The smart phone generation seem to have lower computer literacy than millennials largely due to smart phones hiding away a lot of the workings. In the UK age verification for adult sites came into force yesterday and like everywhere streaming services are getting very enshittified. This is going to lead kids to discovering tor, VPNs, pirating, how to make deep fakes (to fool ai based age verification), and other ways of getting what they want without restrictions.
Born between '65 and '80? I’m from the lower half of that age bracket and I never did that even once. Knowing the magic incantations to load the game from tape to memory, yes.
Typing in was never “a thing” in the sense that yes, people did it, magazines had these pages of code, but there have been popular consumer friendly ways to load software right from the start. The start being the start of mass adoption of home computers.
I’m a millennial and I did it more than once on hardware older than I was, but because I wanted to, not because there were no other options.
load “jumpman”, 8, 1
Press play on tape…
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