The iGeneration

[Harper]

I would have to agree with you then KC. Cause i was not affected by politics, and i most definately not affected by MTV. I didnt start to listen to music and watch MTV till after 2001 in the first place.

Cause i was more along the lines like you where i was more affected by the rise of PC's. I was using my PC more than watching TV or movies for most of my youth.

Pretty much. Like I was a computer nerd. Most of the music that i was listening to when i was a kid (AC/DC, Anthrax, Gun'N'Roses) was pretty much there because other people introduced me to the bands. It was really not until about 10 year ago where i started developping taste for a music choice of my own.
And it's only been in the about the last 5 years so that I even started listening to stuff that is closer to being mainstream.

 

[Phantom118]

I'm a Gen Y, I spent alot of my childhood without the internet and a PC. I grew up in a small northern town in canada and it wasn't until I was 12 or 13 that we got the interent. I remember it like yesterday, lol 28.8k cancom. The only PC I had was an old school Epson. Yes the printer company made my compter. It was your basic command prompt machine. The second computer I got, wow I thought it was amazing, with all the bells and whistles. It was a dell, 166mhz processor with windows 95.

I never have watched MTV and I have never owned an MP3 player or an Ipod. As a kid I use to listen to my parent's vinyls and tapes, which I guess is how I developed my taste for 70's and 80's music.

I spent most of my childhood out on the lake fishing and going to the cabin. Now I spend most of my time at work..

 

[Jorsoft]

We had a computer when I was little but I really was barely allowed to use it and it left with my stepfather when I was maybe 8. We got our own computer and dial up internet when I was 12 or 13. Finally made the move to broadband when I was a Junior in high school because I was tired of dial up and I fought a long and arduous battle with my mother for the privilege of personally paying the extra $15 per month for 256k dsl.

I really didn't get in to computers until I was in junior high, before then I played a few games and that was it.

 

[Atech66]

Nope 9600 was fast and 14.4 blew my mind.
Had a record collection and have installed Windows 2.0 and 3.0
AND WE LIKED IT!!!
We formatted in the snow ..uphill.. both ways.

 

[KSoD]

Nope 9600 was fast and 14.4 blew my mind.
Had a record collection and have installed Windows 2.0 and 3.0
AND WE LIKED IT!!!
We formatted in the snow ..uphill.. both ways.

:laughing:

14.4 blew my mind. Then came 28.8 and 33.6 which was even more astounding. Then came the almighty 56K. How my life changed when that was released. I was surfing the web faster than ever when i got my first 56K modem.

I still remember the old DOS and Win3.11 for Workgroup days. Such fond memories.

 

[gurusan]

I used to live in the Sierra Nevada foothills with crapola phonelines so would get only 19.2 on my 28.8 modem...I used it to play a MUD called Realms of Despair.

Then later played Starcraft and Total Annihilation and Quake 2 Still play Starcraft from time to time...

 

[carnageX]

According to the list, I'm a Gen Y.

I never go the luxury of using older computer hardware. Started out in Win98 when we got our first computer.

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

I don't really remember the days without Internet, but then again we got our first computer when I was 5 (Windows 95 just came out and America Online was a big hit and 56k was "impossibly fast"). We had Internet but we didn't use it a whole lot and for a while I think my parents decided to cancel it. I mainly used the computer for games. After a few years we ended up getting the Internet back (again AOL dialup) and later got a new computer. I think the main reason was to get a faster modem which the new PC came with, but we did need it. After a few more years I used the PC more and more and eventually decided we needed to upgrade. We got a new PC (my AthlonXP) and I got it in my room...but since my room had no phone jack...no Internet. Everyone else seemed to have cable and I didn't, so eventually I pressured my parents enough that they decided to ditch LOL@AOL and get Charter. After that I finally had the full Internet, could download and browse freely without tying up the phone line, etc.

I also remember old stuff like cassette tapes and VHS, we didn't get a DVD player for a few years after they came out. I also had a Genesis when I was like 5 and it was the most awesome thing in the universe...Sonic was the best game ever. I only started playing Mario games after I got a Game Boy Color when they released in 1998.

 

[carnageX]

Oh god I played Genesis forever. Had a NES, but my older bro took it when he moved out when I was still young. So I got to play the Genesis (still have it, and it still works ).

 

[Jorsoft]

:laughing:

14.4 blew my mind. Then came 28.8 and 33.6 which was even more astounding. Then came the almighty 56K. How my life changed when that was released. I was surfing the web faster than ever when i got my first 56K modem.

I still remember the old DOS and Win3.11 for Workgroup days. Such fond memories.

Being broke I developed a convenient fetish for old school hardware adn software. I've torn apart more than a few 8086-80486 based computers, ran through all versions of Windows, OS/2, DOS, and GEOS. Lately I'ev been getting the hankering to tinker around with OS/2 again in it's natural form so I might be on the lookout for like a 386 if I can find one.

The true mark of a man is he who has configured his sound cards manually.