like every now and then i see someone with their age being like 14 or some shit in twitter or some other site and im like how tf r u so young wtf grow up shithead
like every now and then i see someone with their age being like 14 or some shit in twitter or some other site and im like how tf r u so young wtf grow up shithead
does that count as old oh fuck
I remember dial-up internet. I actually remember no internet, even at school.
I had to copy Oregon Trail code by hand because my dad wanted me to learn how to do it on (I think) an Apple II.
Oh yeah - didn't have internet until, like, middle school. I tried to assume my sacred duty of Posting on Usenet and it was very confusing and tried to play Command and Conquer on null modem but people kept picking up the fucking phone.
We got internet in elementary school, and my dad (at that point) was working to set all of that up, so we were a bit of an early adopter household. So we got home internet around when the school district got it.
But I still never had a console. :(
Whatever, what's the point in a game you can't mod?
my family were early adopters on the internet train, but i do at least remember our teachers asking us if we had internet access at home when assigning projects
I asked this of my students in 2017. There are still a substantial amount of families who do not.
oh yeah for sure, but i lived in an area where you could expect the answer to be "yes" for everybody
ngl, I expect at least one of those families was lying.
Maybe I've just never lived in a real upper middle class community, but, uhhhhh, poor people have other priorities, and the library exists.
yeah i grew up in a suburb that ranged from "upper-middle class" to "almost billionaires" so there weren't exactly a lot of poor people in my school. not zero; there was a small area out of town where poorer people live that was included in the school zone (i had a mentor in high school from that area and he was one of the people that really introduced me to socialism. also he had internet access at home) but not many
This is wild to me. I thought those types of places only existed in movies.
and when i said poorer earlier i mean relatively speaking. i'd expect everyone there was still above the official poverty line.
My town growing up had a median per-capita income of $19k (in 2020 dollars). So this is what I expect from others.
hell yes...some of my favorite childhood memories involve coding in BASIC on an Apple II