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[โ€“] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No I can't relate to that memory because nobody had internet when I was 10 ๐Ÿฅฒ

[โ€“] kamenlady@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, me too... When i was 10, i was visiting friends to play Pac-Man together on their brand new Atari.

[โ€“] Im_old@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

User name checks out :']

Now we're talking! #TeamAtari

[โ€“] eleitl@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody had personal computers when I was ten.

[โ€“] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not even a RadioShack TRS-80?

[โ€“] eleitl@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not even an Altair 8800, at least in my country.

[โ€“] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We got internet when I was around 7, Prodigy, 1994 or 1995. I never used it because there wasn't shit for a kid to do. We had Prodigy until like 2002. My old man signed a long contract with them, it was a good deal, but wouldn't you know, right after he signed it, cable internet became available. And you can bet 14 year old me wore him down, it was not a want, but a need.

[โ€“] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prodigy

I'm a firestatah
Twisted firestatah

[โ€“] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I would love to have experienced that generation of electronic industrial music, but I'm not sure it was anyplace for a 10 year old.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Living in a university town with a much older, tech-savvy brother meant I first used the internet in 1990 at the age of 13. I used the internet before pretty much anyone I know other than my brother, but I was on MU*s and Usenet like it was home and then I discovered IRC...

I'm not saying I was smart, just lucky. In fact, I was pretty stupid about the internet. I remember seeing an early website in 1993 maybe and saying something like, "it's cool, but it will never replace Gopher."

That's an impressive level of early adopting :-)

Gopher was brought back to life later