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Even though everyone here were raised in very different times you certainly know your personality and what kinds of things you were into in your teens/20s, so what do you think you would have done, if anything? For example, could you see yourself making a YouTube channel/blog talking about guns, cars, fashion, clothes, sports, what have you?
what kinds of things you were into in your teens/20s, so what do you think you would have done, if anything? For example, could you see yourself making a YouTube channel/blog talking about guns, cars, fashion, clothes, sports, what have you?
I was into working, earning money to hold body & soul together and to support my mother and younger brother.
Doubtful that would have played well on YouTube.
I would not have owned any. I married at 19 to and older man. We were poor and didn't always own a tv or land line and no cable tv until I was in my 30s. I don't see us spending on tech. I didn't get a smart phone until I was 69 or a tablet until I was about 65. I studied computers in my 20s and worked in tech and managed system for 30 years, so not that I couldn't understand them.
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When I was a child/tween/teen, I used to dream that I could watch ANY movie I wanted ANY time I liked. The reality of watching movies at that time, at home, was to watch the 3:30 "Dialing for Dollars" movie all chopped up by commercials, or to stay up until the "All Night Movies, starting after the 11pm news, and see what you would get. (My parents never knew I was doing this.) There were no listings in the newspaper for the "All Night Movies" at that time. I would stay up just in case there was something good on. The commercials were horrific.
Because they had to fill 6-7 hours of broadcast time with different movies every single night, 365 days/year, the programmers would stuff the "All Night Movies" time slot with an incredibly broad array of movies, everything from old "white telephone" movies to pre-Hays code pictures to subtitled foreign movies from the 30's to the 60's. I learned so much.
What a luxury it would be, I used to think, if I could choose the movies I wanted to see, rather than having to watch whatever the "All Night Movies" chose to broadcast, which would include some real duds. Finally, slowly, starting with VHS and DVDs, and ultimately including streaming services, at last my lifelong dream came true.
I have a few classic stories from my teens that began because I wasn't able to get to a phone.
So I probably would have gotten out of a few jams if I had a cell phone.Which probably would have been a good thing--but I would have missed out on some of my best stories, LOL.
I went a little overboard researching colleges. (Guess I haven't changed much, I also went overboard researching retirement communities, LOL.) I can only imagine how many hours I would have spent googling every little thing there might be to know about each place. That would have been fun.
I easily could have sent a few embarrassing emails or made a few you-tubes that I would end up regretting for years and years. Glad I missed out on that.
I probably would have gotten interested in animation and virtual reality at a very early age, and gotten a completely different degree.
I turned 20 at the end of 1978, learned to program in 1979 at CDI (tech school) and started work as a programmer in 1980. I when through a few different personal computers - TRS-80, Atari 400 (programmable console with a keyboard ), Apple II clone (Franklin) with a Z80 softcard to run CP/M and then finally a PC. Since then, just upgrade after upgrade of PCs. I joined AOL when there were only about 50,000 subscribers and it was the only reasonable way to get on the internet without paying a fortune. So I have pretty much always had my own computer that I could program for almost 40 years. I would have bought and extensively used other tech if it was available. My teens were a completely different story, but only because I hadn't been exposed to computers and programming yet.
When I was a child/tween/teen, I used to dream that I could watch ANY movie I wanted ANY time I liked. The reality of watching movies at that time, at home, was to watch the 3:30 "Dialing for Dollars" movie all chopped up by commercials, or to stay up until the "All Night Movies, starting after the 11pm news, and see what you would get. (My parents never knew I was doing this.) There were no listings in the newspaper for the "All Night Movies" at that time. I would stay up just in case there was something good on. The commercials were horrific.
Because they had to fill 6-7 hours of broadcast time with different movies every single night, 365 days/year, the programmers would stuff the "All Night Movies" time slot with an incredibly broad array of movies, everything from old "white telephone" movies to pre-Hays code pictures to subtitled foreign movies from the 30's to the 60's. I learned so much.
What a luxury it would be, I used to think, if I could choose the movies I wanted to see, rather than having to watch whatever the "All Night Movies" chose to broadcast, which would include some real duds. Finally, slowly, starting with VHS and DVDs, and ultimately including streaming services, at last my lifelong dream came true.
And this is how I found Bringing Up Baby. The film was so hilarious I had to laugh into a bathroom towel to keep from wakening the house at one in the morning.
Education and career planning would have been a lot easier. Sources of information were limited, and there wasn't anything close to what Google is today.
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