“oh, you know so much! howd you do that?”
“grandma, i literally only typed dir.”
As someone living in more rural demographic, replace grandma with every person with a cpu driven device. To quote my dad regarding his cellular trailcams “Wtf is updatefirmware? Stop making up words.”
The whole “old people are bad at tech” thing is a bit long in the tooth now. Many people who grew up with computers are now old, and many young people are just as baffled by the command line as any grandmother.
There really was a magic learning window 1990-2010, I think. Some people who were there are still bad at technology, and a select few from before are good at it and maybe even helped build those systems, but the prevalence is night and day.
Yes but I’d say it started 10 years before that, growing in numbers through the first few years of the 1980s.
That could be, it was a rough period. I wasn’t around for the beginning, and even the end is approximate as locked down mobile OSs and similarly user-opaque systems gradually came to dominate.
Kids today can still learn computers, but they have to explicitly try. I think something analogous happened with early cars. The first guys had to be able to personally maintain and repair the whole thing, and then over time it gradually became an area for experts and the odd enthusiast only.
y’all motherfuckers need Bash
Give someone bash, and they’ll shell for a day. Teach them fish and they’ll shell for the rest of their lives.
teach them batch, theyll ask for an ibm pc and a floppy
teach them basic, theyll ask for a c64 instead. and a cassette, apart from the floppy
Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.
She was an absolute master at it.
Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.
I bet one of her previous titles was literally “computer”
thats one of the nicknames the school jocks came up with about me
and i just accepted it bc i actually found it fitting so they had to think of another one lol
