Are you old enough to remember a time when the only way to access the Internet was through the computer room?
>>223456566Did boomers actually have 'typing class' where they had to be taught how to press buttons that are labeled?
>>223456566I'm old enough to remember when the internet didn't exist.
>>223456566And it was a better time. Using the Internet was an exciting activity. Not so much anymore. Now it's just an addiction
>>223456566I remember playing games on like 6 CD roms
>>223456816This is just your body aging, not necessarily our way of dealing with technology that has degraded. There's nothing you can do about things becoming uninteresting and you finding nothing to fill the void as time passes by.
>>223456566I had a PC when 28kbps modems were considered a luxury and there wasn't anything interesting in the internet.
>>223456716Not a boomer but yeah, I type faster than a secretary and I learnt on an actual typewriter
Briefly, in 1994, I only had internet access thanks to sun computers in a library. It really was a magical room. Shortly after that and for the next six years I had dial up, then got broadband in 2000.
>>223456842This. I had to start doing bungie jumping and parachuting just to feel something. I only feel now when I put my body at risk of death.
>>223456842No, you moron. Until late 00s, internet was wild. Endless. Google actually worked and brought you millions of results no matter what you were looking for, and if google didn't work then you had things like DMOZ.One day web archive will have a google- like index allowing to searching the archived webpages by exact text and people will see what kind of treasure trove the old net used to be.
>>223456716I had that in middle school in 2011. It was an optional class and my mom forced me to do it, and I'll be forever grateful for that. It pains me to look at people typing with two fingers and taking ten seconds for something I'd type out in two.
>>223456716Zoomers genuinely don't know how to use a PC anymore. They've grown up with tablets and smartphones, so when you give them a keyboard they write at the speed of 5 words a minute
>>223457108Ye it's funny, I (27) am part of the last generation who knows how to use computers. I imagine ChatGPT won't be increasing those numbers.
>>223456716yea it was the flash game class
>>223456716Yes.We had in school typing exercises, basic Excel stuff and stuff like that.And IT issues as computers were infected by all kinds of malware.
>>223456716I never had a class for that, but Mavis Beacon's typing tutors were popular pieces of non-gaming software back then.
>>223456716Yep. We even did basic websites. Eventually the class always turned into a quake LAN party because some guy smuggled in his disc and installed it on every computer, and the teachers didn't give a shit.
it truly was a better time
>>223456987>going back to random mid 00's captures of sites i used to frequentit's amazing that any of this shit is archived, let alone so goddamn much
>>223456716>>223457108I think I, as an older Zoomer, am part of the last generation to have had typing lessons at school (remember Type to Learn?) we sat in the computer lab doing typing exercises for an hour, once or twice per week. The funny thing is, when I started playing an instrument in 5th grade my band class was at the exact same time as these typing classes, so I fell into a mechanical disadvantage against my peers.
>>223456716Actual baby boomers had typewriter typing classes that were mostly for women. In the mid-2000s we had state mandated computer literacy tests in both middle and high school. Everyone learned touch typing. Young zoomers and below don't know how to use anything that doesn't involve a touch screen or a very simple OS.
First thing I ever did when I used the internet was look up free ringtones that I would input on my Nokia 3210
I had a computer typing class in elementary school once a week. What would always happen was all the kids who were new to computers did kind of alright with it, but any kid who was already familiar with computers would just ignore the instructions and just fiddle around with the program or do something else. I remember basically failing the class because I somehow changed the language on the typing program and did that one instead of english and they didn't have a way of grading my work lol.
>>223456566I'm still living it. My only access is a desktop in my room. I own a flip phone and i'm free of the brainrot when I leave my house.
>>223456566The single computer in my childhood household, which was used by the whole family, was set up in a corner in the living room. I can't even imagine how rich you'd have to be to have a dedicated "computer room".
