My favorite I’ve heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we’re exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I’m finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they’ve grown up on just do everything for them.
Fun story. I took Latin the first year my school offered it as a second language, and they were required to offer any language a minimum of 3 years for the students who started it because it 3 years was required for some diploma programs.
After the first year, the teacher quit. So for the second year they hired a new guy who they were very excited about. He used to teach Latin on a live satellite broadcast to high schools and colleges, which was a huge deal to have accomplished in the 90s.
Well, it turned out he basically read scripts and has assistants give him answers when students called in questions to the hotline, and he didn’t actually know how to teach Latin.
But the class was taught in a computer lab because some of the other Language classes has software for exercises.
And that’s how I spent the entirety of Latin II playing Starcraft.
haha cool.
best we had was an incompetent information systems teacher (pretty sure he was in the masons) who was never in the room.
Anyway someone managed to sqiurrel simcity away somewhere on some of those PCs.
As someone working at a college–yup. A lot of students don’t know how to log out, or find save files. Where would they have learned it, though? You never log out of mobile devices.
I guess you don’t really explicitly save files in a lot of cases on mobile, huh. Hell, even when you do, they just magically save to some predetermined directory somewhere the vast majority of the time. “What’s a file system?”
Trying to play red alert or age of empires and having to fill in a box for baud rate, but I have no idea what baud rate fucking is. Now we need to make another phone call and start the whole process over again.
My favorite I’ve heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
Considering Boomers still run the world, I wish that were true.
Oregon Trail Generation
83 here. We’re a bridge generation.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we’re exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I’m finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they’ve grown up on just do everything for them.
translation: playing doom instead of doing schoolwork.
Fun story. I took Latin the first year my school offered it as a second language, and they were required to offer any language a minimum of 3 years for the students who started it because it 3 years was required for some diploma programs.
After the first year, the teacher quit. So for the second year they hired a new guy who they were very excited about. He used to teach Latin on a live satellite broadcast to high schools and colleges, which was a huge deal to have accomplished in the 90s.
Well, it turned out he basically read scripts and has assistants give him answers when students called in questions to the hotline, and he didn’t actually know how to teach Latin.
But the class was taught in a computer lab because some of the other Language classes has software for exercises.
And that’s how I spent the entirety of Latin II playing Starcraft.
haha cool. best we had was an incompetent information systems teacher (pretty sure he was in the masons) who was never in the room. Anyway someone managed to sqiurrel simcity away somewhere on some of those PCs.
Hey HEY! Don’t you fucking diss doom. I cut my software design teeth making custom WADs.
They definitely weren’t dissing Doom. Not sure how you came to that conclusion.
I can’t really comment on the comparative merits of doom vs scool wrork. I’d need a time machine to get some more experience with the latter.
My only datapioint is that I passed the exams, so doom must have some teaching ability.
I shoud also credit wing commander 3 (with pixellated luke skywalker in the fmv cutscenes) - that was also a big part of my gcse revision plan.
As someone working at a college–yup. A lot of students don’t know how to log out, or find save files. Where would they have learned it, though? You never log out of mobile devices.
I guess you don’t really explicitly save files in a lot of cases on mobile, huh. Hell, even when you do, they just magically save to some predetermined directory somewhere the vast majority of the time. “What’s a file system?”
It feels like a good place to be.
At what age do you think one becomes irrelevant? Around the time your kids are out of the house?
I have no idea lmao. I think the last half is there for a self confidence boost, since it’s subjective.
Edit: Maybe once you give up on slang from new generations?
If this one wasn’t so shit at creating new slang, maybe it wouldn’t be so fuckin’ easy to give up on it?
ah, shit.
No cap, fr fr. 👀
If my life is accurate, irrelevancy begins at 36. Too old to be hip, too young to be financially well established.
Those of us who remember the tale of the land line telephone…
“Maaaaa, get off the phone, I’m trying to get online!”
Trying to play red alert or age of empires and having to fill in a box for baud rate, but I have no idea what baud rate fucking is. Now we need to make another phone call and start the whole process over again.
My first telephone was a rotary. More than once I didn’t call pizza Hut because it had 3 0’s at the end.
Lmao. I remember a rotary but I was too young to be calling anyone.
Ooh, remember the cordless landline phones? I’d always see how far from home I could walk before they’d cut out
Oh, I was never that curious.
I can still recite the home phone number I had from 10-20yo.
My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.