There's no golden age when people used to know how to use computers. It's always been a small percentage that had any idea how things actually worked. You used

There's no golden age when people used to know how to use computers. It's always been a small percentage that had any idea how things actually worked. You used to have to have that type of obsessive, systemizing kind of mind to work things at all, so most people just didn't. For every one of us futzing around with autoexec.bat, there were a dozen or more who didn't care to frig with systems where troubleshooting was more complicated than turning it on and off and blowing dust out of the cartridge. Most people are not curious nor do they care to know things at that level of detail.