05-12-2003, 02:55 AM
Hail Ghostiger,
Aye, I was thinking a similar thing a little while ago. When I first joined my Diablo guild, I was about the second or third youngest member: I was just a kid in the middle of high school. Now, I'm probably still one of the younger - though far from youngest - members (to be honest, I never ask people their ages: I just figure out roughly what they are from conversation; eg "At school today...", "Back from a lecture...", etc), but I am about where the average age was back when I joined.
I then went from that line of thinking back to when I first used the Internet. I was only a little kid - I think about 10 or so - and had no comprehention of what it was, let alone what it was to become. I'd spend my time looking for pictures of my favourite cartoon caracters; I didn't know much beyond that. At about 12, I discovered online gaming, but didn't like it at the time - people didn't seem friendly. It wasn't until I was 15 I tried that again.
Heh, I've come a long way from those days ;) Of cause, back then I hardly knew what Windows was - my PC couldn't run it: Windows was just that program on the Internet PC. I knew how to program a little, but didn't really understand what was going on at a lower level. I knew basic electronics, but it was not until a couple years later I learned how PC hardware worked, or how to build a PC. I had seen a mainframe, but couldn't comprehend the difference between it and a PC - that one cracks me up these days :P I used to wish I had a 286, to I could play the latest games... though, really, I probably still would have only played my old favourites. Oh, and I *knew* that the best games always came on casette - though, I never was able to complete any of them.
Funny how we grow up with some things, eh? There cannot be too many things in our lives like that. Not too many of us would watch the same cartoons as we did when we were kids; we'd likely read different things too. We would listen to different music, and some of us have even moved to different cities; states... even countries! Yet, as is for me and likely for many others here, the computer has been around most of the time; one of the few constants. Odd when you think about it, eh?
Aye, I was thinking a similar thing a little while ago. When I first joined my Diablo guild, I was about the second or third youngest member: I was just a kid in the middle of high school. Now, I'm probably still one of the younger - though far from youngest - members (to be honest, I never ask people their ages: I just figure out roughly what they are from conversation; eg "At school today...", "Back from a lecture...", etc), but I am about where the average age was back when I joined.
I then went from that line of thinking back to when I first used the Internet. I was only a little kid - I think about 10 or so - and had no comprehention of what it was, let alone what it was to become. I'd spend my time looking for pictures of my favourite cartoon caracters; I didn't know much beyond that. At about 12, I discovered online gaming, but didn't like it at the time - people didn't seem friendly. It wasn't until I was 15 I tried that again.
Heh, I've come a long way from those days ;) Of cause, back then I hardly knew what Windows was - my PC couldn't run it: Windows was just that program on the Internet PC. I knew how to program a little, but didn't really understand what was going on at a lower level. I knew basic electronics, but it was not until a couple years later I learned how PC hardware worked, or how to build a PC. I had seen a mainframe, but couldn't comprehend the difference between it and a PC - that one cracks me up these days :P I used to wish I had a 286, to I could play the latest games... though, really, I probably still would have only played my old favourites. Oh, and I *knew* that the best games always came on casette - though, I never was able to complete any of them.
Funny how we grow up with some things, eh? There cannot be too many things in our lives like that. Not too many of us would watch the same cartoons as we did when we were kids; we'd likely read different things too. We would listen to different music, and some of us have even moved to different cities; states... even countries! Yet, as is for me and likely for many others here, the computer has been around most of the time; one of the few constants. Odd when you think about it, eh?
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.