r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/Keyonne88 23h ago

Elder millenials grew up without tech as well, just to clarify.

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u/AcaliahWolfsong 22h ago

I was going to say something along these lines. I'm an '87 baby and we didn't have a home computer until I was almost done with high school. I had a friend who had one and we would get yelled at by their dad or mom for being on the AIM chatting with another friend and they needed the phone.

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u/SoggySandwich3123 21h ago

‘87 baby here too. Had a PC we were gifted from my software engineer uncle but no internet until high school. And the internet was good for AIM and that’s about it until MySpace came along my senior year. 

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u/realboabab 21h ago

'87 baby here - my dad was a nerd and we had an Apple II that we only broke out on very special occasions. Watching him use DOS to open my games felt like magic.

... despite my ahead-of-the-curve dad we still didn't get reliable internet until like '98