An individual born around 1980 doesn’t necessarily own a computer, or even fully understand how to operate one, but he or she is still asked to participate in a society permeated with the technology. In many cases, there is a commonly-accepted expectation of computer knowledge from these younger members of society. Many of those 80s-era kids-myself included-became well-established participants in the activities of cyberspace. I affectionately refer to this segment of the now twenty-something generation as the “cyberkids” and I am particularly interested in how their development has progressed. For one thing, it is the year 2002 and the “cyberkids” aren’t kids anymore…
