163 sats \ 5 replies \ @chovy 27 Jun \ on: What would you do without the internet? What would your life be like? tech
Well I’m gen x and was born in 1974. Long before any sort of internet went mainstream. We had things like compuserv and prodigy which were basically walled gardens like aol was.
As kids we spent most of our time outside. We weren’t allowed to watch tv. Back then I always saw myself snowing a small brick and mortar business. It’s what I went to college for as a business major. However around 1995 I got access to the web and decided that’s what I wanted to do. It was a hell of a lot easier to find work back then.
However now that I’m 49 and unemployable in tech I wish to open a 24-hour lounge with private membership
I'm exactly the same age and can vouch for this. I played outside all day and TV was a special treat, maybe one evening a week plus Saturday morning cartoons of course. In many ways life was better pre internet, but I think overall it is beneficial to humanity. Access to information is unprecedented and it's finally starting to get interesting with the total collapse of main stream media taking place right now, and obviously the emergence of Bitcoin. The calamity that is fiat money was put into motion ironically at almost the same moment the earliest experiments that became the internet were taking place. I can't help but feel that it is a kind of counter force for good against the evil of fiat, finally producing in 2009 the champion needed to defeat the monster.
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24 hour lounge is definitely a good plan
Generation X is the latchkey children generation
The least insufferable generation
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I'm GenX so obviously biased.
However, I do see in general that GenX is least politically strident generation. Most GenX take fairly centrist positions (not really speaking for myself, since I lean very libertarian, but most friends my age are very centrist).
There is a weird similarity between Boomers-Millennials that both tend towards political extremism.
Perhaps GenZ is going to fairly centrist as well....who knows...maybe it goes in some kinda generational cycle.
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Boomers procreated most millennials.
Generation X parents are mostly silent generation.
Generation X is definitely the least strident. The latchkey kid generation didn’t grow up with helicopter 🚁 parents and smart phones and social media. Remember when having an email address in college was exciting? Or Netscape in 1994? This World Wide Web http dot com is cutting edge lol.
Generation X voting as college students? Almost zero
I can easily tell when someone is a millennial. If you disagree they immediately start with the ad hominem attacks.
Boomers were born during a time of prosperity. Same with millennials.
Generation X were mostly born in the 1970s: high unemployment and high inflation
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Generation X voting as college students? Almost zero
Very true. The common feeling was they were all liars. It wasn't even a 'hatred' of politicians, it was just a complete ignoring.
Generation X parents are mostly silent generation.
Also true. Interesting that Boomers were from Greatest Gen:
- Greatest Gen -> Boomers -> Millenials -> late Gen Z (or whatever next is called)
- Silent Gen -> Gen X -> Gen Z
Gen Z is strange. You can see a difference of ones birthed by Gen X vs Millenials.
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