Yes, it was wild. I had to do everything the old fashioned way my whole childhood only to be pushed out into a modern work force after college where I quickly caught up with all the new ways.

My grandmother had a lot of technology that was even dated for the time like rotary phones and black and white TVs. People from that generation hated to throw stuff out. I was the oldest grandchild so I had to know how to dial her phone. Thankfully, they taught me so young that I can do it in my sleep.

I spent more of my childhood under 18 without home Internet than with it. I had to use card catalogs all the way through college. My first summer job as a teenager still had a manual knuckle buster credit card machine.

Then I graduated college in 2006 and suddenly it’s starting to get all about the Internet. I definitely pulled a few fake it til you make it moments at my first job out of college.