You might be surprised and/or horrified by the number of "hackers" who know nothing of things like Usenet, IRC, mutt, etc. I think it really hit me when someone

You might be surprised and/or horrified by the number of "hackers" who know nothing of things like Usenet, IRC, mutt, etc. I think it really hit me when someone posed the serious question, "What's IRC?" He was older than me. Don't get me started on "the cloud", either. Back in my day, we had to walk up hill, both ways, in the snow, to setup a mail server. And even then it didn't work.