Teens Viewing 1997 Internet Training Video
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This one is really funny and informative too. The video is only seventeen years old which means that most college students today don't remember the pre-Google, pre-broadband, pre-always on Internet.
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Is it wrong that I'm 29 and feel like a old fogey?
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Here is the original video that the kids were watching....
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And more of what 1997 was like...
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Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. I love the kid that said he used to sneak on Barbie.com when his sister got up.
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@Dominica said:
Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. I love the kid that said he used to sneak on Barbie.com when his sister got up.
That was very funny.
It's amazing how shockingly old this is to them. To most of them this was the world that they were born into.
I don't feel like things from the year that I was born are surprising to me. I was never shocked by eight track tapes or surprised that computers were in wooden boxes and made from kits.
These kids seemed a lot more out if touch with their own history than most people I know are.
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I dunno, a still find a lot of the pre-internet stuff quite shocking, even though I was there at the time. One of my best mates as a kid didn't have a phone in their house. So if I wanted to see him, I'd have to walk a mile to his house and knock on his door. Only to find he was out, and I'd have to walk home and try again later. Even though this was a part of my childhood, it still seems weird when I think back on it.
Or in my first job, if I had a problem with Windows, I'd have to phone Microsoft, wait on hold for twenty minutes, then describe the problem to them and they'd give me the answer (or not!).
Even sitting at a desk and feeding in 150 floppy disks in order to install Microsoft Office now seems totally weird.
On the other hand, I'm still supporting dBase III applications, which is equally weird.
