Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

In article <vkkdv7$34n49$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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I knew four of my great grandparents, all born in the late 1800s.  One
of them was born in Belgium, another was born in Germany.
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My four grandparents were born from 1910 to 1917.  All were born here in
Texas.
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One of my wife's grandparents was born in 1900 and his wife was born in
1902.  No birth certificates as they were Cherokees born in the Arkansas
back woods.
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Lynn
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My paternal grandmother was married in 1900, not sure when she was born.
She never learned to drive either.

When my father was growing up, he knew a number of ex-slaves, including
one who had been owned by my great-grandparents (if I have the story right).
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