The Next Generation is here
Today a friend’s friend Y was telling us about her 5 year old nephew. Apparently this loveable kid was being remonstrated at home, and guess for what. He bought the same X-box game twice on eBay. (He just won the bids, he didn’t pay for them, Y tells me amusedly.)
Now lets wait here for a frickin’ minute. This is so wrong on many counts. What’s a 5 year old doing on eBay? Wait a frickin’ minute more. How the hell does he even know what eBay is, let alone how to BUY stuff on the site?
I didn’t know what a PC was until I was 10. The internet didn’t exist. I walked to a neighbour’s home to make phone-calls. I first used a mobile phone when I was in college. I was doing a research paper on Google in my Engineering college, when it was just registered as a company, and people were just discovering search engines. Wikipedia and Web 2.0 is still WOW.
And there’s this new bunch of kids, for whom Google, Wiki, mobiles, broadband, wireless, eBay, cash cards, Pentiums are a given. Like TV was for me. Like radio was for my parents.
Goddamit. I’m already feeling old. And I’m just frickin’ 25.
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20 Feb 08 2:41 am
1. 25 IS Old :O
2. This more or less sounded like my Dad telling me how he never got a mobile till he was working and therefore it was preposterous I get one in high school
3. This is more or less like me wondering how my 6 year old nephew nows how to operate an iPhone while I first had to sit and go through every manual in the box!
Im 19!! How old do suppose I shud claim to be?? Right, Im ancient and ur a museum piece.
20 Feb 08 12:28 pm
Oi!
I posted a nice long witty comment that seems to have taken a liking to your blog’s recycle bin. Or is waiting for approval. Whatever the case, we shall revisit my smart take on your calling me old later.
21 Feb 08 1:58 am
that’s exactly how we “seniors” feel when “juniors” act all knowing!! :P.
join the club.
22 Feb 08 12:49 am
hahahah in the last line you atleast accepted that ” And I’m just frickin’ 25″. When you actually turned 25… you were calling yourself uncle! ( nope I am not making it up.. check the one blog on you birthday) nice one
23 Feb 08 8:59 am
hey!!!dont try to compete with the new gen….they r way smarter than us …they r born with better ‘processors’ than us…..afterall they are r next gen models…..
24 Feb 08 11:06 pm
@ Unknown : What’s the point you are trying to make? We know HN likes to act like he’s-not-an-uncle when he is one :D
@ HN : No hard feelings. :D
25 Feb 08 1:58 pm
en (witty/humorous/loves the recycle bin) comment-a kaakaa thookitu poyiduchu!! :(