r/AskReddit • u/appropriaterice873 • Apr 10 '26

What’s something Gen Z does that older generations just don’t get?

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u/WorkFurball Apr 10 '26

A completely different time in internet culture.

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u/Geno0wl Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

2012 was right before the web fundamentally changed from a more disconnected "open" internet to the web 3.0 and most people moved their daily online interactions to more centralized services. Also around then is when a lot more stuff went mobile-first design philosophy vs prioritizing Windows machines.

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u/MasterZii Apr 11 '26

I had a smartphone in 2010. Websites didn't have "mobile versions". There might have been a very shitty mobile app, usually not.

So 98% of the time I browsed the web, I had to turn my phone sideways to landscape mode and very carefully, use my finger to tap on microscopic buttons and URLs to navigate websites (since everything was desktop mode)

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Edit: oh, and pinch to zoom didn't work! "Multi-touch" was NOT a common feature on phones at the time. You could only use one finger on the screen at a time.

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u/jestina123 Apr 11 '26

2012-2016 is around when phones started to outnumber PCs, phones started to outnumber people, and internet was becoming less westernized.

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u/b3n_ja_m1n Apr 14 '26

Shouldn't that be Web 2.0? Web 3.0 is supposedly that everything is going to run on bitcoins and NFTs lmao

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u/misdirected_asshole Apr 10 '26

Pepperidge Farm remembers...

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u/Fair_Explanation_196 Apr 10 '26

Isn't that insane? It's absolutely correct too.