My parents are Gen X, me and my older brother are Gen Z.

Parents keep asking, nay, DEMANDING, for us to fix their shit. Then i proceeded to have a fight with my brother about who's responsibility is it to fix it.

Parent's don't know how to use a tax filing website ‍️ (Tbf, they don't know how to fill out paper forms either).

The first time we've ever touched a real computer with internet access was around 2010, before that, we were in mainland China and we had no internet (either too expensive, or unavailable as a service in the areas we lived in, not sure which, or my parents are just being cheap)

Thank you, autocorrect strikes again.

The PC revolution started with the Apple 2 in 1977. In the early 80's everyone had a Commodore 64. By the mid 80's everyone had a PC. If you were born in the 80's, you were not editing autoexec files in diapers.

Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective,

The problem is their dates are off. Home Computers went mainstream in 1977 with the Apple II.

I for one am happy to be left out of the 'generation war'. It's stupid. In my day blah blah blah- no one cares gramps. Live in the now.

People always get pissy about these generation things. It's not about some people being better than others. There was a period of time where being able to use a computer meant being able to take a tabula rasa machine, install an os using a bunch of disks and a large manual, and figure out how to fix anything without the internet. There was also a period of time where home computers were becoming common. Those two periods overlapped and created a group of non-professional people mostly (MOSTLY) born between 75ish and 85ish that are much better able to use and troubleshoot tech than people born before or after.

But you always end up attracting a bunch of douches saying "I was born in (whenever) and I have a degree in (whatever) and I know more than people blah blah blah." Yeah, I'm not talking about professionals or hardcore hobbyists, I'm taking about regular jerkoffs that had to figure this shit out without specialized education or the internet. It was a unique period that created a group a people different than what came before or after. No judgement, it just is. For some reason certain people take offense to that.

Just pretend you're going senile or 'the new stuff' is just too advanced. If that doesn't work you could always claim to have started a 'tech repair/recycling' side hustle and start billing people.

Ok boomer!

Instead of "the Oregon Trail generation" we should be called the "I read the damn manual" generation.

Back in my day we had weed. We still do, but we did back then too.

I'm not sure what their comment said before they fixed it, but if it was "The Organ Trail", that game exists. It's basically "The Oregon Trail", but with zombies.

In my day you would either get trash weed with seeds all in it, or pay out the ass for 'kind buds'. You can get whole Ounces in Michigan right now for what we had to pay for a quarter in the 90s..... damn it, you got me doing it!

Ageism has been around long time

"In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.

And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say "raise the carriage shafts" or "trim the lamp wick," but people today say "raise it" or "trim it." When they should say, "Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!" they say, "Torches! Let's have some light!" Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor "the Hall of the Imperial Lecture," they shorten it to "the Lecture Hall," a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained."

Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō
1330 - 1332 AD

The oregano trail is lined with spicy meat-a-balls.

You do realize Gen X were the ones who were building their own computers back in the late 80's and all through the 90s and loading them with Windows 3.1 and the original flavors of Linux, on top of fostering the open source world everyone here relies upon? All before Millennials graduated from Jr High.

Unless you were poor and your parents could never afford a PC. We still got to use computers some in school at least. I once volunteered for a 'computer camp' which was basically summer school where they would let you play on the computers.

Yeah, I went back and changed it to a strikethrough to avoid more confusion.

The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.

For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.

Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.

That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.