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I meet kids today who haven’t heard of Microsoft, who regularly play GTA and hand in assignments made in Powerpoint. 20 years ago I discovered that a friend did
by lazyasciiart 5mo ago
I meet kids today who haven’t heard of Microsoft, who regularly play GTA and hand in assignments made in Powerpoint. 20 years ago I discovered that a friend didn’t know Xbox and Word were both from Microsoft. It’s really hard to understand what is common knowledge in different parts of society.
- ForHackernews 5mo agoIndeed. You'd be shocked how few people on Hacker News even know the difference between cross stitch and blackwork.
- oblio 5mo agohttps://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
- 2muchcoffeeman 5mo agoThose are just products who cares? I think the GP is alluding to understanding the fundamental way a thing works.
- BobbyTables2 5mo agoKids today don’t even know where the files are stored or anything about partitions, drives, directory structure or even how much disk space is available. They have some files, synced to OneDrive and do everything else fully online (Canva, etc.) Most of them have never seen a computer with a drive other than C:
- idiotsecant 5mo agoKids today don't even know the most basic x86 assembly instructions! A whole class of third graders, and not one of them could tell me the difference between MOV and LEA!!!! Can you believe it?!?!
- dotancohen 5mo agoApt username.
- gschizas 5mo ago[dead]
- seanmcdirmid 5mo agoMy son has never seen a C: drive before. Heck, we got him a Macbook Neo a few weeks ago and I don’t think he has left more than a few coding apps since then. Thankfully he isn’t using AI yet.
- lazyasciiart 4mo agoKids in college 20 years ago didn’t know that either. Some of them didn’t understand that they had a school email address.