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How many bloggers 35 and older?
Posted by hatingtherain • 12/01/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Copying the teen/20 something thread.
And are we any different, you think (the way we use and think of the internet, I mean), sinse we didn't grow up with the internet?
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We didn't grow up with the internet? I think the internet is older than I am
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Ha! That's true.
I remember learning BASIC in the third grade, like is was the wave of the future.
My first "portable" computer was a keyboard-attached IBM with a 7-inch black screen with yellow letters and numbers, no internal hard drive, and 5 1/4 inch floppies.
These days, having a 5 1/4 inch floppy means something entirely different.
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I thought it started in 94? 96?
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Nope, the internet was developed in the 60's.
The world wide web began later on, in the 70'2 or maybe 80's. -
Al Gore invented it in 1979 lol
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i am way older than 35, and i live and die online -- blogging, tweeting, social networking.
wonder what the hell i would be doing now if all this neat shit hadn't been "invented" lol.-
lol I'm the same as you. -
me too. i have No Idea what i'd be doing right now if it wasn't for the internet.
it's a godsend for hermits. -
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it was called "Bulletin Boards" (BB's) and we used to take the phone off the hook and put it in these cool rubber holders -
Ah the good old days PetLvr!
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I will say, for the record, that I am 37 years old today. (Thank you, I'm having a lovely birthday.)
And yes, I am aware that I look *fantastic* for a pumpkin.-
happy birthday!
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57 and still hanging in there. looking good and because I never post a picture, guess you'll have to take my word for it......lol..... -
@hatingtherain
Thanks!
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Aw, Happy Birthday! -
Happy birthday, MM! I am old as dirt--I am 44. In fact, I might have invented dirt -
enjoy! - happy birthday!!!!
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Yes, happy birthday, MidwestMom! -
Many Happy Returns of the day. And I am glad that you are hanging out with fellow internet lovers today -
Thanks, everyone.
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Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birthday Midwest Mom
Happy Birthday To You!
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Happy Birthday MM
- my avatar - that's me, no really... and I'm only 47 - what a life ! -
Happy Belated Birthday!
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I am quite a few years older than 35 and like timethief and others, practically live online. In fact, I even teach university classes online--it consumes me!
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uh...let's c...18-25-26-30,,,oh yeah! 43! yeah that's it. *whew* almost 4got there 4 a second..lol -
age - it's all in the mind!!!
If you feel young you are young!
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There's no doubt - but occasionally the body rears (no pun intended) up and buckles it's knees just for giggles!
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I'm a bit over the top. I remember carrying a lunchbox computer to a client. It was huge and heavy and didn't do much besides being the object of our scorn.-
well hey, i'm up there too, i can remember when kids actually had to carry all their books under arms, no back packs. also remember paying .65cents for gas...lol and having a phone with a phone cord
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When the t.v. remote was the youngest child in the room.
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Ha! Armywife -- what about rotary phones... remember them?
X-- what about the UHF dial? It was cable before cable. Or, when HBO showed the same movie for three days in a row and you watched it just because, Hey! It was HBO! (I think, to this day, I can recite lines from the movie 'Caveman' starring Ringo Starr just because of HBO.)
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I learned to program in Basic many moons ago, then had to learn LISP, PASCAL and PROLOG, and then hit the internet running around '93-ish.
I'll be 37 on Wednesday.
I don't have a lot of extraneous technological gadgets, perhaps, and I still buy CDs instead of downloading to an iPod-- but I would if I felt it fit better into my existing lifestyle.
And I do very much enjoy blogging. -
I'm in my 50's and am on line perhaps a tenth of my waking time. I do worry about the Internet becoming the ONLY social outlet for some people. -
I am over 35, 43 actually. I think we do use it differently but in part because the stage of life we are at put constraints on our time. I don't spend as must time out dancing and drinking as many under 35s either.
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I am 36, I didn't grew up with internet, I grew up with a Commodore 64, but I don't feel I am different from the 25 kids and below... I've used internet from the very begining, when the purpose were education, information and businesses.-
I didn't even own a computer till 1994(?), when my sister let me play in a chat room on hers. Then I was hooked.
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Me too. Loved my Commodore 64 and the blinking ball program which is the thing I could do on it myself.......you've come a long way baby!
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My husband has actually gone online to get commodore 64 games for our PC because he thinks the kids shouldn't grow up without experiencing them.
Now, they can beat him at Donkey Kong.
