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Showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.

Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You're thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha

[–] Zahille7 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Globulart 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, you must be from gen Z.

Yes new generations will continually be created and older generations will always sneer at them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lol that is the usual pattern right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gen Alpha are everyone born 2010 and later, so yeah, they're 13 at the oldest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know how to tell you this....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Introducing Generation Alpha.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] Zahille7 1 points 1 year ago

That was awful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs