[coldtea]

>I'm just old enough to have spent the first ~14 years of my life without any personal computing devices, and I remember the boredom being agonizing.

If you lived in a farm 200 miles from any kid in rural Nebraska maybe. And even there there would be tons of adventures to have on one's own.

[CleaveIt2Beaver]

Trying to argue around the circumstances of a one-line anecdote is peak HN. Your experience of the world doesn't invalidate theirs, and vice versa.