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Re:The digital natives are not who you think they are by temp329192 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:15PM (#27135240)
It's probably that older people growing up with computers needed to do something with them (could not just stream twitch) and hence when you had a computer, then you was what today would be called a power user.

Today, just millions of normal people use computers, tablets, phones, appliances every day and they get along fine - but they are not power users, since you can spend your time on the computer with almost zero knowledge about it.

A concrete example would be that it's totally fine today to not know, what a file or folder is - because all you see is a feed or an album.

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Re:The digital natives are not who you think they are by ghaff on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:29PM (#27135358)
For example, to run your game, you might very well have needed to go into your computer and make changes to your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

Do a lot of kids (above a certain age) actually not know what a file or folder is? Doing perfectly ordinary day-to-day stuff which is not at all technical in nature, I find I have to save and open files all the time.

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