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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

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[–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xennial here: Come back and talk to me after spending a good chunk of your childhood editing config.sys and autoexec.bat, loading drivers and freeing up conventional memory.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not old enough for most early computers but I do remember changing an IRQ channel once.

[–] theluckyone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My parents got me a subscription to Family Computing. Spent way too many hours typing in the lines of BASIC code contained in each one, debugging my mistakes, and playing them. There's a joke in there somewhere...