ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chanSums up my experience growing up
mirabilos@ilovecomputers yeah, totally the late-GenX experience :/
@mirabilos 90s kids like me too. So I’d say up to early Gen Z
@ilovecomputers depends on the region, I suppose
and how literal you take “grow up without the internet” (I pretty much did, only got access at school near the very end of schooling (with floppies to carry data to and fro, mind you), and only at where I lived once adult)
@mirabilos I could be wrong, but the 2010s is when the internet became so normalized in the US that you had to be in abject poverty to not have it. Like I had a friend who wasn’t online until he was in high school in the 2000s
@ilovecomputers I’m not in america
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@mirabilos
I wasn't living in the states for a good chunk of my childhood. I only started getting limited access to the internet in my preteens. The tech-lag was basically closed by the time I moved back to the US, and that accelerated timeline gave me the experience of going from stuff like Windows 3.11, needing to fiddle with DOS and floppies to play simple arcade games, to getting CDs, etc, and dial-up (internet access starts here - I didn't care much at the time until I learned I could read more books this way), etc etc. all the way to the modern era. Except I was still in my teens by the end of the "catch up" around the early 2010s.
So, I do feel like I got to experience the Internet this way but I know everyone's experience will be vastly different.
@ilovecomputers
@h3mmy @ilovecomputers yeah, that’s why I said it likely also depends on the region. Generations up to possibly Z start a few years later here as well because the american changes that sort of define them took a while to spill over.
(In my case, it was more “using DOS and having to occasionally fiddle with Windows or OS/2”, though.)