Youth 'cannot live' without web

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kabayiri wrote: »

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.

It's already here, albeit for a niche market. Google 'iphone grindr'.

incher

The internet has saved me from Eastenders, Coronation Street, Holby, etc. What more can I say in its praise?

Incher

PS I'm not a youth

fc123

Son and daughter cannot imagine a life without it. Want to find something out, check a spelling, chit chat, shopping?
Facebook and the 'World of Me' is fascinating......I don't do FB but need to sort out a business one.

I have had dial up and an e-mail account for some years but preferred fax and 'phones. My brother set up a webshop for us in about 2001 but it got very few sales just big £2000 orders from Russia.:rolleyes:

We used to stock brands then and weren't allowed to sell them online. I remember boo.com and then it's bust
Son was the last kid in his year to get PC at home...and that was why we got one set up but the dial up meant I didn't really trawl around it much as it was so slow.


Once we got broadband in 2005, I learnt to sell on EBay and reclaiimed some bank charges with the help from a forum and it was like magic.
Using google is such a timesaver and fantastic for work.

The ability to research things too is just amazing to me.......I mean, we used to choose and buy houses without RightMove.

I found this place in 2007. It's like a parallel world.

I can't imagine life without a mobile now either.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

greggymagic wrote: »

Youth can't "live" without internet?

Wow I bet that was a shock to the researchers when they collated their results!

I think I'll do a national survey on mobile phones see if anyone thinks they can't "live" without them!

You can't live without oxygen - you can live without the internet it's just that life would be a lot less convenient!!

Have to agree life would be a bit less convenient without the internet.
I don't spend that much time on it but then again I don't watch TV much either.
I have lots of other things to get through.
As far as mobile phones are concerned I hate them.I have four as my family keep buying them for me in the hope I'll use one but I like being unavailable unless I want to be.
I find them so intrusive.

boyse7en

Computer games were typed into computers from magazines , only to have errata the next month

Ah, that brings back memories of lost weekends typing a version of Space Invaders, or similar, into my ZX Spectrum using the rubber keyboard – then spending hours going back through a couple of hundred lines of code looking for the error that stopped it working properly.
Even if you shelled out your pocket money on a commercial game, it came on a cassette and was a bit of a hit and miss affair as to whether it would load. I had three different cassette players (all secondhand) that I used to swap between to try and get them to work.


Those were the days. You really had to work for your fun back then.

StevieJ

boyse7en wrote: »

Ah, that brings back memories of lost weekends typing a version of Space Invaders, or similar, into my ZX Spectrum using the rubber keyboard – then spending hours going back through a couple of hundred lines of code looking for the error that stopped it working properly.
Even if you shelled out your pocket money on a commercial game, it came on a cassette and was a bit of a hit and miss affair as to whether it would load. I had three different cassette players (all secondhand) that I used to swap between to try and get them to work.


Those were the days. You really had to work for your fun back then.

I remember playing a sort of Tomb raider game on the UNIVAC at work, amazing at the time

SingleSue

My friend had one of those where you needed the cassette machine...think I went around there once and we gave up trying to get the blooming thing to work in the end!

Apart from that, my first home experience of the internet was on my ex husbands games machine (not sure which one now but it was the first one to offer it, this was prior to 2002 - might have been the Dreamcast), then our own home computer in 2002.

I did use a computer way back in 1987 at work, big old thing with huge boxes underneath the desk, so big my feet and legs couldn't fit under and green typing on a black screen (I think, memory is a bit hazy about it), which required a good kick every now and again when it got stuck.

LittleMissAspie

fc123 wrote: »

Son and daughter cannot imagine a life without it. Want to find something out, check a spelling, chit chat, shopping?

Exactly, I am forever opening a new browser tab and finding something out. Recipes, films, shopping, books, news, banking, and yesterday it was laundry symbols. Any time I want to know anything, I just google it.

I can't really imagine where people got their information from in the past. How else can you see what hand blenders are out there, read tons of reviews so that you know which one to choose and then find the cheapest place that sells it? All in under an hour. It would take a full day if you had to go round all the shops in real life.

robin_banks

For many the internet is about !!!!!!, free music and extreme right wing politics.

I don't mind 2 of them

Generali

Not work friendly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc