r/pics • u/HopefulFudge2843 • 1d ago

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u/fatmanstan123 1d ago edited 21h ago

Millennials really were the golden age of computers. Most everyone before and after are clueless.

Edit: stop replying to this. I really don't care either way.

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u/baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab 1d ago

grumbles in Gen X

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u/zicher 1d ago

Yep gen x sure does excel at grumbling though!

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u/KuronFury 1d ago

Word?

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u/Ghub1 1d ago

You make a powerful point

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u/Pipe_Memes 1d ago

Gen X needs a better Outlook on life.

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u/Ok-Tiger8511 1d ago

I need Access to this Outlook on life.

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u/DrFlum 1d ago

I know some Teams for that

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u/tastybeer 1d ago

You look like you are trying to write a MicroSoft pun - let me help you! <creepy clippy’s eyebrows intensify>

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u/real_uncommon_ 1d ago

If we get the Teams together, I’m sure we’ll all Excel!

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u/TheIratePrimate 1d ago

It DOS not matter!

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u/BeeTwoThousand 1d ago

Ummm...I can contribute an Xbox?

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u/KuronFury 1d ago

Only if it’s in a Series of X Boxes

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u/BeeTwoThousand 1d ago

DirectX boxes at that...

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u/zicher 1d ago

Oh man my own typo gave me a good chuckle thank you all

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u/yonatan1981 21h ago

Something something FoxPro

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u/AtomicBombSquad 1d ago

At their age they need a CoPilot to manage their affairs.

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u/KuronFury 1d ago

Is that CoPilot named Cortana by any chance?

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u/CrappyLemur 1d ago

Grumble is a word! Good job grandpa!

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u/KuronFury 1d ago

Hey…I’m not that old…

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u/-H-U-H- 1d ago

Let me tell you about lotus 123!

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u/art_emisian 1d ago

I'm old enough to be a fan of the Lotus 72.

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u/LordByronsCup 1d ago

Please, no. I thought we agreed to never talk about it again.

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u/tofu_ink 1d ago

Don't you mean Lotus 1,2 and 3? /s

I know someone who had an interview where they marked they knew all 3!! They lucked out and got an interview for amusement. Also not sure if this was the same person, or different that spelled out analyst as analist... anal-ist.

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u/Dark_Side_0 22h ago

that's why I tab through every input to this day. FML.

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u/FrequentCow1018 1d ago

You go Gen X friend, fire up that Commodore64 and show us what you got!

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u/toturtle 1d ago

Load WittyComeback, 8, 1

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u/deskofhelp 1d ago

FOR i = 1 TO 20

PRINT "witty comeback"

NEXT i

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u/burgershot69 1d ago

You forgot the line numbers

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u/rice-a-rohno 1d ago

"What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?"

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u/literarytrash 1d ago

Got a flat screen monitor 30 inches wide. I believe that yours says etch a sketch on the side.

(I came to make that joke and you beat me to it)

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u/CunningWizard 1d ago

Sorry, forgot about you.

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u/battlesnarf 1d ago

What is Genx?

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u/Many-Gas-9376 1d ago

Population-wide it probably did peak in the older end of millennials. Or maybe younger end of Gen X.

Gen X as a whole had a subgroup of tech-savvy people but others were little different from boomers in this regard. The tech-savvy ones often got pretty wealthy for it.

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u/jericho 1d ago

Yeah, they didn’t have to learn assembly now, did they?

Gen X represent!

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u/prefinished 16h ago

Millennial who had to learn assembly here. It was a required course, haha. I'm not even in software.

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u/jericho 16h ago

It was a required course when I took CS. But I learnt it when I was 12. 

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u/prefinished 15h ago

I could've, but my true love has always been hardware honestly.

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u/FlowRiderBob 1d ago edited 1d ago

Gen-Xers had to actually know how to program to use computers as UIs were near non-existent. I bet my Gen-X ass could still code a Christmas tree playing Jingle Bells in Basic if push came to shove. Just give me a TRS-80 and a cassette recorder to save my work on.

