DragonFox91
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Video games were like that too. It’s much more even amongst the sexes now. When I was growing up, it was almost exclusively a boy thing - & a nerdy boy thing at that. Now most people past a certain generation play at least once in a while.You're at a similar age to me, so you're well aware of this. But I work with a lot of young lads (born after 2000) and they can NOT wrap their heads around it when I tell them that the internet used to be this uncool, obscure thing that only geeks got involved with. Amazing really, when you consider that there's only a decade between me and these guys, yet the differences in our respective adolescent days are a century apart.
My mother used to give me a pocketful of coins before I went out with my mates so that I could call her from a phonebox if I had a problem or needed picking up, my colleagues find this impossible to believe.
I have actually found chatroom threads from the late 80s early 90s - and I must say, it makes for fascinating reading. The posts read much more like today's and not like the early 00s slang that came l'8r m8. Btw, wuu2? Plz tb.
I’ve really noticed lately fathers our age who grew up on video games got their daughters into video games.
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