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Life Before the Internet
As our world approaches 2020, I’m amazed at how much things have changed. I grew up in an era where there was no Internet. In many ways, it was a simpler time where I didn’t have as many worries as I do now. Of course, we all feel that way when we are children because we are innocent. Our technology has advanced over the past decades to where I barely recognize the world that I grew up in.
Life Before the Internet
In life before the Internet, I remember crowded streets full of children. They would be playing games like marbles, ride their bikes, have a pickup game of hockey, or they would be at the school playground playing basketball or maybe baseball. Today when I go out, I rarely see children playing outside at all. If it is nighttime, I never ever see them outside. When I was younger, I can remember hearing calls from mothers asking Susie or John that it was time to come inside and get ready for bed. I remember calling back to my mom and asking if I could stay outside for just one more half-hour. That rarely worked for me, but I tried anyway.
“The Internet? We are not interested in it.”
— Bill Gates, 1993
We simply didn’t know what the Internet was. we had no video games to play besides the rudimentary games that were on the original video game systems such as the Atari 2600…
