i do not attempt to make money, but it would be a nice side of the job, also would it be possible to send me the links of these stats, and also what where these gamer, product and surveys sites. the olny one i can find is toluna.com and that has technical problems and does not let you transform pints in to vouchers or raffles

“Computers are an integral part of a teenager’s life as internet existed when they were born.” This sentence or the paragraph does not say anywhere that “today’s teenager is part of the first generation of teenagers.”

Since the article was written recently, it should be pretty obvious that we are talking about 2008 teenagers, who are between the ages 13 and 19 today, and not someone who WAS a teenager years before.

If you try and understand the idea behind this article, you would know that it is meant to give a basic idea on how teenagers can make money online. Today’s teenagers were born and raised in a digital world, where computers and internet existed and are therefore well-versed with them.

Having said that, I must thank you for your comment. It would have been better to say “today’s teenager.”

Hope that makes the article more readable!

Actually, ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the original “Internet” was developed in the 1960′s and launched in 1969. (To be precise, the first message ever to be sent over the ARPANET occurred at 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 29, 1969.) On Jan. 1, 1983: the ARPANET officially changed to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. On Aug. 6, 1991: Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) launched his pet project, the World Wide Web. Perhaps this is what you were referring to (but simply didn’t know or else were being lax in your terminology – the World Wide Web is *part* of the Internet, not the Internet. However, even at the time of the “birth” of the WWW, the “about-to-be” teenagers were kids born in 1979. Or are you referring to the generation that was born after late October, 1991? Those people are now 16, it’s true. But you could have been much clearer. Personally, I was born in 1973, and was online in 1985 – I was 12. By “being online” I obviously mean that I was in contact with other people over the Internet, the majority of whom were older, but certainly not all.

Here is some more history to put it into context:

Before the WWW, ordinary people (i.e. people who were not necessarily scientists), were connected to the internet via their modems (in 1978 Hayes begins to sell the first commercial modem, capable of 300 baud.) At the end of the 1970′s, and throughout the 1980′s people started connecting to each other via their computers using various protocols and service such as (and these are not listed in order of invention or availability) AppleLink, Q-Link, PC-Link (all of which would later become America Online), Prodigy, Compuserve, BBS’s (Bulletin Board Services), Newsgroups, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), etc….

I get what you were trying to say, but not only was it poorly worded, it was misleading. Hopefully you will post this reply for people who are interested in a more researched/knowledgeable perspective. Where do you think the workforce for the “Internet Bubble” of the 1990′s came from? Not the toddlers to pre-teens that your article is about!