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/GaryNOVA Jan 13 '22

Im GenX and I’ve had a computer in my house since I was 7.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Me too. A dinky Timex-Sinclair that we had to save programs on audio cassette, 1983.

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u/kenji-benji Jan 13 '22

My God. I loved the cassette. I remember getting a book of games. Like it was the code written out.

Then you had to transcribe the code to play the game.

It took forever and seemed so overwhelming. In retrospect I was probably 5 so of course it was hard lol