[jsonne]

Fwiw I grew up in a fairly small town in Illinois a few hours outside Chicago and though I was born in 89 I grew up without computers until I was like maybe 6 or 7? So not quite all my childhood but we didn't get internet until maybe the late 90s so to some degree this does resonate with me. I think with technological jumps like this your mileage may very a lot depending on if you're rich (we were solidly middle class) and where you lived in the US (urban versus rural) rather than it being a monolithic experience with a strict timeline.

[empressplay]

Agreed. Conversely I had my own computer when I was 6 in 1981 and my first experiences on what would become the Internet happened in the late 1980s. It all depended on your parents and where you grew up.