Caught Between Gen X and the Millennials

[Kinser79]

(05-18-2016, 07:15 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(05-18-2016, 05:51 PM)Odin Wrote:

Quote:“In general, people born in 1980 and after don’t remember when they started using a computer,”

Are they including video game consoles? Because I never touched a PC until elementary school. Home PCs were not truly ubiquitous until around 2000 as far as I remember.

There are definitely socioeconomic and regional / microregional elements to this as well. For example upper middle to upper class Bay Area people were giving their kids PCs / Macs (or at least giving them access) starting in the 80s. But outside of these sorts of bubble worlds, you're right - many people were not on PCs / Macs until the 00s. Heck, there's a whole element out there whose introduction to all this has been supposedly-smart phones.

Quite true. The first computer I remember interacting with was when I was about 4 or 5 so that would be 1984-1985 range. It was a Texas Instruments computer and was little more than a glorified calculator. By 1988 though I was regularly using a desk top computer and programming in basic myself.

The end result is of course I'm the household IT guy. The kid or my mother have a problem with either of their computers they holler for me. I'm working to change that with the kid...my mother is a lost cause--she refuses to listen. Particularly to things like "maybe the reason you have this virus on your computer is the 90 different cursor thingies you downloaded.".