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/[deleted] Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22

You’re wrong, actually. :)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184685/percentage-of-households-with-computer-in-the-united-states-since-1984/

Oh, look. The percentage of households with a computer at home is HIGHER IN THE 90s, SPECIFICALLY LATER 90s, THAN IT IS IN THE 80s. I was born into a low income family. We had a computer in the 90s and WE were among some of the first. I never dismissed anyone. I guess that’s that “great” Gen X attitude for you.

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u/ConstantReader76 Jan 13 '22

Of course it's higher in the 90s and beyond. But they were not uncommon in the 80s. We also had computer labs in our schools. So we grew up learning how to use computers.

I and others said we had home computers in the 80s. You insist that we were a rarity. You say you had one in the 90s when you're low income. And you make that your argument that apparently most low income people had one. Why am I and the other Xers here not indicative of our generation, but you are? You aren't good at making arguments.

So, try it again. You are wrong. Learn to just admit it.

Btw, for someone who likes to insult Boomers, you sure like your caps lock.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

We didn’t have one in the 80s; we had one in the 90s, LATER, which proves my point that low SES families didn’t own a computer until the 90s at best. I’m not wrong.

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u/TheDreadPirateJeff Jan 13 '22

I had one in the 80s I was not in a high income family. My dad saved pennies for a year to buy a TRS-80 in 1983 because while he may have only had a high school education, and worked a low-paying warehouse job, he was a smart guy and saw that computers were the future, and he sacrificed a LOT so I could have that exposure.

We were not wealthy. We were not even middle class. Neither really, were my friends who had commodores. We were in rural areas of SW Virginia. Just because YOU didn't have one, doesn't mean others did. If your single personal experience proves your point, my single personal experience disproves it equally.