My favorite I’ve heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
Only because everyone else does shit at voting. There’s only 75 million boomers left in the US, and millions of those are too bedridden or too mentally incapable to vote. There’s a lot more people in the 18 to 60 crowd than there in in the 60+ crowd.
Trying to play red alert or age of empires and having to fill in a box for baud rate, but I have no idea what baud rate fucking is. Now we need to make another phone call and start the whole process over again.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we’re exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I’m finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they’ve grown up on just do everything for them.
As someone working at a college–yup. A lot of students don’t know how to log out, or find save files. Where would they have learned it, though? You never log out of mobile devices.
I guess you don’t really explicitly save files in a lot of cases on mobile, huh. Hell, even when you do, they just magically save to some predetermined directory somewhere the vast majority of the time. “What’s a file system?”
My favorite I’ve heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
Considering Boomers still run the world, I wish that were true.
Only because everyone else does shit at voting. There’s only 75 million boomers left in the US, and millions of those are too bedridden or too mentally incapable to vote. There’s a lot more people in the 18 to 60 crowd than there in in the 60+ crowd.
Those of us who remember the tale of the land line telephone…
“Maaaaa, get off the phone, I’m trying to get online!”
Trying to play red alert or age of empires and having to fill in a box for baud rate, but I have no idea what baud rate fucking is. Now we need to make another phone call and start the whole process over again.
Ooh, remember the cordless landline phones? I’d always see how far from home I could walk before they’d cut out
Oh, I was never that curious.
My first telephone was a rotary. More than once I didn’t call pizza Hut because it had 3 0’s at the end.
Lmao. I remember a rotary but I was too young to be calling anyone.
I can still recite the home phone number I had from 10-20yo.
My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.
It feels like a good place to be.
At what age do you think one becomes irrelevant? Around the time your kids are out of the house?
I have no idea lmao. I think the last half is there for a self confidence boost, since it’s subjective.
Edit: Maybe once you give up on slang from new generations?
If this one wasn’t so shit at creating new slang, maybe it wouldn’t be so fuckin’ easy to give up on it?
ah, shit.
No cap, fr fr. 👀
If my life is accurate, irrelevancy begins at 36. Too old to be hip, too young to be financially well established.
Oregon Trail Generation
83 here. We’re a bridge generation.
We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we’re exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
We also had much jankier software. I’m finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they’ve grown up on just do everything for them.
As someone working at a college–yup. A lot of students don’t know how to log out, or find save files. Where would they have learned it, though? You never log out of mobile devices.
I guess you don’t really explicitly save files in a lot of cases on mobile, huh. Hell, even when you do, they just magically save to some predetermined directory somewhere the vast majority of the time. “What’s a file system?”