Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

In article <9fqgnj9kle5sb9thncusua5pmt0uun3reh@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:40:06 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> 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.

>
No - though my grandfather (b 1901) at the end of his love kept saying
how amazing it was to be born before the Wright brothers' first flight
and seeing the TV coverage of Neil Armstrong on the moon.
>

My maternal grandfather Strahan served in WWI, so he must have been
old enough to enlist. So probably born in the 19th century? He
was a Quartermaster, second class, by the time he got the Navy
Cross so probably not some tween with pasted on moustache.

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