>>223456566okay richie rich with the dedicated computer room. us poors just had a shitty computer with dialup in the basement
>>223456566I've had a computer in my bedroom since I was 10 and I haven't left it since
My computer room was the outdoors terrace for almost 10 years :(
>>223456716>had to be taught how to press buttons that are labeledThe training was specifically about NOT doing this because hunt and peck is terrible typing. It was about learning home row touch typing. But it was designed for retards and spent far too long on retarded home row exclusive phrases like>alas; a sad lad had a fad
>>223457561>Type to LearnThis triggered a PTSD flashback in my mind. I remember in grade school they also had us use these plastic sheets to cover our hands so we couldn't see the keyboard whilst typing
>>223456716Zoomers cant type without looking at the keyboard, so the joke is on you
>>223456716I had an "exam" in elementary school in 2001. It was a minigame from some obscure educational CD. You had to type a long sequence of random characters with a timer, and your progress was illustrated by a Mario- like guy walking towards a treasure chest.The competition between the few consoletards and PCfags (at least half of the kids either didn't have PCs at all or it was DAD'S PROPERTY DO NOT TOUCH) was really fun.
>>223456566Yes. In fact, I'm old enough to remember having a dial-up internet connection.
>>223456716You can't imagine how retarded your average boomer used to be when it comes to computers or anything more complicated than a VHS player. It's like they could not grasp the very idea of interacting with a stateful device without levers or analog indicators.Retard tier courses were absolutely necessary for those people.You write a manual where you tell the fucking boomer to press [Page Up] to do this or that, and then you realize those fucking imbeciles have no idea what is a fucking [Page Up].Or the "press any key". You might remember the jokes about it. It wasn't a joke. Not really.>I am a boomer and I can't find a key called "any">I better turn the PC off before I break something, making some additional damage to the data in process>Hello, technical support?
>>223456987>>223457356I have no idea how to use the internet archive. I said this over ten years ago, and people said, "you'll learn." I never did. Same with pirating, which is why there are tons of movies that I've wanted to see for years and know that I will never see. Supposedly, my IQ is 128, which is two points away from genius, but, if it's really 128, it's obvious that IQ tests are measuring something other than intelligence or basic problem solving, because I'm effectively retarded. I have no idea what those tests really measure. Some people min real life think that I'm smart, and I honestly think that it's because of the sound of my voice.
>>223458457Boomers are the ones that made the tech, you fucking retard
>>223458457Zoomer rage
>>223456566Yup. I remember sneaking into my mother's room where the PC was at night while she was at work and covering up the tower with a blanket to hide the modem noises from my grandma upstairs. I also remember computer lab day being the best day of the week at school. The iPhone didn't come out until my senior year of high school and I personally didn't get a smart phone until 2011 roughly.
>>223458502The wayback machine isn't convenient to use. Lots of sites with a snapshot of only a root page and none of the child pages. Or a snapshot of a version of the root page for which links to child pages are broken but the child pages are archived if you can find them another way. Lots of sites that had changes over the years which have a fuckton of snapshots that you must crawl through to find the right one because you can't see at a glance that these twenty snapshots are all from a period when the site was down and had only a plaintext message. And there's no search function, it relies on a url, so if you can't come up with just the right url you can't get shit.
>>223456716Fuck zoomies are retarded, the point of the class was to be able to type without looking down at the keyboard.
>>223458519Yes, all boomers were computer engineers. Of course.
>>223458502IQ tests measure pattern recognition. You have like mild savantism or something so you do well at the particular abstract kinds of patterns they use but not practical real patterns.
>>223456566unlimited data plans have been a disaster for the human race. it should still cost a penny a minute to make calls or use the internet.
>>223456735No you aren't unless you're 90 years old.
>>223458457My mother uses a computer every day as an accountant and is like this. She has no idea how to find files on her pc, or how the file system work at all. If it's not on the desktop, it's supposedly been "deleted by someone else" or "lost". She doesn't even know how to use Word.
