• DrTeeth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Heck, genXers are the only generation who can set the clock on a VCR. A skill now lost to time and technology.

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      1 year ago

      It really is just Gen Z. Millenials were programming shit and bashing everything together with hardware and software adaptors as kids. Gen Z grew up in the world of the slick interface that just works.

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          This misconception comes from the fact that gen X were basically the first crowd to be the bulk of the Internets at the dawn of it, and all of them were technically proficient enough to do it, so there is a bias: you had to know something about computers to be on the internet. Nowadays you don’t need to know anything, the barrier is virtually non-existent and basically anyone can do internets with their phone and some “app” without knowing anything at all about how it works or how to setup a connection or even type an address.

          Most of us were and are pretty dumb when it comes to technology or even problem solving, nothing changed in that regard.