I feel old amongst gen z and often feel stuck in between younger zoomers and millennials. Going from VHS to DVDs to Blue-ray to streaming throughout your childhood was absolutely wild. I went from never using computers at age 6, to smartphones being commonplace in highschool. People only a bit younger than me grew up with easy access to internet being the norm, while it isn't that uncommon for people my age to have grown up with dial-up. It felt like the internet grew up with me in the sense that it hasn't radically changed since I came of age. What a weird time to have been born.

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applebusch 7 points 6 months ago

oh yeah I remember all of that. it was wild seeing the shift from rotary home phones, to the early mobile phones, a family friend had a fucking car phone lol, then blackberry and the flip phones, and finally the first iphone. all that happened while I was growing up. it was a time of such progress, half of it barely worked, but there was constant tenacious improvement. watching all of it get enshittified in fits and starts has been a joy... the worst part is seeing other millenials just accept that things are trash now like its the natural state of things. like... you remember when this didnt fucking suck why are you ok with it?

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tr0xy 2 points 5 months ago

I started with porn sites when it was just images.

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Shirow 5 points 6 months ago

I feel you. I'm at the limit between milennial and gen z and since I had mostly second hand stuff when little I relate to both gen z and millennials.

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Hegar 3 points 6 months ago

Oh well that's younger than i expected as an early millenial, but i think of "puter" as a term from that cross-generational group i've heard described as "analogue childhood digital adolescence". If you were also watching vhs as a kid it sounds like that includes you.

Do you remember, IRC, the sweet song of the modem and the pain of a parent picking up the phone while you were online? That's what i think of when i hear Puter.

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TotallynotJessica 3 points 6 months ago

I didn't use the internet at all until I was 9 or so and even then only for school. Plus, my parents made plenty of use of tech for work, so our internet needed to be better than that.

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QuinnyCoded 2 points 6 months ago

I imagine it was a reference to this meme

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Jayjader 3 points 5 months ago

🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
I want to fuck / my computer / coz no one in the world knows me better
🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/...

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