[SonnyTark]

On paper, I'm younger than most of these but I've lived in a closed-in country under an authoritarian regime that actively blocked technology from getting in as it saw free information as a threat to its survival. When I used the internet for the first time, it was already the era of messengers and mmos. It took several years until I saw the first Nokia mobile phone, they already had a color display one out at the time so it was marvelous. Computers were seen as a luxury, classified the same as typewriters and/or game consoles so very few people understood what they were and fewer had one that's usually a decade or two old.

I've experienced most of what this blog post describes despite the fact it was after 2000! and when change came it was abrupt and violent, almost like being surrounded by a technological theme-park all of a sudden. It was at times funny to see how some people who have never owned anything more advanced than a CRT tv try to figure out how to use a smart phone, I distinctly remember this one older guy who hit the breaks in the middle of the road then pulled over and got out of his car to receive what must have been one of the first mobile phone calls of his life.

[selimthegrim]

Serbia? Syria?