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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:23:00 -0600
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On 12/26/2024 2:40 AM, Charles Packer wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:44:34 +1300, Your Name wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-12-26 03:56:13 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
>>>
>>> Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People
>>>      https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/12/25
>>>
>>> The technology changes are so great in just a couple of decades that
>>> people do not understand how old technology worked.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> There are loads of YouTube videos of youngsters trying to use things
>> like a rotary phone, cassette tape player, etc.
>>
>> Then again, the same happens with every generation. Few adults know how
>> to use something like a spinning wheel or drive a horse-drawn wagon. :-)
> 
> Is anybody else here old enough to have had grandparents born in
> the 19th century? Theirs arguably was the generation to have
> witnessed the greatest technological change. Neither of my two
> grandmothers, from the Midwest, ever learned to drive a car.

I knew four of my great grandparents, all born in the late 1800s.  One 
of them was born in Belgium, another was born in Germany.

My four grandparents were born from 1910 to 1917.  All were born here in 
Texas.

One of my wife's grandparents was born in 1900 and his wife was born in 
1902.  No birth certificates as they were Cherokees born in the Arkansas 
back woods.

Lynn