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Avicebron on April 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The case for banning children from social media

Well social media as it exists today didn't exist when I was first starting out online, but I doubt I'd be in the position I am today without having free reign (my parents weren't super tech savvy) on the internet as a 9-10 year old and later.

That's around when I started programming, where I got all the materials I could, made some warcraft 3 mods, that catapulted me pretty far..

snvzz on April 5, 2023 [–]

I did most of that w/o being online, with an Amiga 500.

Only got a PC and later Internet at home once I was 16.

There's literally no reason for a minor to "need" access to Internet.

mixmastamyk on April 5, 2023 | [–]

First used it at age 24 at work, learned socket programming two years later.

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