Post #488191

I agree - mostly. But…things online are RADICALLY different now, vs late 90s / early 2000s. I’ve outlined some of my media and tech curation for my kids above; I would LOVE for them to stumble across stuff like we did. But that internet is long gone…or if not…severely booby trapped. The competence required of (say) a curious 8yr old in 2026 vs 2002 to navigate the online landscape and NOT encounter those booby traps (I feel) is several orders of magnitude higher. I don’t think we can just park our kids in front of the 486 and say “here’s Encarta; have at it. Then I’ll show you this cool thing called a BBS”. Kinda sucks. Still, there are useful funnels / curation pathways. You CAN recreate that experience for your kids…but it’s no longer “are you winning, son?” set it and forget it meme. Now it’s “Daddy needs to be a part time sysadmin and know what’s what”.