Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

On 12/26/2024 3:40 AM, Charles Packer wrote:

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.

All four of mine were born in the 1880s.  My paternal grandparents lived into the 1960s (outliving my father by a decade); he drove, she did not.
My maternal grandparents died young and my mother (born in 1909) was raised by *her* paternal grandparents (born in the 1860s) in a small town (population around 200 today) in Indiana.  *She* certainly experienced some changes in the environment in her 92 years.
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