The 'Net Generation' Isn't 435
Kanel introduces this lengthy review in Spiegel Online this way: "Kids that grew up with the Internet are not 'digital natives' as consultants have led us to believe. They're OK with the Net but they don't care much about Web 2.0 and find plenty of other things more important than the Internet. Consultants and authors, mostly old guys, have called for the education system to be reworked to suit this new generation, but they never conducted surveys to see if the members of 'generation @' were anything like what they had envisioned. Turns out, children who have known the Net their whole lives are not particularly skilled at it, nor do they live their lives online." "Young people have now reached this turning point. The Internet is no longer something they are willing to waste time thinking about. It seems that the excitement about cyberspace was a phenomenon peculiar to their predecessors, the technology-obsessed first generation of Web users. ...they certainly no longer understand it when older generations speak of 'going online.' ... Tom and his friends just describe themselves as being 'on' or 'off,' using the English terms. What they mean is: contactable or not."
Like George said (Score:2, Funny)
You can get on the plane, but I'm getting fucking IN the plane !!
Oh noooooo! (Score:3, Funny)
My smug sense of self-superiority! You've killed it!
Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh dear, I can feel a Yorkshire accent coming on. Back in my day, we didn't have CRTs, we had punch-card readers for input and barrel-printers for output. (I'm actually not lying - the machine was a Burroughs B3700 running MCP IV.)
We never had to have an 'andful of cold gravel for breakfast, because we could leave it sitting on top of the ALU for a few minutes, and it would be nice and toasty warm.
Re:OLD GUYS? (Score:1, Funny)
Now that you've finished mowing my lawn lawnboy5-0... Get off my lawn!
tl;dr (Score:5, Funny)
You certainly have the TL;DR part of philosophy nailed.
Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! (Score:5, Funny)
You mean like internet tubes?
Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! (Score:2, Funny)
Luxury!
We had to type in our games by hand, in hexadecimal, for two whole hours. And fix the bugs introduced by printing errors in the magazine. Then after playing for five minutes, we'd switch off, and next time we'd have to type in the whole thing again.
You try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
Scary thing is: I still have the Yorkshire accent.
Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh the memories (me too - same age bracket here)
Tweak the order in which things will load in your config.sys and autoexec.bat. Work like hell to squeeze that extra few k out of your memory. Special boot disks just to play one game. Practice your swear words trying to get the Gravis UltraSound to work properly as a Sound Blaster emulator. Goddamn it, I bought a new game that needs 45MB and my whole hard drive only has 80 - beg, borrow, steal space. Stacker is a godsend. No, it's not - doesn't work nearly as well as advertised. Goddamn it, I'm out of IRQ ports. Plug and play will never work, no way, no how. And we liked it that way.
Now get off my lawn
Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yes you did. The fine CRTs that Space War was designed for: Oscilloscopes. Now get off my lawn.
Re:evidence? (Score:1, Funny)
The people who don't care to learn anything about a computer are the ones who break them, yes, even Mac's.
The people who don't care to learn anything about the rules of grammar are the ones who break them.