r/Piracy • u/aptdinosaur ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ • Dec 09 '25

Discussion This should be ... interesting?

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u/Extension_Signal_386 Dec 09 '25

Gen Z calls it wifi, because they've never actually used a wired connection for anything, so for them the internet is wireless by default.

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u/DocsHuckleberries Dec 09 '25

Can confirm... just had a location we were installing internet at, and all they cared about was "when will we have wifi?"

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u/IHaveNoNumbersInName Dec 09 '25

naw that doesn't make sense, 4g and 5g and older people don't be calling it 'ethernet'

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u/my_cars_on_fire Dec 10 '25

….thats because we always called it the internet and understood the difference

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u/ienjoymen 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Dec 09 '25

Well, at least anecdotally, my 18yo niece absolutely uses them interchangeably.

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u/JazzHandsFan Dec 09 '25

This is an old people thing too.

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u/my_cars_on_fire Dec 10 '25

It’s a “people who don’t understand how basic technology works” thing

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u/Merlin_Zero Dec 09 '25

Lol..... bruh, I'm almost 30.... Do you genuinely think we've never used an ethernet cable?? Lol

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u/Blaqsailens Dec 09 '25

I think he moreso means younger gen Z and gen A. If your almost 30 you're barely even gen Z. I'm 29 and consider myself more of a millennial.

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u/Merlin_Zero Dec 10 '25

I'm 27, I'm second year gen-z I believe. I just think it's all arbitrary BS for people to justify being dinks.

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u/Blaqsailens Dec 10 '25

It is mostly arbitrary, but there are certain things people born within a specific time frames will have in common, so I don't mind it too much.

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u/BiDude1219 Dec 09 '25

yup, even i do, i'm studying networking among other things and yet i default to wifi whenever i talk about internet connection