As for those of us who pretty much entered adulthood just as the internet was emerging, we can still only dream about what it must feel like to live in the grownup world.
Witnessing the rise of the Internet in adulthood, they are familiar with technology but face trust issues with it from time to time.
For Europe to nurture Internet companies to adulthood more effectively, he said, it will have to reduce regulatory, legal and cultural barriers to the creation of a single Internet market.
Professor Laura Padilla-Walker (seen on the left) of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University recently published a study in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence titled More Than a Just a Game: Video Game and Internet Use During Emerging Adulthood.
Even though the Internet has not reached "adulthood" (in reference to the beginning of its commercial use in 1995), nothing is more convenient or economical than the Internet for researching and ordering products.
Some executives at online services like America Online and Yahoo and news Web sites like CNN.com are already arguing that the war has brought the long-awaited adulthood of the high-speed, or broadband, Internet.
In this Internet age, children deserve to struggle into adulthood with some degree of privacy.
There is now an entire generation that has grown into adulthood believing that art should be free on the Internet.
The Clinton years, though, featured the passage into political adulthood of younger companies linked to the growth of the Internet, an eclectic group including equipment vendors like Sun Microsystems, EMC and Cisco Systems and software and service providers like Oracle and America Online (now AOL Time Warner).
Matthews's interest in unsolved deaths continued into adulthood, and 19 years ago, he leveraged the (relatively) early Internet to identify Hackmann Taylor, even though he had no formal law enforcement or forensics training.
