This made me giggle: ‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Feb 28 '23, 10:24
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I feel like I've gotten to the point in my life where I'm yelling at those damn kids to get off my digital lawn as while my social media presence is nearly zero, I can if absolutely forced to, use a command prompt, I think I could still assemble a computer from components though I chose to purchase the occasional laptop, and I can definitely follow the prompts on the industrial MFD behemoth and clear a paper jam.
All cause I'm exactly the age (and I was lucky enough) to have an Apple ][+ and had to hook up stuff and install cards and *laugh* was introduced to Hex as I was trying to break copy protection.
And then I built a PC or two or three and there was a time, that installing software was an actual skill / time consuming as productivity software shipped in a binder of 5.25 and 3.5 disks
Then there was IQ? (interrupt settings) just to get a modem to work and the BBS world and OMG there was ASCII porn as it took like hours to download a 320 x 200 image
and then Web 1.0 (0.0?) and that's where I met some of you and hung out at WBS and IRC and that took some configuring before slapping somebody around with a trout
I've also wondered about the literal keyboard skills of the current digital natives. I mean more power to you if you can type faster on glass than I can on a clicky keyboard. (Oh, and there was poor Blackberry...we've got physical keys, that whole glass thing will never stick)
But that's all cause I'm old 8-)
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