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I don't know if you're thinking about all the millennials or just a few. PCs weren't as common in the early 90s.

cogman10 2y ago
I know there's computer illiterate millennials. If you could turn it into a literacy ranking or percentage my argument is that more millennials (by a large margin) are computer literate than any other generation.
- hot_gril 2y ago
  I think that's gen Z. For the younger half, you might have to decide whether or not a Chromebook qualifies as a PC, but idk if it even matters because Mac/Windows PCs are still necessary for work or used for games.
  - nicksergeant 2y ago
    I could be mistaken but I think parent is referring to computer literacy as the interest in tinkering with and/or programming computers, not just using them to write school papers. I too am quite fearful of the fact that I know zero kids under the age of 15 who have any interest in learning how computers work, despite being completely surrounded by them since age 8 or 9 (via school-issued Chromebooks).
    - hot_gril 2y ago
      I'm 28, and when I was 15, I didn't know anyone tinkering with computers either. Besides myself, and the other kids at school didn't take kindly to that. Now I do know a lot of kids under 15 doing computer tinkering, usually gaming PCs. If anything, I'm worried that they do it too much.
JeremyHerrman 2y ago
Sure, computers grew in popularity throughout the 90s but I wouldn't call them uncommon in the early 90s - they were all over the place especially in schools. My kindergarten classroom had an Apple II in 1989. Our first grade classroom had old IBM PCs. My parents bought our first computer in '94 and we were one of the later families to have one (these were actual middle class families).
pjmlp 2y ago
PC as such no much. Spectrums, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, PC, Acorn, as home computers ecosystem surely. At least in Europe we weren't that much into consoles, having a home system was one from the list above.
bluedino 2y ago
They weren't? My view is certainly skewed since we had a 386SX, but there were tens of thousands of BBS's running back then. Online services exploded in the early 90's, shareware games like Doom and Wolfenstein sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In 1992, Gateway 2000 surpassed Dell by selling over a billion dollars in PC's.

I know there's computer illiterate millennials. If you could turn it into a literacy ranking or percentage my argument is that more millennials (by a large margin) are computer literate than any other generation.

hot_gril 2y ago
I think that's gen Z. For the younger half, you might have to decide whether or not a Chromebook qualifies as a PC, but idk if it even matters because Mac/Windows PCs are still necessary for work or used for games.
- nicksergeant 2y ago
  I could be mistaken but I think parent is referring to computer literacy as the interest in tinkering with and/or programming computers, not just using them to write school papers. I too am quite fearful of the fact that I know zero kids under the age of 15 who have any interest in learning how computers work, despite being completely surrounded by them since age 8 or 9 (via school-issued Chromebooks).
  - hot_gril 2y ago
    I'm 28, and when I was 15, I didn't know anyone tinkering with computers either. Besides myself, and the other kids at school didn't take kindly to that. Now I do know a lot of kids under 15 doing computer tinkering, usually gaming PCs. If anything, I'm worried that they do it too much.

JeremyHerrman 2y ago

Sure, computers grew in popularity throughout the 90s but I wouldn't call them uncommon in the early 90s - they were all over the place especially in schools. My kindergarten classroom had an Apple II in 1989. Our first grade classroom had old IBM PCs. My parents bought our first computer in '94 and we were one of the later families to have one (these were actual middle class families).

pjmlp 2y ago

PC as such no much. Spectrums, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, PC, Acorn, as home computers ecosystem surely. At least in Europe we weren't that much into consoles, having a home system was one from the list above.

bluedino 2y ago

They weren't? My view is certainly skewed since we had a 386SX, but there were tens of thousands of BBS's running back then. Online services exploded in the early 90's, shareware games like Doom and Wolfenstein sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In 1992, Gateway 2000 surpassed Dell by selling over a billion dollars in PC's.