Older people often say that kids are so smart, because they take to computers so quickly. This video shows the fallacy of that deduction. It’s all based on one’s realm of experience.
These kids had difficulty with a task that any seven year old could accomplish sixty years ago. They didn’t even know what a dial tone was.
I was twelve years old the first time I used a "touch tone" phone. I thought I was living the George Jetson life.
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Older people often say that kids are so smart, because they take to computers so quickly. This video shows the fallacy of that deduction. It’s all based on one’s realm of experience.
These kids had difficulty with a task that any seven year old could accomplish sixty years ago. They didn’t even know what a dial tone was.
I was twelve years old the first time I used a "touch tone" phone. I thought I was living the George Jetson life.
This is natural. as you'd not know what it was if you did not live when it was in use. video's like this one are STUPID. even more so, than what they are making those in it out as. Old folks. pull this crap all the time. kids today, can't tune a carb. or set points, or drive a model T. why would they? it is skills they'll most likely never use nor. need.. but , ya. video's of people not knowing simple things that they've never been in contact with makes them stupid, to most viewers that the elevator doesn't leave the ground floor. Heck. you could most likely hand a 8-18 year old a flip phone and ask them to text you a message and get the dear in the headlights look. Outdated ,not used anymore technology is this way for a reason. it's limits were found and something better came about. and by better I mean faster and easier to use. or that function was made to be done automaticly. like engine timing that on most brass era vehicles you had to control while driving. Simple minded get kicks out of video's like the one above. the VERY simple minded
This is natural. as you'd not know what it was if you did not live when it was in use. video's like this one are STUPID. even more so, than what they are making those in it out as. Old folks. pull this crap all the time. kids today, can't tune a carb. or set points, or drive a model T. why would they? it is skills they'll most likely never use nor. need.. but , ya. video's of people not knowing simple things that they've never been in contact with makes them stupid, to most viewers that the elevator doesn't leave the ground floor. Heck. you could most likely hand a 8-18 year old a flip phone and ask them to text you a message and get the dear in the headlights look. Outdated ,not used anymore technology is this way for a reason. it's limits were found and something better came about. and by better I mean faster and easier to use. or that function was made to be done automaticly. like engine timing that on most brass era vehicles you had to control while driving.Click to show Simple minded get kicks out of video's like the one above. the VERY simple minded
Noted.
Edit: That is you third shot at me in four short days. When can I hit back? Or, should I just sit back and take it?
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Edit: That is you third shot at me in four short days. When can I hit back? Or, should I just sit back and take it?
How is it a SHOT at you. ?? did you produce that trash?? if so. then yes take it as a shot at you. cupcake nothing I've posted here, has been a shot at you. I don't even think of you when I post. seems you have a guilt complex. I wasn't even thinking of you when I posted in this thread. sorry. do you need a safe space. oh and yes that was a shot at you. THE 1ST ONE. Why did I think anything would have changed here. same children. different day.
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How is it a SHOT at you. ?? did you produce that trash?? if so. then yes take it as a shot at you. cupcake nothing I've posted here, has been a shot at you. I don't even think of you when I post. seems you have a guilt complex. I wasn't even thinking of you when I posted in this thread. sorry. do you need a safe space. oh and yes that was a shot at you. THE 1ST ONE. Why did I think anything would have changed here. same children. different day. Click to show
Spoken like an educated man.
Listen here, how do you keep an azzhole in suspense?
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My Grandparents still had rotary phones until about 10 years ago, one is still mounted on the wall, they only upgraded because they wanted an answering machine. I had to be taught how to dial them when I was ~10 years old in the 90's, I was used to corded push button phones.
The concept isn't at all intuitive, and dialing 7 or 10 digit numbers takes forever.
Not directed at any one person in particular. More of a generalized statement.
I never want to silence Boondawg. Nor anyone else. I only want to speak freely. I enjoy his copy and paste. I have mentioned it many times.
As I write this, there is a grey squirrel with a boner chasing around another grey squirrel. She is trying to feed on the sunflower seeds, and he is on an absolute mission to procreate.
I knew a 30-something a few years ago that couldnt read a clock. If it wasnt digital he had no idea what the hands meant, and worse didnt care. His whole attitude was "its so old it belongs in the trash anyway "
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