Subj : Re: 33 Years!
To   : Gamgee
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Dec 01 2022 23:48:25

 Ga>  Ar>> Back in the early day, the only BBS'ers were Geeks ... After 33
 Ga>  Ar>> years, I am going to bet the farm that is the same.
 Ga> 
 Ga>  Ar>> In todays climate, what were once called Geeks and Nerds and now
 Ga>  Ar>> called "social media influencer"  Really ?
 Ga> 
 Ga>  bo> I think the "Geeks and Nerds" back then are completely different to t
 Ga>  bo> vapid "Social media influencers" today.
 Ga> 
 Ga>  Ni> In the early 90s, it seemed that many people who were using
 Ga>  Ni> computers were people who were actually interested in computers
 Ga>  Ni> and learning about them.  It seemed that a bigger percentage of
 Ga>  Ni> computer users back then understood the technical standpoint of
 Ga>  Ni> computer things.  Later, especially when the internet became
 Ga>  Ni> popular, it seemed almost everyone had a computer and there were
 Ga>  Ni> a lot more people who didn't really know much about computers but
 Ga>  Ni> would use them for work, etc..
 Ga> 
 Ga> Absolutely agree.  Seriously, I'd put the percentage of "back then" at 
 Ga> 80% + , and nowadays... 5% max.
 Ga> 

I concur.  I think if you include mobile phones, then 5% becomes quite generous.

My opinion is that the "masses" were brought into computing too quickly.  I'm amazed how silly many peoples workflows are, such as taking a photo of a web page on a screen, then sending that photo in order to transmit a message.  Even educated people I work with store data in terrible, inefficient ways (think scanned printouts of documents, instead of just in a database).

The push to make computers a mass commodity has crippled us.

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