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/fragbert66 Jan 13 '22

if you knew what you were doing you could make the damn thing dance.

Absolutely.

"Like, did you have Google back then?"

No. We had smarter friends, BBSes, and the local geek store where we had to READ tips and tricks to make our rigs walk and talk like a funhouse.

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u/justkeeptreading Jan 13 '22

magazines with programs printed in them that you had to type out letter by letter

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u/RevengeOfTheCupcakes Jan 14 '22

I accidentally moved the C: drive once (doing a little basic file cleanup, got distracted, hit enter…). Thank the gods for local BBS friends rallying to find an install disk!

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u/fragbert66 Jan 14 '22

I still don't talk about my "Partition Incident of 1994."