me at, 'grew up'.***
Mar 29, 2013, 11:19 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [112363]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 61263
Joined: 8/22/01
|
Getting lines and betting would have been easier............
Mar 29, 2013, 11:23 AM
|
|
than using a bookie.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [38925]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 22731
Joined: 3/17/11
|
yeah, but my bookie also supllied me with
Mar 29, 2013, 11:29 AM
|
|
my Sunday beer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [8142]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 19775
Joined: 6/6/03
|
The first major communications advance I remember...
Mar 29, 2013, 12:02 PM
|
|
... was the touch tone phone. Growing up, we had a party line and rotary dial, but at least we didn't have to turn the crank and ask for Sarah. While I'm a little ambivalent about being old, I'm glad I've been around to see things that even Capt. James ByGod Kirk never imagined. Now if we could just figure out that transporter thing...
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [11265]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 6682
Joined: 11/23/03
|
You must also remember
Mar 29, 2013, 12:20 PM
|
|
when color t.v. was a BIG Deal! I remember watching the Friday Night Fights with Grandfather and uncle on a t.v. that had lines and snow so bad. And that was modern at the time.
They give me a hard time at work for my lack of computer savvy. Truth is the young guns all envy my experiences and knowledge of how to make everything else work. They are forever asking how to garden, construction, house maintenance, hunt, engines, etc. Of course, I am always researching on the net about how to do more stuff. But you've got to have a basic knowledge to understand how to swing the hammer and turn the screw. It's not all information. A good deal is technique.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [8142]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 19775
Joined: 6/6/03
|
Oh yeah. when DIY wasn't trendy...
Mar 29, 2013, 12:36 PM
|
|
... but just what you did.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [13190]
TigerPulse: 98%
Posts: 19419
Joined: 9/27/04
|
Heck no
Mar 29, 2013, 12:42 PM
|
|
God knows what sort of trouble I would have been in if facebook and cell phone cameras existed while I was in high school. Those disposable cameras were enough trouble.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 42
| visibility 1
|
|
|
50
