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EHM-2029 Sotiris:
I'm somewhere in the middle at 34 :)
That's the beauty of FS. Ages can vary so much and yet there's a common thread of passion running through all the enthusiasts.

EHM-1749 Hector:
66yrs, 9mo, 26d and counting.
Lucky enough for have lived through so many technology improvements, learn from them and fully use them. My first degree earned with the help of a Faber Castell sliding rule. BTW, looking for one for my collection. Second degree with the help of pocket calculators. My first one was the HP35. Can you imagine? US$ 300 and ONE memory. Then the first programmable HP65. My first real computer: Apple IIc + a dotmatrix printer. US$ 3000. A bargain at that time in 1984. In the Apple IIc I started with FS1 when developed by SubLogic before being swallowed by Microsoft. Then the 286, 386, 486, Pentiums and all the stuff we use today.  FS2, FS3, FS4 (the first one that allowed us to build sceneries), FS5a, FS6, FS2000 Professional,  FS9, FSX (got it from the very beginning but not installed yet).
Thousand of hours flying alone. Then FS Traffic. Then Compuserve arrived. Then Internet on dialup connection. Finally Internet 24 hrs. Then flying online. A long but a very challenging and rewarding way. My only regret? Not having the US$ 20 million to go to the outter space.

EHM-2272 Callum:
14, Hopefully on about 6 more years untill i can start flying the big birds:)

EHM-1749 Hector:
No doubt pilots live longer!!!!!!

"A lifelong pilot who was inspired by a young Glenn Curtiss, watched Lindbergh take off from Long Island and held a current instrument rating until he was at least 96 years old, died peacefully in a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., hospital on Sunday. John Miller was 102. As he told AVweb in a 2002 interview, he saw his first airplane when Curtiss landed in a nearby field on his way to claiming a $10,000 prize for flying from Albany to New York City. Miller was smitten from the age of four and taught himself to fly in a barnstormer's discarded ride plane when he was 18. He liked to say his flying career covered "Jennys to jets" and there was a lot of ground in between." From AVweb June 26, 2008.

EHM-2029 Sotiris:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-1749 Hector
66yrs, 9mo, 26d and counting.
Lucky enough for have lived through so many technology improvements, learn from them and fully use them. My first degree earned with the help of a Faber Castell sliding rule. BTW, looking for one for my collection. Second degree with the help of pocket calculators. My first one was the HP35. Can you imagine? US$ 300 and ONE memory. Then the first programmable HP65. My first real computer: Apple IIc + a dotmatrix printer. US$ 3000. A bargain at that time in 1984. In the Apple IIc I started with FS1 when developed by SubLogic before being swallowed by Microsoft. Then the 286, 386, 486, Pentiums and all the stuff we use today.  FS2, FS3, FS4 (the first one that allowed us to build sceneries), FS5a, FS6, FS2000 Professional,  FS9, FSX (got it from the very beginning but not installed yet).
Thousand of hours flying alone. Then FS Traffic. Then Compuserve arrived. Then Internet on dialup connection. Finally Internet 24 hrs. Then flying online. A long but a very challenging and rewarding way. My only regret? Not having the US$ 20 million to go to the outter space.
--- End quote ---


I can definitely relate to the spirit of your post even though my lifespan means I haven't experienced anything like that.
Two very profound changes I did witness though were;
1 - Looking for a phone booth to call home when I was in the army stationed in Cyprus. That was the only means on contacting home.
2 - Waiting until Tuesday for my Sunday paper to arrive when I was in University
3 - I had a PC (old IBM XT in the 80's) but then I heard about this new thing called 'the internet' that could connect computer together. Our instictive reaction was "So, what?"
I guess this has been answered quite extraordinarily by now :)

Here's to the next big thing

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