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Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)

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My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.

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[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm of a similar age to you. In my elementary school, we had to learn to use Windows 95, Apple II PCs, iMac G3s running OSX, Windows 98, and I think we had to type a few DOS commands in for e.g. playing Oregon Trail on floppy disk.

Before us were people who mainly learned computers as command prompts, after us were kids who got OS X as their idea of "a complicated computer".

To me OS X felt like playing with those oversized Duplo blocks when I was used to regular Legos, y'know? Too simplified sometimes, but you could make it work.

Nowadays people barely know what files are, let alone the dark arts of CLI.

It's a weird feeling, having seen technology explode in complexity, then implode into crippling oversimplification. Not like simple tech didn't exist before, like game consoles, but now it's all average people understand.

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