The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

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.

  • theluckyone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    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.worksEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

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

      • theluckyone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months 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…