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lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.
I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.
My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.
tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.
Tldr; you got your feelings hurt over a meme
Gen x doesn't have feelings
My grandpa was a robotics engineer and thus knew how to use a PC quite well but watching him operate Windows 10 basically without utilizing any tools that came after DOS was bizarre.
To Microsoft’s credit, they have historically been very good about ensuring backwards compatibility. There are a few notable exceptions, but for the most part you can treat Windows as if it is DOS, and it still mostly works.
j/k That's awesome.
They aren't saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they'd be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.
The problem is their dates are off. Home Computers went mainstream in 1977 with the Apple II.
I saw this as a millennial and immediately thought to myself “did they forget GenX built the internet?”
I'm a xennial or whatever you wanna call us and I can't stand the generational cold war that takes place in our society
The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.
You're all educated professionals. This meme is more about your average user.
Conversely, me and my whole family is dumb as fuck, every generation.
I agree with this person!
Totally normal response to a meme.
Actually agree.
By age I would be late gen-Z / almost gen-A. I grew up in rural middle-east and was introduced to home internet for first time in highschool(2020)
Where would I fall?
First introduction to Internet in late highschool or College means you're a gen X.
You can keep still, or whatever, but frankly it doesn't matter. You don't matter. Your parents (Boomer's) mortgaged your generations, and everyone since, future for a pointless capitalist nightmare.
Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?
Go study a trade, ffs