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[phlyerxx]

Don't dismiss the "old generation" quite so fast.
The "old generation" developed the internet and the personal computer so you can chat with hundreds of your "friends" on Facebook and play with a train simulator that is in no way "high tech" and can be mastered by anyone with half a brain.
The "old generation" developed the cell phone so now everyone can take "selfies" to show all their "friends".
The younger generation is simply using the technologies that the older generation (including my parent's generation) developed. My generation used and is still using those older technologies.
My parents generation developed aerial flight, leading to manned space flight, fly-bys of the planets and a space station. Shades of Buck Rogers!
If I read it correctly, evidence supports an increasing number of the younger generation is moving away from science and technology and due to a lack of critical thinking skills, belive the earth is flat, we never went to the moon and the government is trying to kill us wth "chemtrails". I guess the world is more exciting when you belive in conspiricy theories!
Consider yourself lucky if you ever make it to the older generation. Then you can listen to the younger generation rant about how inept you oldsters are tech-wise!
What goes around, comes around.

Papa Hotel India Lima

[jdgremsjr]

I'm old, late 50s yet, have had a computer since 1980. I program in many languages, do networking, repair computers, all for a living. I also enjoyed HAM radio and TV and Radio Production when I was younger.

Remember us old people are the true survivors, my mother in law is in her 90s and my father in late is in his 80s. They both are into tech. It is old people that survived the wars, COVID, the racism of the 60's and 70's and have still not only survived, we've thrived.

So before jumping to conclusions maybe do a little more research, and remember when you are our age and tech is much different than it is today, and you might be the non "tech savvy" person in the room.

[rdayt]

Facebook is a waste of time.
Now I'm going to tell everybody what I had for lunch on MySpace.

Randy

[R. Steele]

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[CSRX]

"Why Facebook"

Just read the comments in this thread, and we see why many have resorted to Facebook to stay connected with others in and out of the Trainsim world..

[crstagg]

The "old generation" developed the internet

Yeah! I remember using the internet before Al Gore invented it.

[jdgremsjr]

Yeah! I remember using the internet before Al Gore invented it.

That was an inconvenient truth. Or should I say an out and out lie, DARPA invented the ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet. For all those young whippersnappers out there that think all of us old folks know nothing about technology.

[crstagg]

That was an inconvenient truth. Or should I say an out and out lie, DARPA invented the ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet. For all those young whippersnappers out there that think all of us old folks know nothing about technology.

YEP! That was what we called it back then. That was when I learned about the "Geek Squad". No, it was not a group of Best Buy employees. It was a group of guys that were either DA Civil Servants working for MICOM on Redstone Arsenal or NASA at Marshal Space Center or for Contractors supporting NASA or MICOM. In my case it was as a contractor supporting the Patriot Air Defense Project Office. And if you had a plastic pocket protector or a Scientific Electronic Calculator in your shirt pocket you were qualified to meet for lunch once a week with the "Geek Squad".

[derekmorton]

And when it finally got to Australia, I was part of the team that did the first connection in Australia between Melbourne and Monash universities in Melbourne.
At that time 1979, Monash had the only mail server in Australia.
I was gifted a Monash.edu.au email address for being part of the project.

They did not request that I give it up until 1992 when new management took over.

[eric]

Anyone remember PLATO terminals?.....