Are newer generations tech literate when compared to older ones?

This isn't boomer era. Boomer era is COBALT shit and it was only used by a small minority. Being able to use something barely well enough doesn't make you tech literate either. They just used it as a means to an end for EMAILING RE:RE:RE:RE:RE massive chains, Yahoo toolbars, and to fool around with pornography sites. Still retard tier. A monkey can pound a hammer. Doesn't make it a carpenter.

>COBALT shit
wut

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What do you mean by tech literate? I can describe the working of a processor and program it in languages ranging from machine code to functional (SML and Haskell). I understand electronics enough to build things.
I don't do word processing, or Exel. I don't care much about fancy shit features and only use my smartphone as a phone and camera.

Am I illiterate?

No.

No.
Old people are not tech literate because they grew up in an age where tech was rare of simple.
Monster sipping boomers are probably the most literate because they grew up in a computer age where they could play around with computers. Think of the Commodore, DOS, win9x and XP age.
Kids today will be tech illiterate because they are not interested in hacking, only shitty mobile games and social media garbage which mostly come preinstalled on smartphones

Not really. Both groups are equally as ignorant to anything technology which infuriates me to no end because these days you can FUCKING GOOGLE everything.

They are worse than gramma. It's that bad.

>implying people wont just install linux to make it harder
that's why is switched to lonix, windoz went full normie and i needed something that could entertain me for several months

Not at all. The newest generations are plain lazy about it and don't step out of boundaries (basically what smartphones and consoles do is enough for them). Issue is, they also can't live without some of this technology. You take away their internet connection and they jump out the window.

According to recent studies, and practically observable in the major deterioration of security as well as software efficiency and effectiveness across the field, newer generations who were born with computers in their hands are better off not being born with them in their hands. Current code on both browsers and websites, as done by newer generations, manages to jointly demand 100 times more CPU and RAM for the same quantity of visible elements of 10 years ago.

>EMAILING RE:RE:RE:RE:RE
email protocol is shit it's not the user's fault

not much has changed in that regard. technology has been made more accessible and easy to use.

I was still on dialup until 2007.

Xers and Y are the most literate.

I'm a zoomer and I knew php, html, js and c# by age 12. It's probably just because I have Asperger's though.

Yes, all these fucking millennials on/g/ don't know how to use punchcards.

Thats fine but the fact you have some syndrome or learning difficulty, keep it to yourself, because no one wants to know that

they know how to use a smartphone but they cannot write a simple letter/email without sounding like retard monkeys, damn

This is not the fault of IMAP, SMTP, or any other protocol. It's the fault of the user not being able to write shit in their email client's "Subject" field properly.

>work support
>on phone with someone
>okay could you open [program name] for me
>How do I do that?!
Every. Single. Time. How hard is it to open the start menu and type in the name of a program. If it's not pinned to the desktop shit might as well not exist

The big majority and your average guy will always be illiterate and always only know the basics of whatever system is currently the most used.
We might laugh at kids trying to touch the monitor, but is it really different from most people of this generation not knowing how to use operating systems that don't have GUIs?

>If it's not pinned to the desktop shit might as well not exist
That's what I started doing when I had my geek squad-tier job. Had so many customers because my coworkers or myself forgot to add shortcuts to the application on the desktop.

>You said you installed Office on my computer!
Worst part is these are the people that taught me how to use MSDOS and Win3.x.

>check traffic with family visiting
>lots of traffic from my nephew's phone
>he's going to a lot of porn sites that are straight ad banners
>block nephew's MAC address on the router
>he says the Internet is broken
>everyone else has no problems, duh
>he literally starts to cry because he can't get on "facebook" to talk to his "girlfriend"

Smart Phones for Dumb People. Let the ones with interest learn and the idiots can stay our electric slaves. It's not like the information is exactly hidden, but you do have to look for it.

all most typical users knew in the '80s and early '90s were cd 123; 123 or LOAD "*",8 or whatever other small set of commands were required to run their small set of applications they used, and even that was quite a task for some of them

I can't even count the number of old boxes I've rescued from the recycler covered in sharpie scribblings labeling even the most obvious ports and drives, DOS drive letters and other bullshit that's pretty self evident to anyone who actually knows what they're doing. all my old Win9x/NT and Mac systems usually come to me with god awful cluttered to shit desktops with duplicate shortcuts and no semblance of organization whatsoever, honestly I'd wager the average user was even more retarded when it came to actually understanding computers back then since most people usually just used a computer for one or two expensive applications at most

the only difference between now and then is that the muscle memory of two or three commands on a keyboard has been replaced with the muscle memory of two or three buttons on a screen, shells and terminals are really not that much more difficult or "tech literate" than a GUI, merely less intimidating

>The older an individual is, the more likely they are to be comfortable using a shell of some sort.
but it doesn't at all mean they really understand or are even that good at it, give them and the zoomer a mutually unfamiliar shell or GUI and they will both flail around and struggle with it just as much

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Working an IT helpdesk makes me want to stab my fucking ears with bic pens.

My grandmother picked up computers rather well when they became a household thing. The diffence isn't how much smarter the gens are, but how early we start growing up with it.

I would beg to say though that while the latest gen is more tech connected, the tech is so dumbed down that they are less tech literate. If something breaks, they have less ability to do something about it.

For instance...just at a glance this is an easy fix for me. Most folks today would just chuck it.

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i usually repair my own PCBs when something fails but i hardly see how your picture is an "easy fix"

$ tar --version

Under-35s are absolutely tech illiterate when compared with the 35-55c cohort.

Huh? I mean many flavours work out of box now with working drivers.

Web browsers contain 90% of the average users needs.

Realistically it's a few applications holding back the average users. (Office suite, Adobe programs).

>Working an IT helpdesk makes me want to stab my fucking ears with bic pens
I think it's pretty comfy desu. $15/hr to help people change the default picture viewer from notepad or install MsOffice.

>Office suite
Pretty sure M$ offers a cheaper browser version of Office now.

Working first hand with about 12 companies around 300-500 users I have had one company move to the browser version.

You are right though, I use their outlook online app it works for me, the middle aged office workers comparing about everything though.

Complain about everything*

Depends on the generation you are talking about, Gen X is much better than most of Gen Y or Z with technology. Gen Y tends to be better than Gen Z as well. Beyond that it all depends how the person grew up.

whats a cumputer???

That's because abstraction is being piled upon abstraction. As business becomes a bigger influence on programming, everything has to be easier and cheaper to make. This means more bloat and less efficiency.

Yesterday I watched a zoomer try to get an RS232 piece of equipment working. It was funny at first but then I started to get sad for him. They've spent their whole lives with everything being plug and play. If something doesn't work right away they don't troubleshoot or read the manual. He kept insisting it was broken rather than understanding old tech needs to be configured before you can use it.

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a typical user back then just took it to a shop or sent it in on warranty

Define tech. Your grandpa probably knows how to repair a car engine you know. Do you?

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Senior 20 years ago: Scared to death of computers. If they do have one it's just a glorified photo organizer.

Seniors Now: shit post on nextdoor.com.

2008 is Vista era. Not difficult.

Peak difficulty would have been linux in the 386/486 days, followed by any other PC operating system of the period. PC hardware just was evolving at such a fast pace, you had to know your exact configuration to know whether or not some random piece of software was remotely capable of working. You had about 18 months between 386 20mhz with 2mb and 486dx2 66mhz with 16mb being considered a reasonable setup.

Vista was, more or less, just double click program.msi.