By: Cold Lurkey
By over-extending your metaphor then, my parents were conceived through snail mail. Signed, sealed and delivered.
View ArticleBy: endless_forms
The Internet is the new sex, and every generation thinks they invented it.
View ArticleBy: Twang
We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish us. - Sherry Turkle Speak for yourself, Turkle.
View ArticleBy: maryr
Please do keep in mind that 12 years ago was 1999. It was not that long ago. We still part like it is that year.
View ArticleBy: Jacqueline
My boss is 39 and doesn't know what any of that stuff is and his eldest is only 3, so I find it very plausible that there are parents of 12-year-olds out there who would be similarly bewildered.
View ArticleBy: fixedgear
I saw MIT professor Sherry Turkle pomoting her new book Alone Together on Colbert. Allow me to summarize her arguement here to save you the time and trouble of reading it: "Get off my lawn."
View ArticleBy: kenko
Most people in the US were not using the Internet 12 years ago. Blogger was brand new. Nobody was using Facebook or Twitter, obviously. How many people were using email? Technically part of the internet!
View ArticleBy: honestcoyote
For a twentysomething in 1999, internet usage would be mainstream. By that date, checking your email, browsing the web, making a Geocities page, watching a funny video on Quicktime or Realplayer wasn't...
View ArticleBy: inthe80s
Eternal September stopped being relevant when usenet devolved into a pile of shit- i.e. almost immediately when easier, prettier options became available. Read any newsgroups lately? Spam, spam, spam,...
View ArticleBy: Nanukthedog
Blogging and tweeting come from people who think they have something interesting to say... most of them are wrong... Your parents learned this back with usenet...
View ArticleBy: kyrademon
Pah. Kids today. If you weren't using the Victorian Internet, you're a -. ----- ----- -... .-.-.- And you only count if you got in on it at the *beginning*, mind.
View ArticleBy: UbuRoivas
Think of a blog as a newspaper that people actually read. The editor clearly overlooked the missing "don't" in there.
View ArticleBy: Pope Guilty
If you weren't using the internet before Eternal September started you are still a n00b. Eternal September stopped being relevant when usenet devolved into a pile of shit- i.e. almost immediately when...
View ArticleBy: doublehappy
This joke would have been funnier ten years ago. When twitter meant "a series of chirps".
View ArticleBy: Auguris
If you weren't using the internet before Eternal September started you are still a n00b. Do I count as an oldbie if I was using the internet before then but I had no idea what Eternal September was...
View ArticleBy: Justinian
If you weren't using the internet before Eternal September started you are still a n00b.
View ArticleBy: tigrefacile
Most people in the US were not using the Internet 12 years ago. Maybe, but I would suggest that a large percentage of people in their late twenties were. All of my contemporaries were.
View ArticleBy: Artw
I think I've heard somehwere that adolescents consider Twitter the domain of fuddy-duddy old people. To which I can only say "good".
View ArticleBy: enn
Most people in the US were not using the Internet 12 years ago. Blogger was brand new. Nobody was using Facebook or Twitter, obviously. That said, the article is way off; it is talking about 20- and...
View ArticleBy: memebake
tigrefacile: So she will likely have been using the internet since before her daughter was born. Of course, she will have been using the internet, but will she have been using it appropriately? "......
View ArticleBy: Rory Marinich
That was surprisingly accurate and useful and even almost funny which is pretty much good as McSweeney's's humor gets so I'll take it.
View ArticleBy: tigrefacile
The mean age of a mother with a twelve year old daughter is going to be around 40. So she will likely have been using the internet since before her daughter was born. I get the joke, but I don't get...
View ArticleThe Information Age's Facts of Life
"I'm getting older, and I'm not always gonna be around the house to explain stuff to you. I know you have a lot of questions, and I want us to be open with each other. So, I think it's time you learned...
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