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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I may be older but I know how to take a selfie without my phone in it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Who is expecting them to understand cryptography?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Ah yes the people who ran their video games on DOS are being left behind.

Help son, how do I open this app?!? With my finger???

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"before 1990" ffs. I was expecting "before 1960"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It hasn't been that hard in my experience. Ignore shifts in the social landscape until the yung'ins reach a consensus about it, and always remember that time just before the dotcom crash when a company got venture funding to deliver tuna subs by mail.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

8th grade teacher got pissed at us on 9/11 because he thought we were laughing at the fact that a plane had hit the WTC. We were laughing because one of the girls didn't know what the WTC was. We turned on the TVs to see the second one get hit.

6th grade we had napster while some of us were still bringing in cases of floppies to play games that'd run on the computers

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The elders had to rewind the movies after watching

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I still own a VCR and a vast collection of VHS tapes. I mean, I also pay for streaming services, but without the old 90s commercials for Disney World and previews for movies that were released in 1995, the movies just don’t hit the same.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

If only the pace of technology was the only paradigm shift to have to worry about since the 80s/90s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I feel both cuddled and attacked

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Goddamn I'm not that elder! But also true

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Im still not convinced that crypto is worth it. It seems like just about everyone either loses money in crypto or makes very little, chasing a dream laid out to them by some youtuber who is part of the very small group to make any nice amount from it. Just seems too volatile and sketchy

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

i remember standing in line for dvds. we were hacking regionlocked discs before nft was just a scammer's wet dream. we were moulded by early modern technology.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Most of the kids I know who have this attitude would also call IT if they accidentally opened the Command Prompt or BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

OK, this one kind of hurt a bit. I can't be the only one with a functioning VCR in the room with them right now...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This post makes my knees hurt

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