How Much Longer before we stop giving Old People a pass for being Computer Illiterate?

[Luke Cage]

Until they die.





People who were rich and designing the web were doing that. Email started being a standard communication tool around 2000. Internet wasn't a standard thing in American homes until after that.

you realize i was born before 2000 and was not a rich person or a webdesigner but used Computers and internet all throughout the 90s? I know for fact you're wrong.
I used to play this game all the time on pc. was that a rich persons only game or a hobby for webdesigners? all i know is that in 1991 it was piff.

 

[Geode]

I'll get on my rant on how if its not the latest app to communicate to your friends (ie modern age telephone), there's a lot of people, young and old, who are computer illiterate.

But I do have concerns about everything being automated. I have to take care of a lot of my mom's bills and such, because talking to a human is non-existent. And even I get tripped up trying to set and remember passwords, that each need to be changed every 12 minutes . I have to do this when I'm 65?

 

[concise]

you realize i was born before 2000 and was not a rich person or a webdesigner but used internet all throughout the 90s? I know for fact you're wrong.
I used to play this game all the time on pc. was that a rich persons only game or a hobby for webdesigners? all i know is that in 1991 it was piff.

Only rich people had PCs in the 90s.

and you were using that to play games, something adults were far less likely to do in that time.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I don't give them passes. I charge them to do the job for them.......

OG: Hey, I got this problem. My computer is stuck and there's this warning message telling me to call this number to fix it. I can't close this window. What do I do?

Me: Bring it to me. I'll fix that for $50. Don't worry.

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[Chris Cool]

40 years is a stretch.

 

[King Jove]

My family members be acting like I'm Stanley from Swordfish when I help close the 30 tabs they opened after asking me to fix the computer.

 

[Brehcepticon]

Put them out to pasture

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Only rich people had PCs in the 90s.

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Breh, I built my first PC in 1993 for like $200 using spare parts and stuff offices threw away.​

 

[Luke Cage]

I'll get on my rant on how if its not the latest app to communicate to your friends (ie modern age telephone), there's a lot of people, young and old, who are computer illiterate.

But I do have concerns about everything being automated. I have to take care of a lot of my mom's bills and such, because talking to a human is non-existent. And even I get tripped up trying to set and remember passwords, that each need to be changed every 12 minutes . I have to do this when I'm 65?

Breh i've personally witnessed relatives who spent their whole lives on typewriters like this.

Put a keyboard in front of them and ask them type a paragraph and suddenly they're like

i understand not knowing shortcuts but how your wpm drop that much?

it's literally same layout for the letters.

 

[Luke Cage]

Only rich people had PCs in the 90s.

and you were using that to play games, something adults were far less likely to do in that time.

Breh how old are you?

 

[concise]

Breh how old are you?

Old enough to know that I was never getting a PC in the 90s.

Breh, I built my first PC in 1993 for like $200 using spare parts and stuff offices threw away.

You had to dig through garbage and it still cost $200?

 

[Legal]

When are gonna stop giving them passes?

I BEEN stopped.

If that shyt can be put on a job listing as a required skill, then we can expect it of our coworkers.

My problem isn't people who aren't good with modern technology, as much as it is the ones that don't even try.

I can work with those old timers that just ask for a little help and patience as they try to work through it, since they didn't grow up with this stuff.

The ones who almost wear it as a badge of honor? The "Oh, I don't do any of that techie stuff " ? Nah. fukk that. Eat a dikk and read a book or something. Not knowing is one thing, not trying is inexcusable.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

10 years from now a zoomer will say that about old heads not being able to use social media/AR

 

[Luke Cage]

Old enough to know that I was never getting a PC in the 90s.



You had to dig through garbage and it still cost $200?

So you are honestly telling me only rich people are famiiar with windows 95? everybody else didn't get on until vista?

 

[God Almighty]

Funny thing is, Gen Z is functionally computer illiterate too because they grew up with smartphones that almost never malfunction, so if something goes even slightly wrong on a computer, they don't know how to troubleshoot. Gen X and millennials are in a little bubble of knowledge.