I have somehow found myself doing a lighthearted talk on retro hacking this Wednesday. Would anyone here happen to know anything about it?

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    11 hours ago

    I cannot speak for other countries, but here in America, I blame the fact that once family and personal computers became a big thing they stopped teaching about them in schools.

    I know I never had a single class or subject related to using a computer. They just expected us to know how to use them.

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      10 hours ago

      They just expected us to know how to use them.

      And they still do. The “kids these days and their compyooturs” fallacy. Irks me to my core.

      I was fortunate to have a middle school typing and graphic design class, and in highschool I learned hardware troubleshooting and stuff (A+ equivalent IT work)…but that “career path” of flipping computers that people downloaded the wrong screensaver on kinda died out.

      Still learned a lot though! If the I.T field was still hanging out with buddies in some dungeon nobody visited, I might be in that field today lol.