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I feel like people on here overestimate the tech literacy their peers learned when they were kids. While the computer-interested group around me did some experi
by ketzu 7y ago
I feel like people on here overestimate the tech literacy their peers learned when they were kids. While the computer-interested group around me did some experimentation, a little bit of programming and the like, most people I knew didn't do any of that.
Most things just worked: Put the floppy inside, click on the correct icon [1], maybe type in one thing or click on the file with the correct ending/name that sounded like the game, and your game was running. I did not know what I was doing, just remembering what I was shown.
Later as a teenager, I was asked to help out by other teens much more than my mother asked me to help.
[1]: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hEMIuqfC17M/VRbHvgeiw_I/AAAAAAAAAVU/v5ZrrLPAE-8/w640-h480-no/pareja.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hEMIuqfC17M/VRbHvgeiw_I/A...
- cm2187 7y agoIn the 90s, people had the excuse of not having the internet. As a kid in the 90s, I sort of knew I wanted to do more advanced stuff with my computer. I saw some ads in a computer magazine about a software to write software. So I bugged my mum into buying me Code Warrior for MacOS. I found myself in front of a white text editor, no indication of what to do next, no one around me who knew anything about programming, I had not even heard of C++. As I result I didn’t get into programming before university. Kids today have way less excuses. Between easier languages and libraries, better tools, way more resources available at their fingertips, much higher concentration of people knowledgeable around them, way more fun things they can do with computers, and a generally accepted idea that being good with computers is a good thing career wise (in the 90s it was often seen by parents as merely a sophisticated game console).