I grew up on the internet. A family member ran a local library and I remember when the library was allowed 30 minutes of internet access per month. It was a new thing and horrendously expensive. This must have been 1996 or so. I was never into the countercultural aspects though, mostly just used it for research and information. It's very addictive having access to what feels like reams of information about every conceivable subject. Whatever I was interested in, I'd plug into search engines. Back then, they all had strengths and weaknesses... Altavista had a translator tool, AskJeeves was good if your search was phrased as a question, Yahoo was a good general search engine, WebCrawler was another. Google didn't exist. Mots du jour included things like "hyperlinks" (or "hotlinks,") "World Wide Web," etc. Pictures took forever to load, too, and the quality was not great. When I was in high school I got into gaming and then IT and assumed I'd make a career of it and try to become a CIO or something. Thankfully, I elected not to pursue that path.
It's funny, now I'm in my 20s but I feel like an old codger when it comes to technology. I really don't care for it, I basically only use the internet for some email, this forum, a handful of game blogs, and a bit of research. There are a few unrelated forums that I occasionally read, but don't participate on.
It's funny, now I'm in my 20s but I feel like an old codger when it comes to technology. I really don't care for it, I basically only use the internet for some email, this forum, a handful of game blogs, and a bit of research. There are a few unrelated forums that I occasionally read, but don't participate on.