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I’m one of those #Boomers who has been in tech for over 40 years. My kids always assumed that my generation wasn’t supposed to understand tech, and one of them complained that it wasn’t fair that their dad and I knew more than they did.

I said, “Honey, who do you think BUILT the Internet?”

#boomers
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Steve Bellovin
Steve Bellovin
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Yup! (Though it was nice when my son complained that his friends were choosing bad passwords for their accounts…)
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bytebro
bytebro
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Oh Goddess, I relate to this! People have been paying me to write code for a zillion different machines, architectures, and in as many languages since 1978; nearly half a damn century! Was visiting dial-up BBSs from about 1990. First BBS I found that was bridging Usenet newsgroups popped up about 1992, I think.
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Chris Samuel
Chris Samuel
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“I’m old enough to remember when IP addresses were still in school”
“Don’t be silly, IP addresses were never in school”
“They were in classes”

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sabik
sabik
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@chris_bloke
In the olden days, IP addresses knew their station; these days...

in summary, CIDR is woke

@Chris Samuel
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Trapped in the Age of Pisces♓️
Trapped in the Age of Pisces♓️
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We came down from the trees, developed the Internet, and then realized that we should have stayed up in the trees. I’ll just drink this Fediverse™️ Universal Beverage (now with more TCP, and less Hops) and dream of bird song and hibernation.

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Poopfairy
Poopfairy
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1973 was my start year. But I love having younger people tell me I should get a fb account because “it’s really easy”
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Dreaming of dad jazz.
Dreaming of dad jazz.
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my dad is older than the boomers and he's the one who recommended Mint Linux to me as a good daily driver Linux distribution.
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Alison Meeks
Alison Meeks
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Went off on some sprout whinging about "boomers" not knowing how to right click. I've been right clicking since before you were born. Obnoxious POS.
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init6
init6
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the ironic part is they deeply misunderstand tech and think using apps on iphone is real tech knowledge. No idea how anything works under the hood. It'd be endearing if they weren't little shits about it
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silverwizard
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@Wendy Nather their solution is do what I did! Just get better at tech then your tech pioneer parents!

Of course, this leads to the problem of my dad being like "Oh! I broke my DNS server, can you debug this zone file?"

@Wendy Nather
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Leo Fosse on Mastodon
Leo Fosse on Mastodon
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We had the CYBER system at Cal State Hayward (now Cal State East Bay) back in 1974, which connected all the Cal State universities. I thought it was so cool, I invited my kid sisters up to school to use it.

As soon as they signed in with female names they were SWARMED.

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Wendy Nather
Wendy Nather
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@eludom Um, yep, it sure does! They don’t really appreciate the story yet, but they know about it.
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