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I started in BASIC, too, but once you could start buying software instead of writing every step yourself I stopped learning how. It seems rather short-sighted of me, now. And, for the record, I've been 29 for years, now, and don't intend to change any time soon. -
My kids are over 35. They have been online since they could use the keyboard.
My blog supports my online business. In that respect I am different from some other bloggers. The biggest difference in my generation is I haven't found anyone who 'gets' Twitter.
As for the age of the Internet - it dates to 1969 (ARAPANET). So 35 year olds did, in fact, grow up with the Internet.-
some of us were just a little late getting started!
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Well, not as such - not unless we worked in education or for the government when we were 5. It existed, sure, but that's not the same as "growing up with" something.
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I'm 41. I still think of myself as under 30, but there are days when my body feels over 30 (and occasionally over 40).
Here's when I turned 40.
www.totalbullgrit.com/2007/07/17/forty/ -
I was there learnin' the Wang word processor when it came out and that's all I'll say about that! Anyway, gotta go, time for the Early Bird... :o)
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omg.....this thread just made me realize I am going to be 39 in March aaahhhh:( -
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I think we over 35 bloggers are savvier that people think! I remember my nephew having a PC in the late 80's cause his step dad was big on technology, it caused him an arm and a leg to get it for him but it paid off cause he got a full scholarship to Yale.
The funny think is now I notice that I know a bit more about the internet and computers than some of my twenty something boys.
I guess it all depends on the interest you have in it.
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My Dad and Mom were introduced to the Internet before 2000 when they were both in their late 70s. They lived through the Great Depression and WWII.
My Dad worked on jobs that took us all across the nation and when they retired in Florida they had friends in many states. They kept up with their friends by Christmas cards, an occasional letter or phone call, and even a visit now and then. They were happy and had an old address book where they kept all their friends’ contact information.
After they got a computer and AOL screen names, they sent e-mails to their friends and family — they loved it and were able to surf the Internet and find what interested them. Eventually they both had computers.
Well, during the time when they had only one computer, it broke. They called me on the phone — these people whose phone and US mail service still worked just as it had for 70 years — and my Mom says seriously, “we’re cut off from the world, the computer is down and we can’t get e-mail, can you come over?”
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I'm 36 and it goes both ways in my age group. I have friends who follow my tweets, and then I have friends who couldn't type a paragraph to save their lives.-
Hi fellow 36er. It's the same for me, the fact that I blog makes me a supergeek for some of my friends, but some others are thinking, well it's about time you got online.
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I'm just over 35.
Oh, crap. I meant to post that in the IQ Test thread. Disregard this post.-
Is that Celsius or Farenheit?
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I'd never use Fahrenheit
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Good. Celsius makes you much hotter.
(or was that a hot-flash? I can never tell...)
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I am 58 and I am not ashamed to say I am learning from people younger than me.
I would appreciate any of you who are under 35 years old go and visit my blog. Pick one of my posts and give me an open opinion on what I have written.
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Turned 40 on Thanksgiving Day-
happy belated birthday!
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Happy Birthday
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Happy birthday!!
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Im a lil bit sad coz il be hmmmmmm 40 few days from now (but they say i dont look like my age..haha just to booost myself) and theres a lot of things that i failed to do..but sometimes id like to think thats the essence of life..u cant have everything.... i really miss my friends back home.-
you go girl, I am 46 and feel better now than when I was twenty six!! so rock your age with pride!! You look good girl!!
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50 and happy! My first pc was a "64" and we thought it was awesome that we could communicate on bb's instead of cb's too! -
its a stereotype bc there are people of either group both good and bad overlayed on the construction of age. access and attitudes is probably a larger factor to technology uptake then is age or anything else -
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Bragging I think you are. - Yoda
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I'm 51 and I sent my first email in 1973 on a Burroughs 5400 and a 300-baud modem. Don't tell me I didn't grow up with the Internet!
My friends mostly have blogs and I thought I didn't have anything to write about until they started peppering me with questions about my expertise and I realized that I'll never have a day when I don't have something to write about--so I write about the nonmusical outcomes of different kinds of music--physical changes in the brain, health, and other benefits from listening to or studying certain kinds of music. I aggregate research (mostly studies with either fMRIs or control groups).
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Not 35 yet but it is creeping up. I had Apple computers with floppy disks in my school and we had to program the games on the computer. "Computers are the future." They said and I thought it was incredibly boring.
