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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower
By old I simply meant that you grew up without the internet and when it became more accessible you might have flocked to it. It just seemed to me that perhaps growing up without internet would harbor more positive attitudes about the web. The communitites I find here - which comprise the interweb - lack any....honesty, I guess (mainly a lack of true personality). Such a thing seldom corrupts those who've only been a part of it for the last 15 years or so, but those who are part of it and lack strong will power (majorities) will forget themselves -- scifi unintended.
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the internet is a by product of computers and those of us who are older saw computers become available to every household early on. way back in the vic20, c64, bbc era of computing. i was 6 when i got my first computer, that was at a time when to play a game you had to go and buy code books and type all the code into the machine, then save it on magnetic tape so you could play it again at another time. it was a time before the gui existed and everything had to be done in code. you make it sound like older people don't understand the technology when infact i'm sure those on this board are proably far more aware of the technology and it's consequences in a deeper way than the younger ones on here.