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Heard this question on NPR... what do you think?

I don't know. Can I go on without the Internet? Hard for me to think about what it was like before this. Maybe the Internet made me forget this.
Great question as usual Kirsten.

It is hard to remember what it was like to not have the world at your fingertips. Just remember the research needed before to answer a simple topic that now can be spoken into your phone and the answer just pops up. I still remember my Grandmother when I was just graduating high school talking about how her church preached that computers would be the devils playground mark of the devil and all that.

Not at all, because I still have that brain! That's what makes all the websites, internet terms, etc., so challenging. It does not come natural to me. You could say I was dragged into the computer age kicking and screaming.

I still have mine. I check in first thing in the morning and then I'm done with the internet until tomorrow.

I am 66 and have owned my own computer for more than half my life. The internet has only become useful for the last 18 years or so. Research is so much easier now. I remember having to write letters and visit the library to do it. My current business would be impossible without it.

My dad was a systems analyst for Boeing. I remember him bringing home a device that was a keyboard/printer with a place in the back for a phone headset. He would play games with some other computer. I think the first one was called "Zork" or something like that.

My kids can't fathom the thought that back when I was in school, there was no internet.