growing up in the late 90s/early 00s i didn't have Internet in my house, we didn't have sky or anything like that...I think eventually we got that freesat thing or whatever it was...but at school I was so out of the loop with things..
To me having access to the Internet or a computer/laptop was either at the library or at my aunty's house or a friend's. At school we had a computer room but it was just school stuff we did on it and that was still primitive stuff.
I would go to my friends house and watch her dad dial up the Internet for us to use..a couple of years later my mum was visiting her friend and their daughter showed me videos of badgers dancing and showed me a game where she dressed characters from soaps and it was so surreal to me..how do these things work? How do you find them?
All these debates at school about music videos and random crazy videos they had seen, kids TV shows id never even heard of..just kidding along like I knew what they meant.
Even when I got a laptop on my 18th birthday..I think my dad brought it me and mum put some money towards it too...my Internet was one of those things you plugged into thr laptop and it wasn't a great signal. Even that I didn't have straight away.
These days the Internet is just there...kids grow up with it, my cousins kid..now 19 has never know not to have it. Or a vast range of channels. People's lives are documented way before they are born...things you want to know you can just ask your phone or a speaker in your living room, you don't have to find it in a book or hope a parent knows.
Now in my early 30s I still feel like a newbie on the Internet...I can search stuff, know some useful sites I need and do Internet shopping, search my interests on here and instagram and find thousands of videos of my favourite althletes and actors...but then there's bits I have no idea what I am doing and end up pressing stuff I don't understand and then dollar signs and "blaze it" and pop ups come up and I get in an absolute panic that I'm about to loose all my money or get a virus on my computer or something.
Think I need a crash course in it...my grandparents used to think it's amazing that I could search something for them or buy something to come the next day...I'm here wondering how people "stitch"videos, make pictures move and know what the hell it means to" blaze" something 🙄
Im just trying my best here 😅
