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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+86Do they write your jokes too?
- hrhs556x, on 10/11/2007, -3/+52What the hell? there are kids under 14 that have credit cards?....... wow.
- nerdtron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39I was one of those kids....10 years ago. Surfin' teh intarwebs on my 14.4 kb modem.
- RetroRufio, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27FTA: "Were you one of these kids?"
No. When I was 8-14, I was playing Super Nintendo, and I actually ventured out into the daylight every now and then. - harrier666, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26Back when parents didn't even try to grok wtf you were doing and when you'd been online too long, they'd just lift up the phone. At least my parents did.
- airwalkery2k, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23I bought some things online when I was 14. After I got my first job, I had a checkcard back then that worked like a VISA connected to my checking account. I'd imagine that's what they use, if not their parents credits cards.
- falstaff, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23@ po43292: Me neither, and in those days, I was an early adopter.
When I was 14, there was a Bush in the White House, a war in Iraq, and a new system from Nintendo was conquering the competition.
plus ça change - eatsushi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24I was the one that looked at porn then blamed it on my younger brother.
- froglars, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Are 14% of parents so inexperienced with computers that they need their children to help them with their taxes?
- danarama, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17rock on, don't do crack
- RyeBrye, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15It was hard to be online for 3 hours when I was a kid - my mom would get pissed because I was using the phone line.
Dialing into BBSes and playing MUD games is probably not what this article was talking about though... - Renton, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Children usually have a higher adaptability. If you start out computers at a later age, you'll have a hard time getting used to it.
- kitsonk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15But your younger brother was probablly doing it already...
- diffusio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12my 4 year old cousin is a wiz at solitare already.
he'll be on digg bitching out fanboys in no time! - Sakumi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I loved computers when I was a kid! I'm only 23, but I do remember a time of no internet. All I really remember about that time is football, baseball, and other 'kid' activities. Then, I got a PC when I was 14... annnndddd good game; I was addicted :)
I'm still here, 9 years later, staying up way to late, being late for work (then it was school) due to my geeky habits. Online gaming, coding, whatever, if it's on a PC I'm most likely doing it at 3am.
Now kids are getting to come into a world of computers slightly more evolved and matured, with decent high speed connections.. man. What I wouldn't have given for just a full ISDN (112k baby!) line for my Quake 1 server... ahhh - Almadiel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I guess this means that all of the kids who spend several hours a day outside must be addicted to sunshine. Any pattern of behavior can be labeled as an addiction.
- alaren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Ouch. Considering the first 56k modems hit in 1996 and 28k had been around for a while, that must have sucked. Of course even 14.4k was pretty amazing in the early 90's... my rockin' 2400 external that I paid $150 for at Radio Shack took hours to download the demo of Commander Keen. So do I get geek points for being a child addicted to the Internet before there was a Web?
- badfrog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10"Were you one of these kids?"
Goddamn I'm old... No, I was dowloading .gifs at 1200baud from BBS systems... And playing either Atari 2600 or original NES... - diffusio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Oh man, this brings back memories of my early Internet days... One word, two syllables. OUTWAR.
- ell0bo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9nope, when i was 14/15 I realized what the internet was for, porn and meeting girls on yahoo chat. Granted that was 10 years ago...
- stoanhart, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I really don't know whether to digg you up or down... It's true, what you say, but then again, who cares?
- JoeBaynham, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11I am one of these kids :D (13 ;D)
- ngmcs8203, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Ahh.... regaling the days of mIRC as a medium to download mp3s. Spending hours trying to figure out whether or not that that guy could really find out where you lived to come and beat you up. To be a teenager again with nothing to worry about and not realizing how Scour exchange and Napster would transform the world you grew to love...
- caffiend, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8...and downloading bikini shots of Vanna White.
- danarama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7digg is worse than crack.
- pvtjohndoe, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Yes, it's amazing how many people lack even basic computer skills.
- CaptMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I imagine most of them are using a parent's credit card. Back when I was that young, if I needed to order anything that required a credit card, I would just pay my mom in cash and use her card. It's kind of silly to think these kids have their own cards and jobs... 14 is the high-end of the scale here, I don't know many 8-year olds getting a steady paycheck.
- monergism, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Avoid starting a sentence with a number, but, if you must, spell out the number unless it's a year.
- thrallie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I see this as a good thing.
