• ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I think there was a golden 20 year era for learning basic computing. If you were a kid somewhere between 1985 and 2005 you had to figure out some slightly more technical things to use a computer. I’m late Gen X and so was exposed early on to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, but kids working with Windows 3, 95 and 98 would have developed similar skills.

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        9 months ago

        Genuinely curious: what made you think that? The iMac itself doesn’t really strike me as a “simplified” computer, but I might be missing something.

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          9 months ago

          Meh, lots of Dino gaming, not a lot of computer tinkering as I recollect.