Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.
I’m GenX but this is me. I hate modern computing and the cloud in particular. SharePoint is a close second. I think the last excellent word processor was WordPerfect 5.1. Everything since then is worse than the version before it.
God damnit.
I remember toting around a Linux textbook in 7th grade, because I had just started messing with it.
Same year I got my General and Advanced ham radio licenses.
Does this make me autistic?
7th grade in the US is about 12 years old.
I’m not a doctor, so I won’t guess, but…what’s your favorite train?
I started in 1981 at 11yo with a ZX81 writing games in BASIC. In 1984 at 14yo I was cracking games on Amstrad CPC6128, Z80 assembly. At 18 in 1988 it was on PC in DOS (8086). Yes I installed Linux 0.99 on my 486 PC in 1992 or something.
Never touched an Apple device.
I wrote a program in Basic on my Commodore 64 at 6.
I didn’t know how to save my work. I typed and manually proofread code for three hours. It worked. The program was lost when I powered it down.
I wrote basic on my Apple IIe.
I was all Apple/Mac until 1998 when I built a Windows gaming pc with high school graduation money. Learned to code in art school, after which I switched back to Macs when they went intel, built annoying but fun flash ads and games in AS2 (ECMAscript essentially), then when the iPhone came out I switched to hand coding HTML/CSS/JS web apps and got out of advertising.
Then learned Ruby/Sinatra/Rails/Haml/SASS and did straight web dev into the early days of both React, Angular and Vue. Then quit to do a tech startup with robots.
Now I CAD model original designs for fabrication projects, 3D printing and custom automotive designs.
So I’m pretty technically inclined, but I own 4 Macs, 3 Rpis, dozens of physical computing platforms, and a metric ton of salvaged sensors and ex-RadioShack components.
I think it was pretty common back then to have no way to save. Spectrum zx. Amstrad 464. They didn’t initially have a media to save to. Then cassette tapes could be used. Software piracy was recording the tape, like copying a song.
My brother in arms….
Our Commodore VIC20 came with a big book/manual which mostly taught you how to code. Was an awesome time.
Yeah the “OS” was essentially a basic interpreter and simple editor. I remember that book.
Heh, I was going to comment on my first being a C64 (technically a Vic 20 is the first I ever messed with, but I don’t really remember that one).
It’s like looking at a mirror. Only it was a Sharp HotBit (a Brazilian computer) and I was 7 or 8.
Discluded? I have another hypothesis.
I have a third hypothesis to add to the mix…
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (sorry, paywalled).
Those who use the verb discluded should probably be discluded.
Even autocorrect discludes this as a valid word.
It’s perfectly cromulent
Engagement bait?
I can provide an anecdotal evidence of someone who started in MSX-DOS, then PC MS-DOS, went to Windows, then Unix, back to Windows, then Linux, and now is on Mac.
You went from Linux to Mac?
What if we started on an Oric-1?
Great! Oric-1 was not super popular, I don’t know a lot of people who had one, Atmos a little bit more, but it was when C64 and Amstrad CPC were king, then ST and Amiga.
I have ADHD. Always have. Diagnosed ADD/ODD as a kid. Grew up with a old 386 running DOS. Mom eventually updated to a PC running Windows 95, then 98, then Windows ME. When I was a young teen I built my first PC because I was playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live and joined a clan that ran a few Halo PC servers. Learned a lot about stuff then, developed a love for it. Was perpetually broke and pirated a bunch of games, eventually buying most of them.
I recently installed SteamOS on my Legion Go after finding an adapter and new backplate to fit a proper full-sized SSD in it. Also nabbed a couple of extra USB powered fans to keep the WiFi card cool, stuck to the back of the thing with double-sided tape. It’s a jury-rigged mess and I love it. I also happen to be a circuit board tech. Not an electrical engineer or anything, but I assemble, test, and rework PCBAs. Had a short stint in helpdesk IT, hated it. I’m much more of a hardware guy. Never did learn to code much past a bit of HTML for my MySpace page back in the day.
I started on a Power Macintosh, does that count?
I wrote a program in BASIC on my Apple ][, but unlike the Commodore in this thread I knew how to save it. I eventually ended up with a pretty cool maze game. It had several mazes you had to maneuver through, but the mazes would randomly change
lol. Linux didn’t even exist when I was 12 I think or it was very very young
‘Excluded’ surely?
Discluded is an uncommonly used word, but it is a word. Could indicate the OP in image is from a UK-English country and an academic - they like the top shelf rare words.
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (Oxford English Dictionary. Sorry, they have a dumb paywall now. I used a search engine cached-copy from the definition page).
I concluded the same.
She may have miscluded.
I had some add a kid. When I moved out it became a bit to expensive (and osx happened, which maar all my knowledge of the os moot) so I switched to windows.
Last year I moved to Linux and will never look back