My mom had a Tandy and my brother being the computer geek he is hooked it up to the internet which was nothing more than words. No pictures, no interesting content just a blue screen with words. I lost intrest until pictures were placed on the internet. This is more like it. -
Yes, I fall into this group..35 and over! -
I'm 37 and have been blogging for a little over a year! -
I remember monochrome screens, having to bring the operating system with you and waiting for the program you wrote to run through the compiler. And I'm not yet forty.
But I am over 35.
Now if I could just get my father to stop emailing me everyday! -
That'd be me...started blogging at 42...still get confused about stuff that seems second nature to the average 12 yr. old....-
You're gonna have to start you're own thread,dr.jay---the "over 40 and confused bloggers" see ya in 5 years!
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I'm 41 this year & I'm just glad for the advent of the internet. Since I ended up moving large distances a couple of times, there's no better way to keep in touch w/friends & family!
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I am over 35..just a wee bit...lol! I love the internet..it opens up so many doors for people! -
Been with computers from the 286 years and i am 39-
I felt that way, last night, at around midnight, when we lost Internet, and telephone service. In the middle of a project.
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I'm more of the "I-know-just-the-right-buttons-to-push" type. lol! And, yes, I'm over 35 - 35 is just a blur in my rearview mirror.
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I'm thirty five years young, Blog about my life..Had my first computer at seven: "Tandy Color computer with 16k Ram".
my first exposure to the "World Wide Web" or "information Super highway" was in 1992. I thought it was so amazing, especially the "cyberpunk artists".
Anyone else who knows these references, well they've definitely grown up with the net at thirty five and over -
Commodore 64 veteran here. Al Gore once claimed to have invented the internet, well, all of us over 35 er's PERFECTED it. -
I'm 37! And still and still rockin', yeah! -
I am er uh -- over 50 -- and have been online since the infancy of bbses, telephone couplers and Radio Shack TRS80s and I am loving every minute of it. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't log on daily. As the saying foes "Age ain't nothing but a number!" ;-)
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I'm 47 and make my living on the computer so thank goodness for it! -
I don't know what I do with out the internet dealing with Fibromyalgia. I have more connects and friends since getting on. don't know what I would do if I couldn't log on daily I am loving every minute of it. It has made up for me not getting what I needed from school. -
In a way I still feel I did grow with the Internet even though I got online in 92, feel like I have been doing this forever. -
I'm knocking very hard on the door of 60. I've blogged for a couple of years but I use my blog instead going the 'print publishing' route for some of my work. I wouldn't use it for broadcasting opinion or blagging personal hates.-
I'm about the same age, interestingly, and use Web design and blogging as a way of getting around editorial and financial bottlenecks that exist in print media.
Responding to your observation on "broadcasting opinion or blagging personal hates." I think I see your point - particularly regarding the vitriolic sort of blog.
However, I rather self-servingly suggest that you glance one of my blogs: Another War-on-Terror Blog ( anotherwaronterrorblog.blogspot.com/ ). It arguably broadcasts opinion - I'm thoroughly biased about wanting to stay alive, for one thing. On the other hand, I try to back up my opinions with facts.
Besides self-interest, I think you might be interested in seeing another facet of the blogosphere.
Hang on - I'm curious about what you blog about.
I'm back.
Nice! I read - too quickly - "Silvered Words" ( wordsculptures-keith.blogspot.com/2008/12/silvered-words.html ). With respect, I think you've got an opinion or two expressed there - in well-sculpted words.
About checking out that blog of mine: Go ahead if you want, but it's definitely not poetic.
Thanks for commenting here: Reading that post was refreshing.
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I'm 42 and I live in internet! I live also a human life -
Humans - I've heard of those.
So, you've actually seen one?
Wow.
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you mean,like,real people...scary! That's why the internet was invented, so I could stay home, and not have to deal with live humans
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Me 38 learned computer at 33 and active online since 34. -
61 goin on 35 and a newbee here. Im finally finding a place to run my mouth a bit. Cancer-isnt-scary.blogspot.com-
Everyone need to talk. I have RSD, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. It won't kill you outright, it takes you one piece at a time.
Make sure you join a support group of some kind. They really help. Or go to sites like mine where there are general medical articles, people's stories on their lives struggles, just like you.
It's good you're ready to talk.............
thematrix777
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My first comp was an Apple II+ with a 300 baud modem.
I used it to post on bulliten boards and play games with my buddy over the phone lines.
Only the math 5 egg heads got to use computers in high school.
I just turned 44.-
Remember when the new, ultra-large, hard drives had a whopping 30 megabytes on them?
