Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

On 12/26/2024 2:40 AM, Charles Packer wrote:

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:44:34 +1300, Your Name wrote:
 

On 2024-12-26 03:56:13 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

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Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People
     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/12/25
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The technology changes are so great in just a couple of decades that
people do not understand how old technology worked.
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Lynn

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There are loads of YouTube videos of youngsters trying to use things
like a rotary phone, cassette tape player, etc.
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Then again, the same happens with every generation. Few adults know how
to use something like a spinning wheel or drive a horse-drawn wagon. :-)

 Is anybody else here old enough to have had grandparents born in
the 19th century? Theirs arguably was the generation to have
witnessed the greatest technological change. Neither of my two
grandmothers, from the Midwest, ever learned to drive a car.

My 84 year old uncle grew up with his Civil War veteran grandfather in their home in Texarkana.  His grandfather was born around 1850 and was a muleskinner in the Texas 5th Artillery unit from Texarkana.  They took four 4 inch or 6 inch cannons to Virgina in 1862 ? and fought in a couple of battles.  They ate the mules walking back to Texas and threw the cannons in a ditch somewhere.  His grandfather passed away at the age of 100 in their home.
Lynn