The things you describe sound more bleeding edge and free-form than the combo of bukkit servers, skype, and flash games I was messing with around that time yet in their ends they kinda did the same thing. Setting up my own bukkit server and port-fowarding it for friends was probably the most technically involved thing I managed to set up around that age short of bricking an early android phone when I first discovered XDA-developers was a thing (ouch).
The things I see kids doing now are impressive. For every spam tabloid story I see of a kid being stumped by windows explorer I see another kid making youtube videos of how they pmprovised a (bad) vr setup out of a google cardboad and an xbox 360 kinect. Kids these days armed with video tutorials scare me but so do the platforms that actively try to court them...
Honestly I have no idea what the "kids these days" use as their ends for this same kind of stuff, java minecraft and discord, though I notice the kids that do care about computers seem to be getting steam accounts earlier and earlier which is wild to me.
The things you describe sound more bleeding edge and free-form than the combo of bukkit servers, skype, and flash games I was messing with around that time yet in their ends they kinda did the same thing. Setting up my own bukkit server and port-fowarding it for friends was probably the most technically involved thing I managed to set up around that age short of bricking an early android phone when I first discovered XDA-developers was a thing (ouch).
The things I see kids doing now are impressive. For every spam tabloid story I see of a kid being stumped by windows explorer I see another kid making youtube videos of how they pmprovised a (bad) vr setup out of a google cardboad and an xbox 360 kinect. Kids these days armed with video tutorials scare me but so do the platforms that actively try to court them...
Honestly I have no idea what the "kids these days" use as their ends for this same kind of stuff, java minecraft and discord, though I notice the kids that do care about computers seem to be getting steam accounts earlier and earlier which is wild to me.