- KyjL, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7@terri
...That's one of the most horrible ways to make a kid learn about credit. It'll blow up in the parents' face so damn fast. - bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5i think that's a problem with kids today: they don't have the patience one acquires with a 2400 baud modem. i'm 25 and have no memories of life before my computer. i'm sure they're in there somewhere; i've just blocked them all out. i got my first computer when i was 9 or 10 with wolf3d... still one of the best "3d" shooters of all times. thank god i grew up when i did; today i'd be in huge trouble committing credit fraud and getting pedos to call me. that stuff just doesn't work anymore. which, of course, does slightly sadden me. our online freedoms have been incredibly eroded, but only a (relatively speaking) handful of today's current online population really understands this.
- Hardcase, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Huh. When I was a 14, Gerald Ford was president and a computer was this machine that sat in a big climate controlled room. People prayed to it, I think. I was too busy working to get my driver's license and save money to buy a car. Back then you could get your license and 14 and drink at 19. Bunch of pussies today.
- killerofkiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Prodigy FTW
- mariogl91, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I use a "Visa Buxx" or that's how my bank calls it. Basically, it's a debit card that is connected to my mom's card so she can transfer money to me online. I can use the card anywhere in the world where visa is accepted. If I run out of funds, I can't charge anything anymore.
- adml_shake, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5ahhh back in the day, staying up till 4 am on some BBS browsing files and the like, good days indeed.
- bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5and if the number is 149,205,506,740,394.203958? still want me to spell that out? i fart in the general direction of your "rules."
- evilTak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The title is inaccurate. The article doesn't say anything about addiction.
- teaguehopkins, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You still get popups? n00b.
- JFitzpatrick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Was I one of those kids? Yeah.
When I was 14 I had a slew of email addresses my parents had no idea about, a private mailbox at a local Mail Boxes Etc.-type-store, a visa gift card I'd reload with cash at the same Mail Boxes Etc. clone, and a host of accounts with the various companies I shopped at online. All of this and my parents were the in-my-business-all-the-time kind of parents. The internet and the concept of the nearly unlimited reach it had just wasn't in their sphere of understanding. For all the times my mom would make sure I was home by curfew and hanging out with respectable kids... she never once thought, I'm sure, "Does he have a private mail box and a set of fake credentials to purchase porn, knives, and fireworks?"
I can't even imagine the antics I would have gotten away with in a household where the parents just didn't care. - cphuntington97, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4"Were you one of these kids?"
On digg.com, it should be: "ARE you one of these kids?" - SpaceEdge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Just goes to show you that technology is evolving and people need to adapt to it!
- FuzzMop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm also one of these kids. 13...
"God I hate kids..."?
Seriously? Are you kidding me? I laugh at that because you were also a kid.
But, chores...
Yeah, my mom can't do ANYTHING on the computer. I had to tell her how to make a new line in M$ Word. "Well it doesn't say 'return' on it." You've got to be kidding me... She was being pretty stupid. The enter key is in THE SAME PLACE as the return key and she didn't understand how to use it.
Parents; the computer is basically a more graphical version of the type writer, if you don't understand the easy concepts of double clicking and pressing enter, and installing a program, you seriously need to adapt! I guess my mom didn't have a type writer... and seriously, she makes so many mistakes! I wonder how she DIDN'T fail on her reports typed on a type writer. - wootah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@wscc05
I have a PHD in Sociology, a Masters in Comp. Sci and a BBA at 21.
I had a Post Secondary Enrollment Options student or dual-enrollment student (as it is called in some states).
No one cares. Parents could very easily RTFM and learn it themselves. Its laziness. - adamwho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I don't think web surfing will help anybody make new technologies. Getting your hands dirty, breaking into hardware and doing coding is how new things are made.
Web surfing by itself is little more than television. - bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@killerofkiller
prodigy was great. that and aol is where i first learned to program and first learned the concept of an algorithm. the algorithm i learned was for generating fake credit cards though. which worked nicely on prodigy for all of its existence. i now have the privilege of saying i taught myself how to program when i was 12 :P ... Satan X by PainT ChiP and BuLleT ftw! :D - qole, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm not sure if this "it's ok because all the kids are doing it" attitude of parents is better than when I was a kid in the early 80s. Back then, if you went online with your computer, everyone assumed you were trying to hack the Pentagon or something. The kids in my class kept asking me if I would change their grades for them. Damn Wargames movie.
- killerofkiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2are one of the Simon gift cards that you can get at the mall, put as much cash on it and can be used anywhere visa is accepted, even online..
at least that's what i used back in theday - hrhs556x, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5@everyone
Debit Cards are VERY different then Credit Cards - thescimitar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2LORD
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