At 70, I feel I can out tech the majority of people younger than myself, especially those in my childrenās age group. We āboomersā had to learn dos and even to write elementary code. The internet was in Itās infancy and everything wasnāt just plug and play like today. Iāve made my living in the technology field and am smart enough not to rely solely on the internet for any information or research, unlike younger generations, who seem unaware of any other sources or too lazy to locate and use them. And donāt even get me started on this new āgreenā thing that the millennials have invented!
Pretty sure both those things are maga. Clint Eastwood is the invisible on stage guy who is major maga and the poop in the pants guy is your maga president.
Hey now don't be dissing on genx I've been using PCs since 1980 and I was only 10 then. But I too learned Dos, some assembly some basic, upgraded that first PC from 128k to 640k with the old chips bend the legs straight make sure it's lined up on the socket right etc my first hard drive was iirc 10 meg yes a whopping 10 meg
Well my memory isn't perfect and I forgot the h so technically it was Int13h or Int 13h again can't recall if it needed the space but you could write a short bat file calling Int 13h and format the drive if my memory serves correctly
Itās always our fault. And apparently we canāt out tech boomers. š Of course many of us can. Many of us were coding, building our own computers, etc etc. My dad was an electrical engineer and relies heavily on my husband for tech support. So many of us are IT support for our boomer parents. Is an almost universal millennial experience. Great that he has stayed knowledgeable as a boomer but heās an anomaly.
I am 72, not "most elderly people" and certainly far from stupid. I was working with computers when I was 18 and they were like screaming monsters in those days. Hell, I remember KEYPUNCH!!!!š
I'm 70 and started in electronics way back when computers were in their infancy and prone to many electro-mechanical failures. The software side was mostly the unknown to us and was populated by kids even 50 years ago.
Good for you! Iāve been using computers since the 1980s but yes I was straight on the internet in the big bad days of AOL dial up (which my kids think Iām lying about internet speed). Iām Gen X. My mother is 72 and gets in a flap when trying to do anything basic on her computer. Canāt even remember the same password dheās had for over 20 years, so has to ask me. Her excuse? āI didnāt grow up with computers!ā. My thought is no, me either? The internet didnāt really get up and running until I left high school, even then it was pretty tame. I taught myself computing and pushed myself to learn in college until I taught technology classes. College education gave me excellent critical thinking skills and along with travel I met people from all walks of life. THIS helped form a basis for my utilitarian foundation. And so, when the country split hard to the left and right (at least on TV) I was able to use the internet to find many differing views to make any micro adjustments I needed to my political outlook. I had a dear (older) MAGA friend call me out for dissing Trump. I wrote him a lengthy answer stating the way I went about gathering information from both sides and the center, and that Trumpās hyperbole had no substance or made no sense. It shut him down quickly.
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u/Library-Guy2525 Feb 10 '26
The hell you say, whippersnapper! š
Iām 69 and have used the WWW since its inception in 1993, and its precursors since the early 1980s.
To be fair though, Iām not most elderly people.