Remember when the new, cutting-edge, information storage technology was something called a hard drive? -
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another buddy got one of them 30 MB hard drive thingy's and told us all it would store everything he ever needed to put on his comp. True it probably could of held half of the software in public existence at the time.
Also my II+ had 24k ram and one drive my buddy had 48k and two 5 1/4 drives how I envied him.
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I'm over 35 and I can hardly remember the days when there were no comps....my mom forced me to get one...she started my madness lol -
I was born in 1951, so I'm definitely in the over-35 group.
Unlike many in my cadre, I got some early exposure to information technology: two years of a computer science degree, back in the late seventies. That was surprisingly useful, years later, when computers started showing up where I was working.
Different from the younger groups? At the risk of sounding like an old coot, I think we've had the opportunity to get a little more depth of experience. Example: the current economic situation in America (and elsewhere) is unpleasant. But not exactly unique. I remember the savings and loan meltdown that started in the eighties - and was working in a state employment agency at the time. Part of my job was interviewing people, so I got a rather good look at what was happening in the Red River Valley of the North. The point here is that, after about logging about a half-century here, there's a 'been there, done that' aspect to many 'new' things.
Not that I find life boring.
I've somewhat consciously retained an awareness of the beauty and wonder that's in the universe, in any direction and at any scale. Example: in high school, one assignment was to study, in detail, one square yard of a lawn. I can still remember the tiny snail shells I found on the ground, between blades of grass. And, that spiral pattern is very similar to what we see in satellite photos of hurricanes - and in the structure of spiral galaxies.
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I belong to the over-35 group yet I did not find it awkward to use the computer and the net.-
My kids tell me that the under-35s are awkward on computers, too, quite often.
Games and chat, they're on familiar territory - applications are something else.
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37 here. i belong to the era where my college days we use monochrome monitors and using gwbasic language and dot matrix printers. hehehe -
37 here as well most of the 20 writers at flowers are over 35!!
Bingo anyone?
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Let me get my cane and I'll be right there!
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heading for 45 in 2009 - got my first dial up account in 1995 and designed my first web site a year later.
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Happy birthday! I'm 60 and and fortunate enough for people to think I'm in my 40's. Enjoy every year and know that each person you meet, regardless of age or education, has knowledge that you don't have. I've yet to meet a boring person. Lots of dull personalities, but no boring individuals.-
I am 61 and am also frequently taken for being in my 40s (recent pic of me here: sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/2008/12/our-primary-purpose-for-this-ceremony.ht...)
I got my first computer in 1977...a 4k Commodore PET. Because I lived and worked in Silicon Valley, I was involved in the technology: my then-husband was a manager at Commodore and later a director at Atari. I have had a computer for more than 30 years and internet access for 20.
I have done desktop publishing and computer graphics for more than 15 years. I have taught dozens of people of all ages how to use their computers and the Microsoft Office Suite (people may think it sucks, but I remember Mass 11 (on the DEC PDP11), Word Perfect, and Wordstar...Office is better).
Age is meaningless in this context.
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i've been fifty going on six years now. and it's not my birthday, ever, which is why i'll remain fifty for some time to come, except i know at some point i'll need someone to feed me strained carrots and they'll probably need my birthdate so i can get fed, which will mean the jig is up, which is a phrase i don't really understand, i mean what's a jig anyway and why is it up?
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"we didn't grow up with the internet" ? You might want to revise that statement.
Until about 1993, when Mosaic started shipping with AOL and Compuserve, the internet wasn't really known outside of academia and military circles.
Sure, net existed since the late 60s through either Arpanet, and then the internet as we now know it, but it wasn't really until the last 10 to 15 years that it really exploded - and "grew up"-
ok "the masses" didn't grow up with the Internet. Is that better?
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80% of my business is online, I do a daily blog, update my website, and do guest blogging 2 times a week, so ya I guess I would be lost if there was no internet.
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Actully I am 55 and first started on computers in High School as the first test class on computer science. Back then we keypunched cards and the teacher took them to the university to run.
This thread brought back memories like my 386 that was such a huge upgrade and had a hard drive that was huge at the time and now a small portion of the ram I run. -
I can remember having to sign up in business school for a chance to use the memory typewriter! And that thing was huge!! Boy those were the days.
Unfortunately, having learned to type on a typewriter, I also learned to put two spaces after a period and now I am having to unlearn that for my job. Times change I guess! -
I guess I'm a dinosaur, since i can remember being in the Army using 8088 processors on secure GRid computers. -
I remember using key cards in the late 70s. Now that I'm IN my later 70s, I live on the internet.
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