All I hear about is “boomers” this, “Millennials” that, “Gen Z” that, etc.

Why no one talk about Gen X? What happened to them? They just vanished like in Infinity War? Or are we mistaken Gen Z by Boomers?

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    They aren’t as tech savvy as millennials.

    We built the tech. I was there, three decades ago.

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      I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.

      Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.

      Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.

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      Some of the genx built it, but the rest of them were too old (too busy) to learn it. The kids learned it.

      X86 was not built by genx if you want to get pedantic.

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        12 hours ago

        I was talking about the dot-com technology of 30 years ago, not the 8-bit microchip technology of ~50 years ago.

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          Web “1” and web2.0 was awful. Kids of that time had to troubleshoot it on their own.