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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For real though, if anyone's old enough to remember using Netscape Navigator, they are definitely old enough to have had a grandchild by now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was about to get pissed off but then I remembered I'm 41, so yeah, if I had a kid at 20 and they had a kid at 20...

Guess I'll go sit back down in my rocking chair and take my nap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I guess, technically, if I had had a kid at 18-20 and my kid had done the same, maybe it would be possible. Then again, a younger step-sibling is already a grandmother.

We were still supporting navigator and/or communicator when I was working in my first IT job doing tech support for a dial-up provider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, if you worked in the government (including the military), old apps and programs could last a long time. I wasn't THAT old when I used Netscape in the Army. Plus, there's precocious kids who do stuff like use browser and command line stuff (and even code) before their age is in the double digits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Facts. I remember using Netscape and using MSDOS as a kid, and I'm in my early 30s, not quite old enough to have grandchildren lol