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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)

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

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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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[-] legion@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

The discussions here about how "today's tech is so dumbed down" kinda makes me laugh, because it's what I was saying when Windows 95 released.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll write my own config.sys and autoexec.bat in DOS like god intended, thank you!

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think auto exec.bat is a thing DOS can understand.

autoexec.bat is what you want.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Auto-correct. It's fixed.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

I know. I was just making the easy joke.

[-] jemorgan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, windows 95 was kind of the tipping point for consumer GUI-first general purpose computing, right? For the common person, using a computer went from reading manpages and learning syntax (at least the bare minimum required to launch a GUI shell), to being presented with a much more limited set of easily discoverable operations.

Gen Z using chromebooks and iPads are just the extension of that. The operations exposed by an application are generally way more limited than they were on windows 9x, and also way more discoverable.

See kids can’t use computers

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As a gen-z, no one would use chromebooks if they had the option not to. Schools force them on everyone.

[-] jemorgan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah nobody is blaming you homie.

[-] 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.

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