Tweet this! Life Before & After the Internet

If you were born anywhere around 1985, say within 2 years, you have lived a good portion of your adolescent and young adult lives within two distinctly different worlds. You have experienced life both without the internet, and life with the internet.

There is a significance about this generation. People older than us grew up learning mostly how to live in a world where the internet didn't yet exist. People younger than us are learning about the internet, and even from the internet, as early as pre-school. 

We are the first generation to know what it was like to have to call a friend at home, on a landline phone, when we were 13, and to have that method totally replaced by instant messaging and sms by the time we were 18. 

Think about the time you spend on facebook, myspace, blogging, instant messaging, or just surfing the web every week. Now think about all those hours, and that before the internet you would have spent that time doing something else.

Life has changed dramatically from the life we had, and also from the life we expected to have based on what we grew up with. 

So the thought for this week: Every time you sit down at a computer to check something like facebook or perez hilton, think about life without the internet. Even when you pick up your cell phone to call or text someone, think about how it was different 10 years ago.