Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?

jcrabapple@dmv.pub to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 566 points –

My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.

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The porn tech pendulum:

Boomers: So your telling me that if I know the right people and go to the right theaters, I get to see porn? (Boomers become good at networking)

Gen X: So your telling me if I buy a TV I get to see porn? (Gen Xs don't get any cool knowledge, so they restrict porn on TV)

Millennials: So your telling me that if I get really good at computers and internet, I get to see porn? (Millennials get really good at using computer technology)

Zoomers: So your telling me if I own a phone, I get to see porn? (Zoomers don't get any cool knowledge, move to restrict porn on the internet)

Gen Alpha: So your telling me if I install these image AIs and VR programs, I get to see porn? (Gen Alpha gets really good and working with AI and VR 'interactions')

Um, Gen Xer here, and I spent a lot of time waiting for jpegs of Jenny McCarthy to load one line at a time, top down. If you don't know what I mean, you're either too young or too old

"You'd have been up all night and seen three naked women" - Rory, IT Crowd

Flat wrong about GenX, we are the Internet Lords. I was printing out porn jpgs and saving files to Zip disks in the 90s.

We were the tech support for boomers, and still are but now we have to teach the kids too.

Early Gen X was TV, late Gen X was definitely early internet.

Whoever you are: I'm going to screw up your and you're until the end of time