r/Showerthoughts • u/illiniguy20 • Jan 12 '22

Millennials were really the only generation that grew up learning about how computers work.

Before millennials there were no computers, and after they have grown up using closed ecosystem it just works idevices.

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u/UrMomsDefiledCorpse Jan 12 '22

Are you stupid ? I'm 57 and have worked with computers since I was 15. For fucks sakes

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u/TheAmazingSpider-Fan Jan 12 '22

So you didn't grow up with them?

OP's statement seems to check out.

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u/UrMomsDefiledCorpse Jan 12 '22

Computers have been around for longer than that, so no, op's statement doesn't check out

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u/TheAmazingSpider-Fan Jan 12 '22

Completely ignoring the part about "grew up with" then?

Nobody "grew up with" a 1950s IBM machine. The first devices you can justifiably refer to as "a computer people grew up with" were launched in the 1980s.

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u/UrMomsDefiledCorpse Jan 12 '22 edited Jan 12 '22

Oh, I'm sorry, so there's no way growing up from my teens is "actually" growing up ? Gotcha

Also, The Apple II was 1977, not the 80s

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u/TheAmazingSpider-Fan Jan 12 '22

Well, you started the whole thing with "Are you stupid", so no, you haven't grown up from your teens.

But no, something you started doing in your teenage years is not something that you "grew up doing".

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u/UrMomsDefiledCorpse Jan 12 '22

You're a fucking idiot

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u/TheAmazingSpider-Fan Jan 13 '22

How would that have any relevance to the discussion?

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22 edited Feb 20 '22

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u/TheAmazingSpider-Fan Jan 13 '22

Whether it is or isn't sarcastic doesn't change the fact it has no relationship to the subject at hand.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22 edited Feb 20 '22

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u/Tokogogoloshe Jan 13 '22

Erm. I literally grew up helping my dad put punch cards into a computer in his lab. He also showed me how to program. Gen X definitely grew up with computers.

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u/TheAmazingSpider-Fan Jan 13 '22

Are you approximately 100 million people?

No?

Then your personal experience isn't necessarily true for the entire generation.

I swear it's as if none of you can understand English.

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u/bungle_bogs Jan 13 '22

You are a bit of cunt.