This article is mostly only relevant to people under 20.
In my opinion, the real generation gap begins close to the current age of 22. People 22 or younger very likely had the internet in Elementary schools, a computer before they entered middle school (probably with the internet), video systems with 3D accelerators, broadband before they got out of high school, and Wikipedia for the entirety of their college career, among other things.
I remember the day a 56kbps frame relay circuit was installed in our house in 1997. It was connected back to my dad's office and I could use it to access the Internet via their connection. It was amazing the day that I didn't have to dial anything.
I think I was the only person who was in my freshman college class in 1998 that knew you didn't need disk up to connect to the Internet. Sharing that single T1 with 2000 other students sucked.
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This article is mostly only relevant to people under 20.
In my opinion, the real generation gap begins close to the current age of 22. People 22 or younger very likely had the internet in Elementary schools, a computer before they entered middle school (probably with the internet), video systems with 3D accelerators, broadband before they got out of high school, and Wikipedia for the entirety of their college career, among other things.
I remember the day a 56kbps frame relay circuit was installed in our house in 1997. It was connected back to my dad's office and I could use it to access the Internet via their connection. It was amazing the day that I didn't have to dial anything.
I think I was the only person who was in my freshman college class in 1998 that knew you didn't need disk up to connect to the Internet. Sharing that single T1 with 2000 other students sucked.
I'm 25. My first year or two of college, Wikipedia was around, but I knew more than Wikipedia about maybe half the subjects I looked up.