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

[☃ ೋ]

Let them stay that way, so i can keep charging them $70 to "clean" (reformat)their computer

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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

No. I didn't HAVE to, but why pay for a case/motherboard/keyboard/monitor when they're sitting on the curb? All I had to buy was a processor, RAM, and mouse.

Had I bought everything, it would have cost about $500-$600. Luckily, they left the hard drive, all 300 mb of it, in the case with a full version of Windows 3.1.​

 

[ultraflexed]

How about

How much time should we give to start calling niccaz out on stupid: life choices, choices in women, being over 23 an still living at home..


When do we start that...

 

[NatiboyB]

Don't worry as you get older something will pop up that will leave you looking old and slow...

I can raise you one right now...I find facebook to be easier to read and work than twitter don't understand the point of all of the random ass hashtags...I have never in my life made a bunch of hashtags in a message/post.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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.

If you walk into Staples, Best Buy, or Target and listen to some of them looking for a charging cable for their iPhone, you'd swear they were retarded.

Millenial: I need a charging cable for my phone.

Salesman: Which phone do you have?

Millenial: An iPhone.

Salesman: Which version?

Millenial:
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[richaveli83]

It's pretty easy to shame older folks for being computer illiterate when us late generation x's, millennials, etc grew up on computers in the classrooms and in everyday life. A good chunk of Americans didn't have a computer in their homes until the late 90s/early 2000s and the internet didn't really become a thing for the masses of Americans until around that same time.

 

[Commish]

I don't expect old folks to be computer savvy, I just hope they are not writing checks at grocery stores. shyt is super annoying!

 

[concise]

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

U.S. households with PC/computer at home 2016 | Statista

Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s : The Economics Daily : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

1990 to 1997 home ownership jumped from 15 to 35 percent.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

My dad is 78 and can’t use a computer. He came to this country in 80 and only had jobs that involved using his hands and he worked a lot of hours per day. And when he needed something done he either did it by foot or me and my sis did it for him.

 

[verbalkint]

I'm more concerned about touch screens. They still anticipating a button press feeling....

 

[Jekyll]

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.

nikka hell nah. I was in the projects when my mom got her first one.

 

[concise]

nikka hell nah. I was in the projects when my mom got her first one.

They have people in the projects with Gucci, Birkins, and Benzes right now as well.

Doesn't change the overall average trend.
1990 - 15%
1997 - 38%
in the richest country in the world alone. Imagine what those numbers were looking like in the rest of the world.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

My parents won’t even ATTEMPT to do anything with electronics.

I get called for everything. I dread when they buy something, because I know I’m going to have to set it up.

My mom still calls the bank to hear her balance, because she doesn’t want to deal with an app.

She only got a smartphone because her flip phone snapped.

 

[Luke Cage]

They have people in the projects with Gucci, Birkins, and Benzes right now as well.

Doesn't change the overall average trend.
1990 - 15%
1997 - 38%
in the richest country in the world alone. Imagine what those numbers were looking like in the rest of the world.

And i gave them a pass back in 97. but now it's over 20 years later. Thats a long ass time to not learn something new. Nowadays its more of a hassle to stay retro if anything. You can't just keep using rotary phones and shyt that easily. where you gonna go get a new one when it breaks?

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Ironic
Considering op been on the internet all this time and still can't make a good thread on a msg board

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