Like the few kinda tech literate GenZers are gonna have to form some guild to keep the internet running at like early 90s levels.
“Brother Jeramathy! The Omni-Web has frozen, I did the ritual of resetting but it did not work!”
“Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul.”
“I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!”
Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y’all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.
It does really seem like they just decided to not teach anyone after Millennials anything about IT stuff, since “everything is computer” now and therefore the kids must just know about it magically, since they’re around computers all their lives.
other than typing i didn’t learn any of the computer shit i’m cursed with from school or parents.
having to double-click an exe to run a game exposed me to the other files in the folders and out of curiosity you click on shit and learn that an .ini file is just text and you can change numbers around if you want.
i run into grown adults that use a computer every day and don’t know what files or folders are
I find it very odd for adults (at least older ones) not knowing what files and folders are when there’s an analog equivalent
yeah there’s some things i can explain to my elderly mother that are harder to explain to 22 year olds because she’s used the things that are the basis for the skeuomorphism while people under 30 often don’t know what floppy discs were.
Thats pretty much it yeah. It doesnt work well because the only sorta tech literacy it teaches is how to do what the teacher says rather than any real understanding of what a web browser or a file is
I was in a grade 3 classroom last term and all the 8 year olds were expected to know how to open their chromebooks, log in, etc, so my impression is they probably start using them in grade two or grade one
A grim realisation I had is the reason my grandmother (and others older relatives) keeps falling for so many scam ads isnt that they are uniquely guilible; its that they havent been on the internet seeing and ignoring “you web browser is out of date” “urgent antivirus announcement” “new pills for curing cancer” popping up. The kids in modern classrooms are seeing these sorts of ads almost all day from the time they get to school.
THE MACHINE GOD HAS ABANDONED US!
Look at this 4yo, he knows how to use an ipad, grown to be a 18yo that doesn’t know how to alt+tab
Omg every grandparent amazed that an infant can use a touchscreen is one of the most annoying things