35 as of this year. And I can't say that in my day kids didn't cuss, they just didn't around their parents (in my case until we got caught and given a strange stern look). I saw the NES born in the US, dealt with swapping all sorts of floppy disks, punch cards and the like to get a game to work, learning dos commands, memmaker just to get a high memory siphoning game to work, oh the advent of the 3D accelerator and SLi, Half-Life, Counterstrike, Team Fortress Quake, the advent OF multiplayer online gaming as a whole, part of the first MMO, part of the first pretty (sort of) looking MMO (Ultima Online), the first 3D FPS (Quake), DOOM on DWANGO, Diablo LAN's, Diablo II battle.net... and so on. Oh yeah, internet since 12-13 years old and before it was popular.
You want a list of "I had it hard when", I almost fit the bill when it comes to gaming. Gaming is how I became a PC tech at age 15 making damn good money. 20 years of it and I'm pretty well able to fix all but soldering a motherboard back together that cracked (haven't done it but a friend of mine who is a damn wizard with solder managed to do it somehow). Point is all the adversity I met while gaming (not even including the improvisation skills that D&D did for me, learning to think on my feet about situations) has basically benefited me.
Kids these days have it a lot easier than I did, but the tools are still there for them to learn if they pick it up. A lot of information available to them, so long as they choose to learn. I chose to learn myself, it was there in my grasp but I had access to it. Other kids my age didn't have the same advantages. But the same scenario isn't really possible today, if one wants to know about PC's and how to build/troubleshoot them it takes very little effort to get online and search. The adversity does exist in other ways, but being an adult I don't know the pressures that currently exist.
I couldn't say today is any easier than my day because I am not encountering these issues for the first time in this time period. But there are some things that are much easier than today's kids make it out to be.