Ha, I never had the street lights rule because my dad hated it so much when he was a kid. Plus growing up in a cul-de-sac, the neighborhood did a lot of night games in the summer, so it was never fun to go home when the street lights came on at 7:30...it wasn't even dark yet. Usually things ended once one of the dads whistled for his kids to come home..then everyone else just started venturing home.
My father worked in telecommunications, so my entire life we had computers and often the latest tech. He got a cell phone in the very early 90's and we had broadband about 5 years before anyone else did because his job allowed him to get it for free. I've always been spoiled from that aspect.