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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 23:16:31 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <9fqgnj9kle5sb9thncusua5pmt0uun3reh@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:40:06 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>No - though my grandfather (b 1901) at the end of his love kept saying
>how amazing it was to be born before the Wright brothers' first flight
>and seeing the TV coverage of Neil Armstrong on the moon.
>
My maternal grandfather Strahan served in WWI, so he must have been
old enough to enlist. So probably born in the 19th century? He 
was a Quartermaster, second class, by the time he got the Navy
Cross so probably not some tween with pasted on moustache. 

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