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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"

"grandma, i literally only typed dir."

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That could be, it was a rough period. I wasn't around for the beginning, and even the end is approximate as locked down mobile OSs and similarly user-opaque systems gradually came to dominate.

Kids today can still learn computers, but they have to explicitly try. I think something analogous happened with early cars. The first guys had to be able to personally maintain and repair the whole thing, and then over time it gradually became an area for experts and the odd enthusiast only.