You guys remember “Fecal Japan?” I made that the loading screen for every computer in computer class. The teacher who was formally the typing teacher didn’t know anything about computers and couldn’t fix it. It gets worse…much worse. I did the photobucket hack on the hottest chick in high school and she had an entire gallery of selfie nudes in front of a mirror. I was going to replace Fecal Japan with one of her pictures…..and I just couldn’t do it. Damn conscience. Ran into her years and years later, and she wasn’t hot anymore. We became friends and I told her what I almost did, and she told me that she would’ve 100% committed suicide had I done it.
>>223459215>teacher who was formally the typing teacher didn’t know anything about computers and couldn’t fix it.The sheer number of absolute lamers getting hired as computer science teacher was mind blowing.My favorite tricks:>add a custom .bat file to be executed in autoexec.bat at the startup, to display warning about a drive failure>make a screenshot of the windows desktop, then set it as the background image and hide all icons>run actual malware redirecting all URLs in the Microsoft Explorer to scam sites
>>223458502Internet IQ tests add like 30 points anon.
at my school in the 90s after you got thru all the typing lessons on mavis beacon teaches typing, you could play sim city for the rest of the hourso we all became expert typists so we could play sim city sooner
>>223456860>>223456716Yes, because typewriters and computers were still fucking expensive so this let you train for college where everything has to be typed, not hand written.My school's typing class was a room full of computers with zero internet connection and our teacher was a real battle-axe who'd send you to all day detention if you didn't have your typing book (full of everything you practiced typing out on you). I had to fake explosive diarrhea multiple times to hide in the bathroom when I didn't have my book with me for class, but it was a small school and it was impossible to skip class as everyone snitched if you tried skipping
>>223457331wtf is going on here
>>223456716for whoever needs ittypingclub.comevery other resource is garbage
>>223456716I remember typing class and a class learning to program in Basic. We had those old green monochrome monitors.
>>223459387That seems like it was a pretty effective method to teach that.
>>223456836>CD romsKids these days...
>>223459387I absolutely crushed Mavis beacon. I was the only kid to finish it and I did it in like two weeks. Then I got to play. Runescape the rest of the semester
>>223459971gay staged bullshit anon. First time on the internet?
>run some ancient Cortez peters software for teaching typing>it had some hard limit for errors and wouldn't consider anything after it an error>you could just mash the keyboard as fast as possible and test at 600 wpm>teacher threatened to suspend me for damaging school property
>>223456716I had typing class so I could write fast, but my mom had full how to use computer classes she learned how to use a mouse there.
>>223456566Yes, I also remembere we once went in there after classes when some retard left the door unlocked and wiped all hard drives for the lulz.
>>223460578Based retard
>>223456716You shouldn't need to look at the labels retardlord
>>223456716One of the greatest enablist of technological progress:The fact that computer keyboards took the WASD from typewriters.The adaptation was seamless from one to the other because of that
>>223461804Tortured souls of those who were forced to use Dvorak at work are still haunting this world
>>223461926There was certainly a lot of work for improvement in the qwerty keyboard.It could absolutely be better, my left hand does 0 motion my right hand does all the motion.But there was no space on the market for re-learning something better. Now there's space. You can easily have two keyboards now, they are cheap as fuck, now it's the perfect time for some improvement and testing better placements.
>>223456566>having a whole room just for computersWell lah-dee-dah mister French man. We had a single computer in the corner of the classroom.
>>223462402>Well lah-dee-dahReal boomer here
>>223456566Yeah, and you couldn't use the phone while you were online.>>223456716Yeah you little shit. I can type like 60 to 70 words a minute because of it.
>>223456716Better than getting dumped infront of an ipad by adults trying to cling on to their teen years.
