I saw a tweet that said something like "It's amazing that somehow we were only able to produce a single generation that knows how to properly use computers" and now it lives rent-free in my head.

[–] htrayl@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Meh, maybe 10% of a single generation at most know how to use computers. Technically savvy millenials vastly overestimate how technically savvy other millenials are.

[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Even if it's just 10% of millennials, that still feels higher than both the older and younger generations. I'm in my 30s and a lot of people I went to school with can at least do basic things on the computer, since we had computer classes in primary (elementary) school and high school.

[–] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

fr, whenever i open the terminal on my school pc everyone immediately thinks im 'hacking'

sir that is just how i update my programs

[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think there was a golden 20 year era for learning basic computing. If you were a kid somewhere between 1985 and 2005 you had to figure out some slightly more technical things to use a computer. I'm late Gen X and so was exposed early on to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, but kids working with Windows 3, 95 and 98 would have developed similar skills.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

The iMac was the herald of the end.