564
submitted 1 year ago by jcrabapple@dmv.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sort of. Macs were doing this in the 80's but they were super expensive. Still a popular option for schools, though. Growing up, we usually had Apple II's in class (88-93ish) with Macs in some classrooms. It wasn't until around the '95 era or just before that home computers became affordable, so it's probably most people's major exposure to GUI computing. Prior to '95, if you had a computer in the home, it was probably DOS-based and you maybe used WIn3.1. But Win3.1 wasn't great, and quite a lot of home computers at this time were too underpowered to do much running it, so although I had access to Win3.1, in practice even at about 10yrs old, I just booted to DOS and often had to run programs off of floppies because HDD space was super limited and very expensive. When '95 dropped, it was definitely a paradigm shift in my house to go to that being the primary interface instead of DOS.

[-] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OS/2 had a following back then too. I was running BBS software on it, around the time of Win95's release. I'd started dabbling with Linux, but h/w compatibility was an issue back then - I ran it without X for a year or so, and it beat DOS in many ways. When I got X working, OS/2 lost most of its value to me. I do remember missing REXX though.

this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
564 points (95.8% liked)

Ask Lemmy

27027 readers
749 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS