1) everything thatโs already in the world when youโre born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after youโre thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until itโs been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Douglas Adams on getting used to the Internet in 1999