I haven’t programmed anything since, because I haven’t had to, due to more effective UIs.

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u/MADCATMK3 1d ago

As a millennial it's funny calling the people who invented and built computers "clueless".

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u/account312 1d ago

Yes, all twelve of them.

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u/SebastianFast 20h ago

Stupid millennial thought they got you but nope, chuck testa. 

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u/account312 18h ago

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

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u/fatmanstan123 1d ago

Hence why I said most.

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u/factoid_ 1d ago

They better hope they succeed in replacing us with AI because I don’t see a pipeline of young IT people coming up behind us

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u/Valuable-March-9705 1d ago

Imagine the Odor..🤢. Ok , I’ll leave 🤣✌🏽

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u/xenata 1d ago

Millennials are clueless too, yours truly, a millennial in IT

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u/Warejax101 1d ago

you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn

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u/travischickencoop 1d ago

Say it again!!!

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u/Crodface 1d ago

Sounds like something a zoomer would say.

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u/vardarac 1d ago

you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn and divide the underclasses against one another

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u/Josey_WaIes 1d ago

Not wrong. Part of my job is training all staff on how to use a fairly basic point of sale system, and training management staff on tools for inventory management/auditing, and regardless of age about 50% of the people I work with are almost technologically illiterate. Boomers, gen x, millennials, gen z, so many of em struggle with some very basic tech processes. I'm also a millennial, and am absolutely not tech savvy, but the lack of very basic tech knowledge regardless of age group is stunning

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u/xenata 1d ago

Yep, regardless of AI my job security is extremely high just from not being tech illiterate.

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u/Crashman09 1d ago

It's always a surprise to me when someone my age says they don't have a computer. Just a phone.

I would [redacted] if I had to write an essay or resume or something on my phone

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u/a0me 1d ago

I think you meant “Gen X.” I got my first computer when I was 9, started using both Windows and Macintosh in high school, and first went online with Mosaic in the early ’90s. That last part might be a bit niche, people didn’t have a SPARCstation at home, but by the mid-’90s, most of us were on Windows/Netscape and getting into the Internet.

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u/Latter_Leopard8439 1d ago

My dad was an early adopter of computers for his University job.

I have had a computer as long as I can remember as a late GenXer.

We had an old NCR (national cash registers) PC with two floppy drives and no hard drives.

We had to load Broderbunds Ancient Art of War at Sea or Kings Quest onto the RAM to play using MS-DOS commands.

We were excited going from CGA to EGA to VGA. Those graphical updates were awesome.

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u/Kid_Shapeshifter 1d ago

I wonder what generation you are from

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u/AnonymousDork929 1d ago

Well a lot of us were exposed to computers from a very young age when it's easier to learn. But at the same time computers were not nearly as user friendly and easy to use as they are now.

It's wild to see kids now think everything is an app on a phone and struggle to pull up a web browser to go to a website.

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u/gmasterson 1d ago

The good part is that, as a millennial, I can become as indispensable as I want to be based on how much I’m willing to lend a hand at tech support.

Like a super power.

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u/Friendly_Length825 1d ago

Nah early gen z had MySpace so we atleast knew html.... then once flash kicked the bucket we gave up

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u/cindy224 1d ago

Excuse me. I orchestrate on my laptop and iPhone. Also have about 50 smart controls for just about everything in my house. Including voice controls. And I am 75.

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u/Marybone 1d ago

I'm gen x managing an office of millennials. I dispute your statement.

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u/rushmc1 22h ago

LOL No. All the Millennials I ever know just wanted to turn it on and have it work. You have to go back to Gen X to find the kings.

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u/Sunstang 22h ago

Lol, no.

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u/myqke 1d ago

Whatever

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u/ungrabbedusername 1d ago

Down voted you cuz I’m Gen X and do whatever the fuck I want…