Internet During High School

↑ shopaholic

Tue, May 16 2006, 9:05 pm

It's interesting to see how "old" some of us are! My father is a proggrammer so he's been working with computers for 30+ years & we've had a computer in my parents house for 20 years or so.

tziviakayla

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:15 pm

The internet didn't exist when I was in high school. In college, we had access to the internet in the library. I took a computer programming course where one assignment was to send a e-mail message to a friend!

Motek

Wed, May 17 2006, 8:38 am

sarahd wrote:

I'm one of the dinosaurs. No one knew from internet when I was in high-school. We studied typing on typewriters. PCs came out when I started high school, but who had one?

We did 8) Around 1979. I played lots of Pong and Snake. Tongue Out

queen

Wed, May 17 2006, 8:47 am

Nope...... my generation (I'm no dinosaur) was just before the "do every project and research paper online" epidemic. In my school days we still visited the research dept at libraries and read books.

Very few of my friends have emails as they got married right after school and skipped the whole tech age. I personally had no contact with internet until I began working.... and even then, was afraid to go on at the beginning.

↑ Inspired

Wed, May 17 2006, 9:35 am

Mommy912 wrote:

Inspired wrote:

Mommy912 wrote:

That's what the 'no access' option is for.

It doidn't seem so.
The poll is kind of useless that way if they are trying to figure out if we come from internet himes or no internet homes. No access would mean the home had no access by coice, not because internet did not exist or was not common in homes.

I don't know what everyone else may think, but I have connections with the person who started the poll and she told me that she was just curious if most people here grew up 'online' or if it was a skill that they developed as an adult. She said the reason that she thought up the poll was reading the 'spelling thread' and reading an opinion that frequent use of internet shorthand causes bad spelling. Since she thought that text messaging/IMs are used more by teenagers than adults she was curious as to how many people here used the internet as teenagers.
She said that she has start another thread discussing the 'choice of internet acess in homes topic' in the past and that this thread was just a simple matter of curiosity.
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Ah. I didn't read the Q right then. Smile

Thanks for the explaination.

imaamy

Wed, May 17 2006, 9:55 am

I'm one of those oldsters. There was a computer lab in my school, just barely and only kinda nerdy people (I went to public school) took programming electives. I didn't have a computer at home til my second was born!!! I resisted cause I knew I'd be addicted. Rhyme intended. embarrassed