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An interesting thing I noted some years ago on several forums, when someone would post images or news articles about younger people using typewriters, the comme

An interesting thing I noted some years ago on several forums, when someone would post images or news articles about younger people using typewriters, the comments would very often turn extremely vitriolic and invoke violence, the 'these people should all be x' sort of thing where x ranged from gulags to getting kicked while on the ground. Such comments may have only been rhetorical in nature, but I've always found it interesting that such rhetoric is employed against people who merely have an affinity for older types of technology. Yet I've never heard anyone threaten to beat someone up for liking old cars. Maybe when/if electric cars predominate, the same will be said of those who restore 70s Ford Mustangs.

khazhoux 5y ago
> An interesting thing I noted some years ago on several forums, when someone would post images or news articles about younger people using typewriters, the comments would very often turn extremely vitriolic and invoke violence, the 'these people should all be x' sort of thing where x ranged from gulags to getting kicked while on the ground Sounds like you hang out in some really unhealthy user forums.
- dwringer 5y ago
  The grandparent comment immediately brought to mind [0], which evidently occurred right on the front page of reddit. Edit: This was discussed here on HN at the time [1] and again about six months ago [2]. [0]https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ridicule-ask-me-anything/ https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ri... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412708 [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457618
- apocalypstyx 5y ago
  The thing of it is, so far as I can remember because this was years ago, it was just rather normal forums and subreddits, news, what's going on today type of stuff, not particularly 'edgy' areas of the internet. It reminds me of a more extreme version of the anti-cursive sentimentality that sometimes comes up. I sometimes think there is a technological orthodoxy, of sorts. Older people are tolerated for their use of typewriters, fountain pens, or DOS-era WordPerfect/Wordstar, but if younger people start 'backsliding' or 'degenerating' then it's seen as a problem.
mo_lester 5y ago

khazhoux 5y ago

> An interesting thing I noted some years ago on several forums, when someone would post images or news articles about younger people using typewriters, the comments would very often turn extremely vitriolic and invoke violence, the 'these people should all be x' sort of thing where x ranged from gulags to getting kicked while on the ground Sounds like you hang out in some really unhealthy user forums.

dwringer 5y ago
The grandparent comment immediately brought to mind [0], which evidently occurred right on the front page of reddit. Edit: This was discussed here on HN at the time [1] and again about six months ago [2]. [0]https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ridicule-ask-me-anything/ https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ri... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412708 [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457618
apocalypstyx 5y ago
The thing of it is, so far as I can remember because this was years ago, it was just rather normal forums and subreddits, news, what's going on today type of stuff, not particularly 'edgy' areas of the internet. It reminds me of a more extreme version of the anti-cursive sentimentality that sometimes comes up. I sometimes think there is a technological orthodoxy, of sorts. Older people are tolerated for their use of typewriters, fountain pens, or DOS-era WordPerfect/Wordstar, but if younger people start 'backsliding' or 'degenerating' then it's seen as a problem.

mo_lester 5y ago