old people don't understand the internet

the internet was fine till the young 'uns sold their souls to myspace and facebook :willy_nilly:

i remember when geeks "owned" the internet ... now it belongs to rupert murdoch

 

That picture of Keith Richards gives me the Blues.

 

I don't know that they don't understand the internet. But I do know that some don't understand that when there's a line up, pay with a bill and keep your fucking change to yourself.

 

Not true!

I still own an operate a vcr, sometimes to watch my old horror and sci-fi movies, sometimes to work out with Jane Fonda and other assorted 80's and 90's aerobic workout tapes.
My DVD player is my computer, and my fiance has a playstation 3, so when I move in with him, I will inherit rights to a blu-ray player. He also has a Wii. I have a Nintendo DS Lite (would rather not ruin my eyes with the new 3D one or get the newer ones that can't play GBA games), we share custody of a PSP, but I still have an SNES. I think I have a good balance of old and new. I don't know what I would do with anything further back than that. I'm sure Atari was impressive back in the day, but at this point, I don't know if I would want to go back any further than the classic NES (I want one of those emulators that does both NES and SNES for when my SNES dies).

 

You have a point. THough personally I don't make fun of older people and I see they have wisdom but not all of them are wise. I'd rather be a toddler again.

 

i remember back in the 1970's, when my father was forced, into having a pushtone telephone installed in the house for business reasons.

my mother bitched and moaned to end about, "how hard and complex that goddamn piece of telephone shit is to use!"

a couple of years after that, my high school offered the first class in computers, and i was excited to no end to start learning about computers first hand!
both of my parants bitched about how i was, "throwing my education down the drain, learning about useless science fiction shit like computers that would never amount to anything."
they tried their best to arm twist me to take calculus instead because, as they put it, "that is a real hardcore life skill that will serve me will in life." yeah, right. i can't even remember, the last time i use any of that algebra i sweated blood over learning in both junior and high school; yet, that intro computer class back in 1975-76 has served me soooooo super very, very, very, well as a "hardcore life skill," more so then algebra ever has.

 

I just wish my dad would turn off his caps lock. Even on the internet, he's yelling.

 

it's funny to me when 'young' people think they are 'hip' because they know the internet...hip aint a thing; a pwc aint 'hip'; 'stuff' aint hip...you can't buy hip..you don't 'get it' by 'knowing the internet'. hip is a state of mind.....or my xgf's rear end....

 

However, you can purchase badass and I am selling my surplus.

 

youth is totally wasted on the young

 

Let’s say you were suddenly transformed back into a teenager with the knowledge and experience of 48 year old.

Wouldn’t you have an unfair advantage over your peers


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I say you are only as old as you feel. Sure my 64 year old grandmother needs help sometimes with her computer but that's normal. Some old people understand the internet and others don't.

 

I certainly would! :2thumbsup:

Actually I wonder...law of unintended consequences an' all...
might not work out like you'd think...

 

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My dad isn't that old but he doesn't understand the internet at all. There are varying degrees of proficiency though. Lots of my young friends have no idea what they're doing and have the shittest computers ever because of it. On the other hand, my boyfriend makes a little money by fixing his mom's friend's computers because they're all tech-illiterate. There are people of every age group who are totally ignorant of the workings of the internet: which is why there's still a huge market for virus scanners of all fucking things.

But think about it: how many of the punk kids you see sitting on the internet all day know how to change their own oil? Or use a map? Or do anything without referencing Google?

 

one of the guys responsible for the internets died today [or yesterday?], had something to do with inventing packet switching

[brain dead at the moment sorry]

he was 84