Re:I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and x...
by SamoyedFurFluff on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:30AM
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Who are you talking about when you say “ an entire economy that sprung out of people who were exposed to computers at an early age”? I genuinely have no idea what economy you’re referring to. Certainly not software development, as the original computer programmers (the people that built the things that later inspired children when exposed to computers in the home) were exposed well before computers were small enough to be in the home. Do you mean influencers? Streamers? Neither of those are considered generally to be positive for the social development of children.
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Re:I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and x...
by azinman2 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:41PM
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I’m assuming they’re referring to the people who grew up in the 80s and maybe even pre-internet 90s that then participated in the tech scene over the past 15 years. I also don’t they’re talking about kids now but rather then.
Re:I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and x...
by SamoyedFurFluff on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:31AM
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I don’t know if that’s true either. Exposure to computing in the 80s or pre-internet 90s as a child would be a small minority of households enjoying the existing tooling, manuals, guides, games, and interfaces built by innovators before their time. It makes no sense to argue an economy was built on these households in particular, especially when tech is so much more diverse than whatever minority of families were able to afford spending a ton of money on in-home computing devices in a set of time.