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.
Gen X would have had to program everything themselves at one point, because there was no internet and no portable storage media, so when you got a game or program at a store, it was the source code and you had to type it all in, and possibly fix bugs and errors along the way.
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 alternatives from the start.