>>223459971Moderating his top 8
>>223459971Myspace used to have your top 8 friends you could rotate around, it would cause a bunch of petty drama getting moved underneath someone. There's a Seinfeld episode about a chicks speed dial that pretty much captures the same thing
>>223462841Yeah I used to only have bands and famous people on mine. Sometimes I would dp little shitty photoshops of me in their pictures then I would upload them to my page. I would get comments like , "wow lil jon really let you get on stage with him" or "dude how the hell did you meet Tila tequila" or "these pics are obviously fake don't you have anything better to do"
>>223456716Yes but only women went to them.
>>223456566I had the internet at home in the 90s.
>>223459066NTA but I was alive in the 80s and teh internet did not exist in the 80s.
>>223456987We're already backlogged a century on things people used to care about but don't now. Someone under 20 now is as likely to dig through old websites as radio dramas from the 1930's, everything is essentially the sole domain of whoever was around when it was new.
>>223456566Yes. It was 1995 or so. There was a local place where you paid an hourly rate to "surf the web". And you could use the room in school.I used my 2400 baud modem to connect to local BBS from my house using my 386. Those were the fucking days. >>223456735This too. Better times.
>>223456716Yes, and we can type faster and more efficiently than you can. By a lot. Sure, you COULD teach yourself, but you didn't.
>>223456716I still remember the teacher walking around the class saying over and over: "A, S, D, F, J, K, L, sem".That was the first day. The year was 1996.
>>223456735I had a screensaver like that on my 1999 Pentium laptop.
>>223456716It's to teach you how to type quickly you mongoloid.
>>223456566Yes and it was better.
>>223457811Me too.
>>223459286What a funny "prank", anon. Making extra work for the teachers. You should be so proud of pretending you actually did any of that.
>>223463846I'm 40 and I love old time radio.
>>223459387>>223462769This was crap. There wasn't even zombies.
>>223456566Yeah. But then we had CAT 5 installed 26 years or so ago. I've only just replaced it with CAT 6 within the last year.
>>223464062>What a funny "prank", anon. Making extra work for the teachers. You should be so proudI am. Only the malware thing was done by somebody else and I could bet it was not intentional. It was still funny though.
>>223456716You joke, but have you seen alphas try and use a keyboard nowadays?
I loved this game
>>223464163It looks cool afIt reminds me of a hobby project written in Turbo Pascal I have seen around 2000, it imitated the graphics of Hexen (or Heretic?) and typing was illustrated by a fight against monsters from the game.
>no phone posters>no indians zoomers will never understand how good things can be
>>223456716In the early 2000s I had a typing class where all we did was play Carmen Sandiego games that taught you how to type
>>223464232Same. I also liked Word Rescue.
>>223459387Sim City's got some serious ramp up time, there's no way you could get a good town going in time. what an absolute tease of a system
>>223462539Well I know your soil pH is around 9.6 and it needs to be 7-8 max.
>>223456716Do zoomers really never learn to type properly?I've heard that you guys barely know how to use computers anymore, but jesus christ.
>>223465200Of course the internet came through the phone. It's called a mobile hotspot.
>>223459387talking mad shit in runescape and WoW trained me into a better typist than any typing classI also peck at a professional speed which used to make all the teachers so fucking salty it was like breaking the matrix program. They couldn't throw enough ritalin at the problem to keep me from reaching through the veil
>>223466589You can save games you know.
>>223466973No, you don't "peck" as fast as knowing homerow. You just know homerow or you don't.
>>223456716Yeah and it actually worked. Zoomers don't know how to use a keyboard and type like the faggot retards that you are.
>>223456566I'm old enough to remember before Trump secretly converted to Judaism.
>>223456716>press buttons that are labeledYou shouldn't need to look at the buttons. That was the point of the class.
>>223466973My mom owned a Radioshack so we had a computer in the house starting in like 1990. By the time elementary school started having computer classes I already had developed an idiosyncratic method of fast typing that I still do to this day.
>>223456716I've been teaching some coding recently, it's block based stuff but when they do need to type something it's painful seeing how schools aren't teaching them to type, and when they are doing typing they're apparently doing it on fucking touch screens
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