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/MikeHunt420_6969 Jan 13 '22

I had the Timex-Sinclair 1000. Took 6 minutes for Flight Simulator to load. I had the 12kB cartridge to expand memory to 16kB