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I'm 40 years old, and came of age before the Internet was really a thing. I didn't send my first email until I was a freshman in college, and that was over what today seems like Paleolithic university intranet. It would be difficult to overstate how much the Internet has changed life. The smart phone is another enormous development whose influence on social interaction hasn't even fully shaken out yet.
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Yeah, in 1995, I met and dated a German foreign-exchange student in my city in the Midwest. She went home at the end of 1995, and I followed her out to Germany a few months later to live with her. In the meantime, we wrote each other letters (email for the general public was in its infancy, and international calls were still expensive). Snail-mail letters. I doubt any of the most active posters on SA have written more than a dozen snail-mail letters in their lives. No technological development in my lifetime even comes close to the change the Internet has brought about. I was a tech-savvy kid in the 80s, which at the time meant that I knew how to program BASIC code. I couldn't have imagined the poo poo I would see in the second half of the 90s.
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Jan 28, 2016 19:26
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Blue Star posted:I think you're referring to me. Progress in video games isn't exactly life-changing, though. It's neat, but it's not exactly like going from horse and buggies to cars and airplanes in one's lifetime. When I was a kid, the Super Nintendo was the most advanced home console. Now it's PS4 and XBox One. That's kinda neat but it doesn't revolutionize the world. It's gotta be sad to be 30 and already so jaded.
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Jan 29, 2016 03:27
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