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right? my first pc was a 486 with windows 3.11 and ms bob lol and am still a millennial, i guess that means i grew up with internet devices, damn kids:/
I wouldn't say we made it great. Gives us too much credit. As much as I hate sweeping generalizations I do think the golden age of the internet was pre-facebook.
Well, I'm not claiming credit for myself, I did scant little for making the internet better, apart from about a hundred thousand forum posts scattered among a half dozen sites, most of which are long gone by now.
To me, what made the internet great was individuals creating their own websites to host their own content. Every website was unique in their own way, and the amassing of content eventually led to the ability of being able to find almost anything on the internet. This started to change abruptly when Facebook came along and everything became centralized and homogenized by large corporate entities seeking to control the flow of information and monetize it. Now I suspect at least 75% of the internet is made up of bots, paid shills, and advertorials, which leads to the meme about the fake internet. That abundance of information and knowledge is disappearing in favor of government and corporate interest.
And Billy Wilson, Redwood, ShugaShack Steve, Sharky, Tom, Anand, and the list goes on....
Millenial is the worst demographic, its too broad a time range during a massive tech boom. I have next to nothing in common with those born in the later 80s and then 90s. They have such a different life experience, by the time they where teens smart cell phone where a thing.
Generation X is also a wide time range, representing 1965-1980. It's the same 15 year time range that millennial represents (1981-1996).
Biologically, adolescence is defined as ages 10 through 24. Socially, it varies by culture. I think in the US, at least, it is considered to be 12-17.
Yeah that's why I picked facebook's general release because it coincided with the cell phone becoming a smart phone and things started changing rapidly at that point.
Sarah Stankorb, the person who coined the term, would fall right into the middle of her definition of "xennial" (1977-1983). "Coincidentally," she was born in 1980. Has "xennial" really gained traction in common parlance anywhere outside of academia?Some of you millennials might really be... Xennials.
The only consistent observation I've made about the various poorly defined generations is that every one of them blames the other generations for the world's problems.
At least everyone can agree that video is usually a terrible medium for PC hardware reviews. (What? No!?)
Each new generation also thinks they slid out from between their mother's thighs possessing innate knowledge and wisdom surpassing all previous generations. They'll fix the world's ills where all who came before failed!Some of you millennials might really be... Xennials.
The only consistent observation I've made about the various poorly defined generations is that every one of them blames the other generations for the world's problems.
At least everyone can agree that video is usually a terrible medium for PC hardware reviews. (What? No!?)
Only because some parents aggressively pump them full of that as a zero-day malware.
Slight suspicions that this next 'story arc' of the hardware 'reporting' arena, it'll be like the next NFT/influencer pump and dumps. No passion, no involvement, just money to use their credentials and image to shill something, That might work for half a year, particularly on the less intelligent, what I see long term happening is the same thing that impacts NFTs and most new crypto rug pulls. People are very wary of them, know they are almost always scam and thus engagement drops.
Absolutely refreshing.
Absolutely refreshing.
Each new generation has access to far more information than the previous. So in theory they should be more knowledgeable. But how they use that vast source of information is up to their individual intelligence which is innate, and not a generational thing.
I think the complaints have more to do with being forced to break with old habits than actual disruption. There exist other (and arguably, better) indicators to help purchasing decisions, which is the value of reviewers to consumers. Indeed what good is lamenting about MSRP from six years ago if you cannot buy the card from six years ago today at its original MSRP? Frequently ignoring inflation even? What reviewers now have to conclude is "based on its performance and the market situation at launch, this card would be a good deal at or below $X" (image from gputracker via reddit)
WTF? The 2080TI was never €1600 while it was available. This is clearly some leftover stock they are trying to price gouge. Stocks of 2080Ti ran out months before the launch of the 3080 here.
This "communication divide" meshes squarely with my experience. I recall when my wife and I were first dating years ago (I'm a Xennial, she's squarely a Millennial), she was surprised when I'd call her to plan dates, travel etc. instead of communicating in a flurry of texts. And apropos here, she recently asked me to send her reviews for wireless headsets. I sent her a bunch of in-depth written reviews: she retorted asking if there "were any shorter videos to watch."
WinMo was a thing in 2008 too... https://www.gsmarena.com/htc_tytn_ii-2024.php the one after it had space between the buttons!!! in 2009 https://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_pro2-2690.php I liked the Tytn2/AT&T Tilt because it had external GPS and cellular antenna ports. It might have been the first phone for sale with GPS in the USA at least on AT&T. If you plugged it in and turned the polling rate up with an external antenna it worked really, really well.
I got my 1st smartphone, a Cingular 8125 in my junior year of high school, I hail from 1988. HTC Wizard/8125, then Hermes/8525, then Kaiser/Tilt, then Rhodium/Tilt 2. It was a great time tuning them all to run well. Switched to Android when v. 2.3 was new.
What matters is when you got internet access on your phone. Smartphone itself is just a fancy toy without the internet. Smartphones / Phones in general were a nerd thing until the iphone became mainstream.
I had internet and T9 on my 1st phone in 2002. I bought the smartphones mostly for the no more t9, faster 2g and 3g modems, and USB WWAN modem plus easy access to searching things without having to write it down and search it next time I was at a connected desk. I argued with the teacher in elementary school that handwriting was outmoded because I would probably never write anything down in my professional life. I was right. I haven't written anything at all since I bought my house and had to sign my name many times.
Who cares what some group decides your label is?