This AP article should be of interest to those Gen-X and Y-ers out there who think they were the first to discover the net. Heck, we all know Al Gore invented the Internet and he's a Boomer!
May 24, 5:02 PM
Associated Press
"NEW YORK -- Long before teenagers and college students began downloading free music and chatting away through instant messaging, the Internet was a world of baby boomers -- yesterday's youths.
These online veterans helped build the Internet and witnessed its dominance shift from academia to commerce. They've seen usage and manners change as businesses discovered the medium along with people less familiar with technology.
And they defy the common perceptions that the Internet's earliest adopters are teens and twenty-somethings. " More >>
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"Surveys of adult Americans conducted by Pew show that nearly 40 percent of baby boomers who use the Internet are veterans of at least six years. By contrast, only 7 percent are "newbies" with a year or less of experience."
Cool - I sent my first email in '94 so I have 9 years of the Internet - was sending netmail and running my own BBS in '92 :-) Nice to know that there's one thing I beat the average on - rofl
Posted by: The Dynamic Driveler on June 2, 2003 01:28 AM
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