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I still find it strange that I'm a millenial
I can't call anyone "kids these days" yet but I really had a different growing-up experience than, well, kids these days
Personal computers and smart devices became commonplace more towards the latter half of my pre-uni education
I remember having a "family computer", slow as heck
And bringing a Word doc to school on a floppy
I listened to tapes and CDs
Social media wasn't even a thing
Dumb phones were /just getting popular/
May 14, 2017 at 3:16pmWeb
Show threadCrushing the InevitableMay 14, 2017
@nonphatic YES! I feel you. I was born in 91, in a fairly rural area with no landline phone, no indoor running water and 5 TV channels. I had limited access to the internet in the later part of secondary education, and in libraries, which was magic! My upbringing was unusual for the time maybe, but not *that* unusual (apart from maybe the whole water thing). I find it bizzare having people tell me that I have "grown up" with all these millennial tech things, just end up having to explain what an outlier is.
Show threadCrushing the InevitableMay 14, 2017
@nonphatic my older brother who was born in '77 had more access to mobiles, internet, computers, consumer electronics in general as a youth because he was bought up by his father in a middle class and fairly affluent bit of south England. Me in west Wales did not get in on it untill I was much older. By which point I was behind many people's nannas.