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The stereotype that grandmas and grandpas, much less parents and aunts and uncles, are inexperienced with technology is obsolete and meaningless. Enough already.
Personal computers were introduced around 1975 and were widespread in offices by 1985. The Internet was widely available by 1995.
Baby Boomers in their 70s and 80s today used networked PCs 40 years ago.
The generation before them, who grew up and became adults without connected computers in their lives, is mostly gone. (RIP ☝🏼)
Also, in an earlier version of this post, I said that the generation before the Baby Boomers, sometimes called the Silent Generation, is dead. That wasn't strictly true; about 10% of that generation worldwide is still alive. It also wasn't very thoughtful to write off so many real people as a rounding error. There are some indignant responses to my original post, which I have changed to "mostly gone". I'm sorry for what I said.
If you are unconvinced that ageist stereotypes are entirely inaccurate, maybe just don't use them because it's a shitty thing to do. Stereotypes don't have to be 100% false for us to avoid them.
@evan And the first waves of the computer revolution were originally built by (a minority of) the Greatest and Silent Generation members, they paved the way and taught us Boomers & Gen Jones.
My Mom (90+) sat a beta-run of the original Dartmouth Basic class before I was born, and only recently delegated her eMail 📧.
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