[plug] wow.. hell got a bit cooler today...

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 16:21, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Thats why they absolutely kill us with there learning curves. Total lack
> of fear, along with no wrong misconceptions to saddle them down. Even I
> still get nervous everytiime I have to reconfigure a package I havent
> dealt with before. I figure kids just do it.

I wonder though if getting exposed to earlier technologies helped us
learn the basics better. 

I was in about year 10 when I first got on the internet with a 14.4
modem (as a 28.8 would have cost about $600) with my dads Cygnus
account. Had to mess around with trumpet winsock, 16bit netscape,
webcrawler/hotbot,  talker, early html etc and later get myself into a
rage trying to get everything working on RH 5.2

These days 6 year olds are straight into Windows XP on their broadband
connection and google. Everything is there but they don't know where it
came from.

regards,

Chris