![]() ![]() I was first and foremost an iPod Nano girl. ![]() Let me preface this by saying that I didn’t start with the iPod Touch. Most of them, I’m happy to say, continue to hold up even years later. Over the last few weeks, I’ve looked back on some of the factors that brought me joy in my childhood. There is a certain amount of joy - unquantifiable but qualitatively immense - that is a part of youth. Needless to say, there are lots of benefits that come with growing older.īut that doesn’t mean that there aren’t benefits to being young, too. Growing up too fast - turning 10! - would jeopardize my ability to act so youthful. ![]() I was allowed to have questions about the world that were still unanswered, able to play games with my dinosaurs and with my sister’s knights. When I turned 10, I cried to my mom about being too old. I was a kid who was always excited about growing up but not too excited. But fortunately, the above quote is not from 2006. If it was a good day, you’d call your friend (or rather shyly ask their parents if you can talk to them on the phone, please) and find out which server they were on, too. ![]() Open up Internet Explorer, find Club Penguin (or Webkinz or Toontown or Poptropica, depending on the year) and join the game in your perfectly coordinated avatar. Log into your account, make sure you forwarded your chain mail to at least 17 people - you can’t risk dying or not being kissed by your true love - and you’re free. As soon as you hopped off the school bus, it was into the kitchen and to the family computer. Those were the good old days - back when Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody dominated the airwaves of Disney Channel, when headbands, North Face jackets and Crocs studded with Jibbitz were the height of fashion and when snack time was only complete with a pack of Fruit Gushers or Dunkaroos. The above quote would not be out of place in 2006. “We decorated our Club Penguin house for Halloween. ![]()
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