(deperately trying to think what I did of vast importance as a youth)

Yep, nothing changes!

O/T
I was building dens, trying to ignore girls and failing, and farting around in woods making rope swings. I did invent a scaled down sodium chlorate/sugar-powered rocket-engined catamaran that did 20 yds of noisy progress along the canal before sinking to a fiery bubbling grave.