I’m one of those #Boomers who has been in tech for over 40 years. My kids always assumed that my generation wasn’t supposed to understand tech, and one of them complained that it wasn’t fair that their dad and I knew more than they did.
I said, “Honey, who do you think BUILT the Internet?”
@wendynather Yup! (Though it was nice when my son complained that his friends were choosing bad passwords for their accounts…)
@wendynather Oh Goddess, I relate to this! People have been paying me to write code for a zillion different machines, architectures, and in as many languages since 1978; nearly half a damn century! Was visiting dial-up BBSs from about 1990. First BBS I found that was bridging Usenet newsgroups popped up about 1992, I think.
@wendynather “I’m old enough to remember when IP addresses were still in school”
“Don’t be silly, IP addresses were never in school”
“They were in classes”
@wendynather We came down from the trees, developed the Internet, and then realized that we should have stayed up in the trees. I’ll just drink this Fediverse™️ Universal Beverage (now with more TCP, and less Hops) and dream of bird song and hibernation.
@wendynather my dad is older than the boomers and he's the one who recommended Mint Linux to me as a good daily driver Linux distribution.
@wendynather are your kids familiar with the story of Mel? I think the tech gene goes back a generation or two in your family: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_…
@eludom I came in on DEC20s around 1980, on the Internet by 84 or so, started work at CompuServe when they were trailblazing much the “online” world we take for granted today (email, shopping, forums, chat, search, GIFs …)
@wendynather Went off on some sprout whinging about "boomers" not knowing how to right click. I've been right clicking since before you were born. Obnoxious POS.
@wendynather the ironic part is they deeply misunderstand tech and think using apps on iphone is real tech knowledge. No idea how anything works under the hood. It'd be endearing if they weren't little shits about it
We had the CYBER system at Cal State Hayward (now Cal State East Bay) back in 1974, which connected all the Cal State universities. I thought it was so cool, I invited my kid sisters up to school to use it.
As soon as they signed in with female names they were SWARMED.
@paul_ipv6 @wendynather Yes. Also RFC NNNN: “Communication over Common Mycorrhizal Networks using Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection media access control”
