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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (7 children)

To put a finer point on it, it specifically the younger Gen Xers and older Millennials. That’s the “one” generation this post describes.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm on the older end of Gen Xers and at least the nerdier half of us not only know how to use computers, but we've seen the whole evolution of home computing since the Altair. We know in a way you never can why goto is considered harmful.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    And on the other end of that, my niece and nephew are just on the cusp between millennial and gen z and they grew up playing games on Windows 95, 98, and XP. I think both Gen X and Millennials in their entirety fit the bill.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It's not just younger Gen X. I'm oldish Gen X and loads of us were programming computers for fun from the late 1970s on. By the early 1990s you couldn't really avoid computers, and you couldn't use them without at least a basic level of understanding. By that time many of us had been using them for a decade or more. It's those who grew up without computers (before they became common) and those who grew up with iPhones that have a problem with tech.

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