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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 com
by 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 agoThe 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 agoThe 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.