You are right it would have been more correct to say that by the end of the 1990's the internet was in wide spread use. By that time, Napster was around, there was online video gaming, most businesses relied on e-mail and had a web presence, Amazon.com had been in operation for 5 years and the internet porn business (the largest use of the internet) was in full swing. The 2000s built upon that base and made it better with smartphones, faster speeds, public WIFI, etc.
The problem is, your generation had cheap education costs and costs in general. You had a flourishing economy (outside of a few year stretch in the late 70s and early 80s). People with just a high school education could afford a decent living and "toys." I know it's anecdotal, but tons of people I know that are my peers can't afford "toys." Hell, I went to college for 6 years and have 7 years work experience and can barely afford a small house and my bills. Education costs have skyrocketed. Insurance costs have skyrocketed. The boomers turn around and want to say "well, you shouldn't have got a degree in some worthless liberal arts field." I have a degree in architecture. I know people that have law degrees that can't find jobs. Half of my graduating class went into graphic design or hospitality industry because the construction industry tanked the year I graduated. These are the jobs that boomers told us to strive for with the pie in the sky education policies that have been in place for 30 years. Basically the only protected fields have been engineering, IT and medical related. Well guess what... what's gonna happen when your *** and 75 million other boomers start keeling over? 30% of the medical field is gonna dry up because a) the unhealthy people are the largest proportion of our population and b) policies have made the current direction of medicine completely unsusrainable.
People need to fail some in life to learn how to succeed. My parents let me fail enough to not be a complete pouse-master, but I believe I'd be better off if the time my car broke down outside of savannah when I was 20 that they would have let me figure out how to panhandle my way home instead of picking me up (I paid to have the car towed). Now kids don't even get beat for shittin' their pants at 6 years old. No wonder we are where we are.
Don't act like the boomers didn't have their own stupid *** teen heartthrobs.
Same here. I remember our compaq Presario well. Was probably about 1995. Trying to play tie fighter over a dial up connection and the struggle of trying to keep the hissing and wheezing AOL made to a minimum when it was 1:30 am and somehow got disconnected.
I can distinctly remember not using the Internet until 6th grade (1993). Our computer use prior to then was strictly for playing Oregon trail.
Yea. This happened to my wife numerous times the one year she taught 7th grade back in 2008 (so that would make your 19 year old student her students 7 years later). Between the parents and administrators she quit and took a 50% pay cut not to have to deal with that lunacy.
Bieber is not a role model. If you haven't noticed, only tween girls like the Biebs.
This is why I quit teaching. I taught for one year and was like eff this. Administration and parents mainly.
