I was 14 when we got a computer at my house.  The old 14 4 modem, aol, dialup with one phone line...  as a kid id watch cartoons and play nintendo, what kid didnt?  But i also played around outside all the time.  Myself, my brother and the neighborhood kids would run around out in the woods building forts and rope swings and having fires and shit, and be out all day, not coming home until dark, or often well after dark.  I dont think there are hardly any kids growing up like that anymore, its sad.  Nowadays if you let your kid run wild and unsupervized like that, cps would probably take them from you.  Be a good parent and park them in front of a screen and watch them get fat.