I'm from Gen X. We were born at the end of the analog age and the beginning of the digital age.
I was the kid who could not only program the time on the VCR but also help the teacher set up the projector on movie days.
Learned Basic programming on a TRS-80 but didn't own a home computer until 1998, so I wasn't online during the BBS days.
With that being said, I quickly learned about IRC and figured out how write simple HTML, take over the microphones in the Yahoo chat rooms with a combination of Yahelite and custom HTML scripts, and even wrote my own custom scripts to boot people out of the chat rooms.
And I read so many books as a kid and even spent a lot of mandatory time outdoors.
As far as music, moved from vinyl and reel to reel to cassette tapes to CD to mp3s. Had an iOmega Zip Drive and loaded it with music downloaded from Napster.
And we had 4 local channels when I was a kid (later 5 when FOX came out). My dad happened to buy one of the earliest satellite dishes so we had access to everything before they started scrambling the signals on the pay channels. I wasn't allowed to watch TV all day though.
And played pinball in the 70s, spent rolls of quarters at the arcades in the 80s thanks to my grandfather, and then acquired an Atari collection from garage sales after everybody else was getting Nintendos. My sister bought our family an NES and I played every game I could get my hands on.
I happened to have a stay at home mom so we got to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings but then had to play outside for at least 3-4 hours a day. I was from a large family so we had to take turns playing video games. I ended up playing more than my brothers and sisters because I was good and they wanted to see the games being beaten. There was balance in my childhood for the most part.
I'm from Gen X. We were born at the end of the analog age and the beginning of the digital age.
I was the kid who could not only program the time on the VCR but also help the teacher set up the projector on movie days.
Learned Basic programming on a TRS-80 but didn't own a home computer until 1998, so I wasn't online during the BBS days.
With that being said, I quickly learned about IRC and figured out how write simple HTML, take over the microphones in the Yahoo chat rooms with a combination of Yahelite and custom HTML scripts, and even wrote my own custom scripts to boot people out of the chat rooms.
And I read so many books as a kid and even spent a lot of mandatory time outdoors.
As far as music, moved from vinyl and reel to reel to cassette tapes to CD to mp3s. Had an iOmega Zip Drive and loaded it with music downloaded from Napster.
And we had 4 local channels when I was a kid (later 5 when FOX came out). My dad happened to buy one of the earliest satellite dishes so we had access to everything before they started scrambling the signals on the pay channels. I wasn't allowed to watch TV all day though.