John Backus on Twitter: "tired: Back in the day, kids wandered outside for hours without parental supervision and millennials were deprived of this. wired: Millennials got that experience too, it was just on the internet."

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1. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Feb 1
  Replying to @backus
  
  i seen't itpic.twitter.com/4rS3QMFNOW
  
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1. fulano‏ @cowabungatime Feb 1
  Replying to @backus
  
  Millennials are like 35 years old and got the internet when they were already teenagers.
  
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1. James Meece‏ @nexusrageHS Feb 1
  Replying to @backus @_Kevin_Pham
  
  I got both.
  
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1. Wylesco‏ @Wyles_co Feb 2
  Replying to @backus @KikiSchirr
  
  This is why there is a disconnect on the millennial generation. By birth year I am a millennial but my curfew was when the streetlights came on. I feel like the ‘tweeners are lucky that they got both the tech revolution as well as free range parenting
  
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1. Roman Dzieciol‏ @Roman_Dzieciol Feb 2
  Replying to @backus @triketora
  
  As a kid wandering the countryside at sunrise was the best thing ever. It was only on holidays tho and the grandparents lived in a wildlife reserve. Cities were less interesting, even with an ancient park next door.
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1. The Answer is the Answer‏ @bwright2009 Feb 2
  Replying to @backus
  
  Wandering the internet is not even close to wandering outside. It wasn't then, and isn't now.
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1. Danny Iskandar‏ @diskandartweet Feb 2
  Replying to @backus
  
  In Minecraft
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1. Isuf‏ @Isuf80068497 Feb 1
  Replying to @backus @NeerajKA
  
  So it wasn't real
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1. Nunya ฿idness [yalls org]‏ @bennd77 Feb 1
  Replying to @backus @RabbitBusiness
  
  Not the same but I hear ya.
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1. Zach Alberico‏ @zachalberico Feb 1
  Replying to @backus
  
  I remember my 12 year old cousin playing the same cops and robbers type games we played on the playground outside, but online with internet friends in custom halo maps (with the same level of bickering).
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1. Isaac‏ @neocapisaac Feb 1
  Replying to @backus
  
  and now our children are doing it in VR
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