Youth 'cannot live' without web

mizzbiz

It is amazing how fast the content grew - I remember back in the day (around 1996) there were hardly any sites, and certainly no google. Forums were basically just message boards created as fan sites for bands. How did we cope!!

And although the post above is tongue in cheek, the black and white is not far form the truth.

kabayiri

I predict the next big thang :-
"geotag-sh*g-dating"

You are in the bar with your iphone; your phone 'spots' compatible 'dates' in the bar; it has already scanned your drink; tagged their drink; placed an e-order for more drinks at the bar; it satnavs you to their location, shows you the efit photo, and bluetooths sweet nothings in their ear.

Facebook? pah, thats like so yesterday.

Fuchsia_a

I'm not quite young enough to be a digital native - I didn't have a computer in the house until I was about 12 or so and didn't have the internet until I was 14. However, I got into it all like a duck to water, and there are times where I'd rather go without food than miss out on being able to check my email, and frankly I'd rather chew off my own arm than live without it for good.

All of my friends (and by friends, I do mean real friends) communicate and organise social events via networking sites, email and so forth, and some of the friends I'm closest to don't have phones, fixed snail mail addresses, or live abroad, and it would be an absolute nightmare keeping in contact with everyone without internet access. My hobbies are also mostly tied up with the internet, and without it I feel incredibly lonely, bored and disconnected from everything. It's possible to cope without it, but it's frustrating, dull and isolating like trying to get through a day without speaking.

I don't think older or non-internet types quite grasp the fact that the internet can be so important as a communication method.

kennyboy66_2

Generali wrote: »

I've been chatting on the web to a 14 year old girl in the States.

It turns out she's an undercover cop.

How cool's that at her age?!

Crying with laughter here.

PasturesNew

The Internet is truly brilliant. Utterly brilliant. It has everything. Everything. It's all there, instantly. Brilliant.

Whatever you want there's information, photos and Youtube.

Utterly brilliant.

Marvellous stuff. Couldn't live without it ... love it.

vivatifosi

mizzbiz wrote: »

It is amazing how fast the content grew - I remember back in the day (around 1996) there were hardly any sites, and certainly no google. Forums were basically just message boards created as fan sites for bands. How did we cope!!

Yahoo and AltaVista?

Seriously though, I used to post on what is now one of the biggest forums on the whole of the web. At the time, there were 10 posts a day (on a busy traffic day), and when I went to the States I caught up with the site's founder and had dinner together. The guy is probably a millionaire a few times over now and wouldn't know the vast majority of his millions of members by name. Can't see me having dinner with Martin any time soon (Martin, if you're reading this, Thai is my favourite....)

mizzbiz

vivatifosi wrote: »

Yahoo and AltaVista?

Don't remember Alta Vista early on but do remember Yahoo :-) I've had my first Yahoo email address since about 97/98.

chopperharris

http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

i sit on a netbook while i watch the tv ,

but i remember the dark days of monochrome bbs and phone bills that were stupendous and at baud rates approaching smoke signals....try and download interracial russian amputee midget beasitality gay !!!!!! with that.

you dont even know your born generation pc , go and try ascii !!!!!! , taping singles off radio one to play on a mono tape recorder and actually being thumped by bullies rather than complaining about wallposts.

