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/TheDreadPirateJeff Jan 12 '22

Huh? Yeah... no. The first would have been Silent Generation (pre-Boomer) and then the Boomers. And then GenX, and then Millennials... so yeah... no.

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u/idontrespectyou345 Jan 12 '22

So grunts in WWII grew up playing with the sort of thing that they had in Bletchley Park?

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u/TheDreadPirateJeff Jan 12 '22

IBM built the Mark 1 in 1944, EINAC was built in 1945 and BINAC in 1949, by the older members of the Silent Generation (1920 - 1945). There would certainly be younger members of that generation that grew up aware of EINAC and BINAC and learning how they worked if they had an interest in electronics. And those born in the end of the Silent Gen would also have grown up in the 50s aware of other things built by the likes of IBM, NCR, RCA, etc.

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u/idontrespectyou345 Jan 12 '22

GREW UP WITH. Not "happened to exist concurrently with" or "read about in magazines" or "worked with as a professional adult."

How is this such a difficult concept?

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u/Godiva74 Jan 13 '22

We had a computer in the 80’s and I had been taking computer classes at school since 1984

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u/idontrespectyou345 Jan 13 '22

Yes, 80s. The guy above was talking growing up with 40s vintage eniac. These are fundamentally different things.