• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Really depends early GenZ was born in the late 90s/early 00s, and I can Attest that there’s quite a few who’re pretty good with computers. Mostly depends on what you got in touch with at home.

      Now, Gen Alpha, I’d say, is on average proper fucked regarding computer knowledge.

      Or, more to the point, the generational blocks don’t really matter much for this, but there’s certainly a declining aclemation with basic OS concepts.

        • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
          5·
          14 hours ago

          Well, at a low level they are still basically the same. x86 still starts in 16-bit real mode. Mice still use USB 1 from the 90s.

          Mostly it’s just a lot faster and covered with more layers of abstraction.

          • legion02@lemmy.world
            4·
            12 hours ago

            But you don’t know what I mean. Computers as most people know them now are tablets and cell phones. I blame X and the elder millennials for that.

            • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              12 hours ago

              Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn’t how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.

              • legion02@lemmy.world
                1·
                12 hours ago

                Was Franklin laying the groundwork for computers as we know them when he discovered electricity? You have to cut things off somewhere for a statement like that.

                • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  11 hours ago

                  It could be said so, but it’s a much, much more distant connection than working on things that are literally called “computers.”

                  • legion02@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    11 hours ago

                    So then the Greek Antikythera mechanism counts too then? Or maybe the Bell transistor. My point is that none of these things resemble computers as we know them.

      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        13 hours ago

        That’s like saying that nerdy millenials invented mRNA vaccines. A very small percentage of the population worked on them while the rest weren’t even aware they existed for most of that time.

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          Regardless of how few, it was still people from that gen and computers wouldn’t exist today if they hadn’t laid the groundwork.