Personally I remember a life without all of these (at least for a period of months at points). I remember we had a Nintendo which we could only play 2D games, Super Mario was amazing back then. I also remember my house had its first computer when I was 8! (during the early web 2.0 boom, big body Macintosh set-ups) and I immediately took to it like a duck to water, unlike my family it must be said, who still struggle to this day. Not long after we were connected to the Internet. Who remembers the long AOL dial-up?
As for mobile, well I was about 12 or 13 when I first got my cell phone. It was a big motorola (which was later upgraded to a big (smaller) motorola in RED). I later found out I should have kept this phone as they are worth something these days it would seem, but I threw it away or lost it, who knows…
So this is me but I’ve talked to other people and they have had vastly different experiences to me.
My father for instance, he certainly remembered a time without technology (as described above) and remembers the first black and white TV in his street with a remote control on cable, and crowding around to watch football or Happy Days. Older than this people certainly know of life without even more technology.
Other friends (from 16 to 27) who I’ve spoken to, said they remember not having a computer til they were older than me and after me, just as a recession (to which to some extent we are still in, even if it appears to be popping again) started during 2001-2002. Cell phones seem to have been purchased around the same time (normally by said child’s parents not themselves, and always “for safety”). As for gaming systems, well experience as with all varies, the younger end (younger than 19) seem to remember from themega Drive, PlayStation One, or Two in some case.
All very interesting but they all remember not having technology in their life, so I decided to talk to my 12 year old niece Melanie.
She cannot remember a time without a personal computer in the house, nor a gaming system (PlayStation, Wii, mobile gaming devices) or without someone in the house having cell phone. She has an iPhone 4s, a recent Christmas upgrade gift from the little old iPhone 4 (sigh).
So what does this show, I hear you say? Well in all not much on the surface, but underneath I believe it shows how quickly technology has taken off and that people generally younger than 14-15 don’t remember a life without some kind of gaming system or personal computer. Now the market is on this technolgy which mean using a system like Denver SEO
Are you envious of these children? I’m not. And with good reason, I can at least to some extent compare my life now with a time without such technology and feel happy about that. Where as the youth will only know of a time if the worlds technology crashes as was described with the Y2K bug (which never was!), I wish it did happen, but then again I wouldn’t have the job I do now, iwouldn’t be studying what I am, and I certainly wouldn’t be tweeting, or facebooking.
Life’s so busy with technology I sometimes like to try and get away from it, though its not always possible. You need the help of Denver marketing The sound of the iPhone text message, email or facebook update are just too alluring at times. It is was it is, I guess!