I was a kid when home computers were introduced - my dad was really into it and he wrote a lot of his own programs onto audio cassette tapes. I remember watching an episode of "Magnum PI" where a character was using a telephone modem (the handset was actually placed on a receiver box that allowed the phone to literally have a conversation with other computers).

I didn't notice the internet until about 1996 when I was watching the Sci-Fi Channel (back when it had decent programming and actually catered to geeks) and one of the info shows talked about the WWW - "World Wide Wait". I also recall coming across a book about a woman who explored the entire internet in 48 hours.

I didn't get into any of it until 1998, though - I was at the point of wanting to look things up quickly and not have to use a typewriter for my writing.

if there was no laws against hacking i wouldn't want internet anyway

My dad used to tell me stories about when he was in college in the 60's and the first computer he saw. It took up a large room and I believe the room had to be a certain temperature.

I'm 25 and I don't remember a time in my life where we didn't have a computer.

I would have loved to have been around back then, as it is I didn't even have a computer until 9th grade (~2006).
I kinda wish I had been around to mess with mechanical computers, just the planning put into something like that is amazing.

I was and man was it a cool time

When I was a kid, I subscribed to magazines that consisted almost entirely of computer programs that readers typed in themselves.

Not when computers were so big they took up a room, but we had a personal computer pretty much as soon as they were available. I've been on forums since they were called "blackboards" and on the internet since Prodigy days.

I also remember how much easier it used to be to hack stuff. Hell, I could do it!

I'm too young.

I'm too young

I wasn't born when computers were introduced, but I wished I was. But I was there for Dial-up internet and floppy disks. I remember being yelled at because I could clog the phone for hours... I really don't miss this haha.

I am too young, and I'm glad for it. I love all that is available now.

I'm too young when the first computers were introduced, but had to deal with 56k dial up, yuck!