Gen X here. We are the last generation born outside The Matrix.
Latchkey children.
We got sucked in like everyone else.
But we remember:
- playing outside, going in adventures with our friend, ...
I’m a millennial (born 1988) and my childhood was exactly as you described. First touched a computer without internet at age 10, got my own at age 14 and a cell phone at age 17. The “benefit” of being born in a post-communist country is that we got all the cool toys westerners had 10 years later.
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