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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:59:45 -0500
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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.

My grandparents were born between 1884 and 1890. All lived to see space 
flight, but only one to see the moon landing.  Neither grandmother ever 
had a driver's license, both living in that civilized age where the 
local grocery was not three miles away.


William Hyde