▲ 403 ▼ Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 113 comments fedilink hide all child comments Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
[+] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Xennial here: Come back and talk to me after spending a good chunk of your childhood editing config.sys and autoexec.bat, loading drivers and freeing up conventional memory. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm not old enough for most early computers but I do remember changing an IRQ channel once. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago My parents got me a subscription to Family Computing. Spent way too many hours typing in the lines of BASIC code contained in each one, debugging my mistakes, and playing them. There's a joke in there somewhere... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Xennial here: Come back and talk to me after spending a good chunk of your childhood editing config.sys and autoexec.bat, loading drivers and freeing up conventional memory. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm not old enough for most early computers but I do remember changing an IRQ channel once. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago My parents got me a subscription to Family Computing. Spent way too many hours typing in the lines of BASIC code contained in each one, debugging my mistakes, and playing them. There's a joke in there somewhere... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm not old enough for most early computers but I do remember changing an IRQ channel once. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago My parents got me a subscription to Family Computing. Spent way too many hours typing in the lines of BASIC code contained in each one, debugging my mistakes, and playing them. There's a joke in there somewhere... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago My parents got me a subscription to Family Computing. Spent way too many hours typing in the lines of BASIC code contained in each one, debugging my mistakes, and playing them. There's a joke in there somewhere... permalink fedilink source parent