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by Markoff·9y ago·view on hn ↗
i find it amusing when i am considered millennial because i was born in beginning of 80s, since i abandoned Facebook, never been on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other nonsense, but i remember BBS, Fido, connecting modem sound, turbo buttons, ZX spectrum,C64, etc.

while my cousin who is like bit more than 10 years younger feel already like entirely different generation with all his social crap and online games

though it's also funny how some people think smartphone is new millennial thing, i was using extensively my mobile already in 90s more as smartphone/PDA than many people nowadays and later in 00s i was already emailing, chatting, surfing, listening music, playing games long time before iPhone was introduced, though young people tend to think we were on trees before

recently i read comments to YouTube video (A long way home or something like that about walking through China and growing beard) where were young people suspicious how good was quality of photos in some video in 2009 as if before smartphones we didn't have good handheld cameras, seem to me that newer generation is more shallow and ignorant with shorter and shorter attention span, now we were pretty ignorant and shallow in 90s too, but at least we could keep attention to something without being disturbed by every present social media

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