How quick did you adapt to the internet

[Nyati]

Adapt ?? You think your generation has invented anything ??

In the office I have seen punched cards, punched cards with magnetic strip, floppies, diskettes of several sizes, magnetic tapes, CD Roms, all of these before your generation was even born.

Phones ? My first cellular was a Motorola Microtac 1989 !

Before Internet large corporations had their own Intranet.

So you see, most of us in the business world never had to adapt to Internet, we just grew with it.

 

[Savage Hunter]

Avoided it for several years.
Then my daughter hooked me up with high school friends in literally 5 minutes after 20 years of no contact.
Now it's basic life for everything

her high school friends or yours?

 

[Alistair]

Adapt ?? You think your generation has invented anything ??

In the office I have seen punched cards, punched cards with magnetic strip, floppies, diskettes of several sizes, magnetic tapes, CD Roms, all of these before your generation was even born.

Phones ? My first cellular was a Motorola Microtac 1989 !

Before Internet large corporations had their own Intranet.

So you see, most of us in the business world never had to adapt to Internet, we just grew with it.

Hah.

In the (misquoted) words of Bane:

"Oh, you think the internet is your ally. But you merely adopted the internet; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the real world until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The software betrays you, because it belongs to me!"

Seriously though, anyone old enough to have ever had the need to look in a physical book for anything, ever, is not an internet native. I talked to my mother about her time in Uni in the 80's, and it's a completely different world. The very idea of having to write a dissertation, or anything at all for that matter, without the consolidated knowledge of humanity literally at my fingertips, is baffling.

 

[Wade J VanGinkel]

her high school friends or yours?

Mine

 

[Major Khan]

I learnt fairly late in life . I got introduced to the internet in 2008 . I was already 68 years old at the time . My friend and fellow forum member , @Kawshik Rahman 's niece introduced me to the concept of the internet . I love to read and so l would often make her down load many books for me and print them out for me to read. Eventually l learn how to use the internet to download my own books , and from then onwards things became increasingly easier . I learnt how to search things on " Google " that interest me , how to use an international credit card to make on line purchases , how to see films on you tube and so on .
I used a desk top computer at 1st. In 2017 , l purchased a nice One Plus 3T smart phone ( which l currently use and love very much ) and learnt how to use it with the help of a few kind younger members in my friend circle . After l joined African Hunting Forums, l purchased an I Pad , so that l can write my articles for African Hunting Forums a little easier.

 

[Jfet]

Can you imagine planning a safari like Theodore Roosevelt planned his safari?

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Slow but steady having started out using a Commodore 64 all those many years ago. One machine on a wheeled cart shared by approximately 60 Engineers. But before that there was "Fortran." But even now, nothing is intuitive. Every new device or "language" is a challenge. BTW have you asked your parents that question?

Shootist43
Using Fortran gives your age away, mate I remember writing programs in Fortran, Cobol,and Pascal. Mate that's a lifetime ago.
I'm very luck to have a 15 year old son to help me navigate the new stuff otherwise I'd be screwed.
Took me ages to learn the basics of a smart phone.
Cheers mate Bob.

 

[tigris115]

Well, children naturally pick up things with astounding speed. I'm sure there are studies to verify this but I don't feel like getting them

 

[Newboomer]

Back in the dark ages when I was growing up we didn't have a phone til I was in High School. That was a 3 digit party line with 8 people on the line. First portable phone was a bag phone, then a flipper. About 10 years ago my daughter browbeat me into a smart phone that I still haven't completely figured out.

I got a Sony computer that had it's own language and used floppies when I was in college. Never did get the hang of that beast. It was an improvement over Britannica and index cards and typing on a Smith-Corona manual.

As is evident by this post I have graduated to a pc and love it even though I don't know much about it. Still can't get pics and stuff from my phone onto it. Frustrating as hell, too. I read posts and think of what I could post. Amazing what I can screw up with the touch of a button.

Seriously, though, I have the world at my fingertips. I can find anything I want with a few keystrokes. Wouldn't have it any other way so I guess something can be said for progress.