There seems to be a similar general demographic of late 30’s to early 40’s users here… (could easily be my confirmation bias saying that). I was around for Napster, GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo, Mama, AoL, AiM, and if you are ~40yo, you likely were in this same wave of broad scale adoption of the internet by average Joe jr public in the latest 90’s and early naughties. We are the first group where digital life is the rule, not the exception(s) and early adopters; the first gen of internet grandparents… How does that legacy play out. /r
I’m 54. We built this shit from the ground up. We went from zero internet to dial-up as we went from teens to young adults.
We installed the first DSL and cable lines, mitigated Y2K in the field and on the keyboard.
We straddled the digital divide. We’ve seen it all.
tl:dr; Lawn. Off of it.
I came into this thread all puffed up with pride, only to be humbled by your post. Humility is important, thank you. Please accept my upvote as an insufficient offering to those who came before us.
Thank you! GenX is a unique generation. I often wonder what it was like at the dawn of the Industrial Age.