"I didn't have that technology. I was poor".

Economic injustice is no laughing matter, but how are we ever going to meaningfully define how different generations interfaced with technology if every technology discussion turns into a roll call of people claiming they didn't get their hands on a given technology until 5 years after it became popular?

I'm sure some of these accounts are genuine, but I suspect some of them are kind of bending the truth, and using the gravity of economic injustice to insist that their opinion is beyond questioning.

It's valuable to hear accounts of the past from people who grew up in a different background than you. But it seems there's an uncanny shortage of posters who will concede that "yes, I obtained that technology around the same time that it became widespread".