Think about that for just a minute. It was the year of the films Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Friends was on TV, Take That first picked up a Brit Award and Dyson gave us a revolutionary vacuum cleaner that didn't need a bag.
Today's teenagers have a very different experience than we did at their age. They have never known life without the internet, satellite television or being connected to the rest of Europe by the channel tunne - and the rest of the world by low-cost airlines.
And, of course, the mobile phone is not anything new to them. Apparently, 97 per cent of 12- to 16-year-olds own a mobile phone. Who knows how the other three per cent cope? They are now regarded as such an essential part of teenage life that one in five young people are said to believe that not owning one is a sign of poverty.
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