African Peasant
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Who cares? A lot of young people can't even write correctly.
You got too many posts on theColi anyway.
You got too many posts on theColi anyway.
How Much Longer before we stop giving Old People a pass for being Computer Illiterate?
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ScoopNScore
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What always shocks me more are the Millennials and even Gen Z that are computer illiterate.
The only thing they know how to use are their phones
The only thing they know how to use are their phones
Sbp
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Muhfukkas think smartphones are only for social media smhThis I gotta agree on, some of my students can't do basic shyt like attach a file to emails, like wtf u on them devices all day for
The vast majority of the computer purchases in the 90s were by upper-middle-class/upper class people.
Broke people weren't dropping thousands for a computer that couldn't do much
Poor neighborhoods didn't even have infrastructure for internet set in in most places
The Entitlement Generation
The internet was DoD tech - ARPA and DARPA are the ones who developed it.
Only places that had it widely available were the military and academic settings. My dad says the same thing - he was in the Marine Corps in the late-80s too
Field Marshall Bradley
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nikkas in here bragging about being computer literate(whatever that means) but can’t change a flat tire.... 
Was just about to mention Arpanet but thats above the heads of most of the posters here.
But that was for military personnel...that wasnt for the public and was not widely available...still it doesnt paint the true story. To act like it was is continued intellectual dishonesty.
I can do both.nikkas in here bragging about being computer literate(whatever that means) but can’t change a flat tire....
I had a tandy computer when I was little in ghe early 90s...then I realize for Black families that was rare as hell. My family had computers in the crib since the 80s.Computers werent even common in the 90s how the fukk they were common in 1980
Grew up using apple macintosh 90s joints...then switched to PC in 1995.
Ain’t that the truth.
This isn't accurate at all. I knew several people with computers in the 90s. Hell several people in my family had them and not one of them were even close to upper middle class. I was also in an low-income area that had internet. Money was not the determining factor for computers or internet. Anybody who's ever used USENET or newsgroups could tell you about how many basement dwellers dominated the internet back then.
The vast majority of the computer purchases in the 90s were by upper-middle-class/upper class people.
Broke people weren't dropping thousands for a computer that couldn't do much
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my father got his first computer in 98 and was designing his own websites an flipping them by 01... and I was tech support...
my mother also used to nag me to do everything for her on the computer but she learned.
My father was working 12 hour shift for the state of NY so unlike your dad he didn’t have time to buy a design computers.
My mom who has basic knowledge of computers only does because she went college and also worked for the department of education for many years.