legion02 comments on Zoomers & Boomers are the same

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But you don't know what I mean. Computers as most people know them now are tablets and cell phones. I blame X and the elder millennials for that.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn't how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.

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[–] legion02@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was Franklin laying the groundwork for computers as we know them when he discovered electricity? You have to cut things off somewhere for a statement like that.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

It could be said so, but it's a much, much more distant connection than working on things that are literally called "computers."

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[–] legion02@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

So then the Greek Antikythera mechanism counts too then? Or maybe the Bell transistor. My point is that none of these things resemble computers as we know them.

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