"Smart" phones make people into dumb proles

[Galen]

(06-30-2017, 06:54 AM)Odin Wrote: I've run into suggestions that Homelanders are going to be LESS computer-literate than us Millennials because they aren't really absorbing how computers actually work like we had to when we were growing up.

In many ways the Millies are less computer literate than Xers because of what we had to work with.  Like this:



and then there was this:



Typical memory would be 4K with a CPU running at 1 MHz for 6502 or 2 MHz for Z-80.  Trust me, if you wanted to do anything really interesting you learned assembly language because you needed the memory and speed that BASIC wouldn't give you.

Later vintage Xers often started with this:


Which had 64K of memory but clocked at 1MHz but had a floppy disk that could store a whopping 170K on a disk.  Millies tend to write memory hog code because they never had to deal with these kinds of limits.