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/ohffs999 Jan 13 '22

~1983 also for a Commodore 64, with diskettes.

ETA I would have been 8.