The only electronic boobs we had was 58008.
The only txt sent was by a typewriter via the p.o
Hd meant high density
Mobiles were shops , post office and banks or something blue peter showed you how to make from coathangers
www was a speach impediment that never won you a pop contract enabling you to pump jordan
monitors were someone sinister overseeing something
keyboards were were you put the office/school keys at the end of the day
a console was a device to hook up to your tv in black and white , even if the tv was in colour , with only one game of bat and ball with volume knobs for controllers.
The pirate bay was a tourist attraction in corwall
youtube was an insult
messenger was a sucidal cyclist
yahoo was an effimenate call ,from a dude with a six pack in ar5eless leather chaps and hanldebar tache.
A virus meant a week in bed
i player was a russian pimp
sky tv was laying on the grass finding animal shapes in clouds
bt was a sandwich for those that arent fond of lettuce
facebook was something the police showed you looking looking for a criminal
myspace was your usual seat in the living room
smilies were the family of a scots female tv presenter called carol
pmsl was a reason to go to the doctor
jpegs were used for putting up tents
networking was what trawlermen did
blackberry was something grannies made into jam
spam was fritter filling
a laptop was were you put your supper to watch the tv
a notebook was a coppers memory in court
intel was an army word
the only thing that was made by apple was scrumpy
you sniggered every time someone used the word floppy or hardisk
typing amd usually meant using some tippex
gps was a bike race
people walking along the street talking to themselves meant psychological problems not bluetooth
bluetooth was something that gave you away for eating school cyan crayolas
a thumbdrive was showing off when motoring
wireless was what you listened to the radio on
kicking the brick was rebooting the computer your parents bought for your schoolwork that you only ever played games on
Lcd was a maths term
A mouse in your home meant cheese laced murder traps and a satisfying loud snap in the middle of the night
Martin lewis was a guy that read the news
Money saving expert was the bank manager
Pop idol had hughie green aided by a clapometer
Games never used batteries , no one read or even new the rules
Computer games were typed into computers from magazines , only to have errata the next month
peer to peer was copying a disk at home and swapping in the playground
the internet was behind a milanese footy team goal
"e mail" was a county accent exclamation at finding a letter in the morning at the front door
drivers were folk in front of steering wheels
the only thing you could buy for web interacting at home was a exending fluffy duster
the only inter office mail fun was 10th generation photocopies of a joke doing the rounds
broad band was fat blokes with some instruments
chipping a console meant getting in the french polisher
games were played in the same room with the people you were playing with , and usually with a real die or with 52 cards
wii tennis was scots for pingpong
tv remotes had one button , and you left it on top of the tv thus defeating the purpose

lostinrates

chopperharris wrote: »

tv remotes had one button , and you left it on top of the tv thus defeating the purpose

I remember ours had a wire, attaching it. It caused little rows if someone didn't put it on top of the tv because then the wire was messy.

I didn't really use internet until university, and then soley for work. I only really found ''this'' sort of internet after being ill, and being very isolated and having lost so much independance. If I hadn't had it the first couple of years I think my outcome might have been very different. I still really use it for a lot of contact. I have trouble with long phone conversations (my medical problems) and I have trouble concentrating, so being able to reread what someone said instead of phasing out halfay through is good. BUT, and its a hesitant 'but', I do feel its ''different'' however wonderful. I'm feeling the need for party shoes and tangible people ATM.

SingleSue

Fuchsia_a wrote: »

I'm not quite young enough to be a digital native - I didn't have a computer in the house until I was about 12 or so and didn't have the internet until I was 14. However, I got into it all like a duck to water, and there are times where I'd rather go without food than miss out on being able to check my email, and frankly I'd rather chew off my own arm than live without it for good.

All of my friends (and by friends, I do mean real friends) communicate and organise social events via networking sites, email and so forth, and some of the friends I'm closest to don't have phones, fixed snail mail addresses, or live abroad, and it would be an absolute nightmare keeping in contact with everyone without internet access. My hobbies are also mostly tied up with the internet, and without it I feel incredibly lonely, bored and disconnected from everything. It's possible to cope without it, but it's frustrating, dull and isolating like trying to get through a day without speaking.

I don't think older or non-internet types quite grasp the fact that the internet can be so important as a communication method.

I was 32 before we had a computer and internet, within 3 years I was running my own website (well actually it was more like 2 and a bit as I was 32 and three quarters when we got the pc).

The computer is my only way of having a life outside of the home as without it, I would have no social interaction with people other than my children or parents (no childcare means no going out).