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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.

We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Its sorta a wierd way to say it. Im not the last. There is still a whole host of folks alive my age and older. I have thought of it as sorta what defines the experiences of folks who are born around my time. For me its knowing an all analog world. I mean the integrated circuit was invented before my birth but most folks were not interacting with anything digital really. What stands out is space invaders showing up at the pinball arcade. I was very young. Like my first memories. None of my older siblings had been into pinball but for some reason we stopped in. I think my brother saw one of his friends. Anwyay there was a huge crowd around this space invaders game that im pretty sure was the first time the people had seen an electronic game. Slowly from there you saw other games, the pong at home thing, digital clocks. Arcades became things with mostly digital games and pinball became a smaller and smaller part of the arcade and home systems became better. odyseey, atari, vectrex, collegovision. digital watches and calculators became a thing. Word processors showed up before computers took the typewriters place. photocopiers took over for mimeograph machines. It was only a glimpse in my youngest years but I experienced an all analogue existence for a short span of my life.