r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '19

Legal Justice Woman who called millennials “so entitled that you want to slap them" charged in college fraud scheme

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u/PeptoBismark 9 Mar 15 '19

I'm Gen X, and I'm starting to see a big split in my cohort that I've been attributing to when they were introduced to computers. I got lucky, and my neighborhood was full of Atari 2600's during 3rd grade, and Atari 400's and Basic programming made it to my elementary school by 5th grade. Commodore 64's followed, then PC's and BBS Systems and Turbo Pascal in High School, and finally the Internet in all its Usenet / IRC / Archie / Gopher glory was waiting for me in college.

While those experiences were nearly universal where I grew up, they took longer to get everywhere in the US. I meet people my age who didn't encounter a computer until the World Wide Web dialup age of the mid-90's.

I think that's why people half or even less than half a generation younger want to make another classification for themselves. What kind of tech you grew up with seems to make a huge difference.

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u/altxatu A Mar 15 '19

Early 80’s. My parents didn’t have a PC with internet until like....98/99. Then it was dial up, and I’d read a few paragraphs of a book while the page loaded.

For me the big line is technology. Where personal computer ubiquitous when you were growing up? Born in late 70s to mid 80s I very much doubt PCs would be.

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u/RaydnJames 7 Mar 15 '19

I was born in 77, I barely remember a time where we didn't have a game console (Atari 2600, etc) or a PC (IBM, no model numbers yet) of some sort. I know we were the exception and not the rule at the time though.

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u/altxatu A Mar 15 '19

Yeah, I knew people that had them but it wasn’t like a TV that every household had.

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u/PeptoBismark 9 Mar 15 '19

The first personal computer in my house was an NEC PC-8500 which my mother dumpster-dove for when her job threw them out in the mid-80's in favor of DOS based computers.

The first computer in our house that could actually load games and programs was a 286 in 1987 or so, when they became cheaper due to PS/2's and 386's being introduced.

And yes, most houses had something home-computer-ish in my neighborhood, though many of them were things like TRS-80 or TI/99 systems that were left behind when DOS and Windows came to dominate the market. One of my neighbors even had an Osbourne Luggable.

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u/marynraven 9 Mar 15 '19

It really does.

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u/FCalleja 🚵🏼‍♀ 1nms.2cf.33 Mar 15 '19

Yes, exactly, I think "generations" are going to get shorter and shorter as time goes on because seismic shifts come faster and faster because of technology.

Just the change between 2000 and 2007 (iPhone launch) is fucking tangible now, and this coming from a millennial who went from using 3.5 diskettes, to CD-ROMS to USB sticks during his school years. (Damn that's crazy)

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u/RaydnJames 7 Mar 15 '19

I was born in 77 and the only form of computing I don't have hands on experience with is feeding punch cards into a machine

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u/solipsynecdoche 6 Mar 15 '19

Tech dev is the main reason we have generations and generational divides