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> One of the reason for the lack of diversity is that people born before 1975 haven't really experienced the internet revolution like those of us born in the 80

by jnbiche 11y ago

> One of the reason for the lack of diversity is that people born before 1975 haven't really experienced the internet revolution like those of us born in the 80s and 90s have. What does that even mean? We lived through the Internet revolution. And even we can't claim to have invented it, because that was the generation before us (Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, etc). It's exactly because of this kind of mindset that it's becoming increasingly hard for 40-somethings to find decent employment in development, and (along with corporate culture) a strong factor in the trend toward becoming managers once we hit mid-30s. You're going to find the next 20 years enlightening, that's for sure.

JohnBooty 11y ago
> What does that even mean? We lived through the Internet revolution. I was born after 1975 (barely - the Internet revolution happened when I was in high school and college) so I'm not just sticking up from myself here when I say that a lot of people born before 1975 really do "get it." Almost anybody who spent ten minutes using BBSs in the 1980s knew that some kind of connected thing was going to be the future. It was nearly inevitable. Maybe it would have been a bunch of closed CompuServes and Prodigies, maybe it would have been a BBS in everybody's home, maybe it would have been something global and semi-mostly-kinda open like the Internet. Whatever the form, that generation knew that connectedness was the next logical step. You can see it in sci-fi of the era (Neuromancer, etc) ...they weren't sure what form or forms it was going to take, but everybody knew (hoped) we were going to be connecting to other people using our computers. So a lot of people from that generation were right at home once the Internet became an everyday thing. And a lot of them weren't, obviously, but a lot of them were totally primed for it.

by jnbiche 11y ago

JohnBooty 11y ago

> What does that even mean? We lived through the Internet revolution. I was born after 1975 (barely - the Internet revolution happened when I was in high school and college) so I'm not just sticking up from myself here when I say that a lot of people born before 1975 really do "get it." Almost anybody who spent ten minutes using BBSs in the 1980s knew that some kind of connected thing was going to be the future. It was nearly inevitable. Maybe it would have been a bunch of closed CompuServes and Prodigies, maybe it would have been a BBS in everybody's home, maybe it would have been something global and semi-mostly-kinda open like the Internet. Whatever the form, that generation knew that connectedness was the next logical step. You can see it in sci-fi of the era (Neuromancer, etc) ...they weren't sure what form or forms it was going to take, but everybody knew (hoped) we were going to be connecting to other people using our computers. So a lot of people from that generation were right at home once the Internet became an everyday thing. And a lot of them weren't, obviously, but a lot of them were totally primed for it.