That’s how we all learned it back then. Shear necessity.
Most boomers were too far into old age to learn it effectively. X and Z were raised in it. Now the tech has changed dramatically and you don’t need anywhere near the skill anymore, there’s a lot of younger generation that have no clue again. They can run the shit out of an iPad though.
How times have changed. I used to have print outs in my filing cabinet with virus removal guides from all the various times I contracted digitally transmitted diseases online.
I never fell for mp3.exe, but I did install Real Player and use the built in browser once.
I learned how to remove a Trojan virus that copy pastes itself into a few directories before mom got home from work at 9 years old.
People wonder why I know so much about computers, a large part was fucking up the expensive family PC repeatedly.
That’s how we all learned it back then. Shear necessity.
Most boomers were too far into old age to learn it effectively. X and Z were raised in it. Now the tech has changed dramatically and you don’t need anywhere near the skill anymore, there’s a lot of younger generation that have no clue again. They can run the shit out of an iPad though.
I feel like that’s the case for a lot of our generation
How times have changed. I used to have print outs in my filing cabinet with virus removal guides from all the various times I contracted digitally transmitted diseases online.