On 6/17/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
AOL as a source of "oldbies"? The *serious* oldbie crowd regards them as the biggest source of clueless newbies! And Windows (whatever version) just brought more crowds of people too computer illiterate to handle a command line interface.
No, the *real* oldbies were the ones who used computers without a wimpy graphical interface... maybe a printing terminal using a modem switchable between 110 baud and the "high-speed" 300 (like they had at the high school I attended in the early '80s)... or even punch cards (like they also used when I was in high school, taking a class in Fortran).
But I was specifically speaking of newbies within Wikipedia. If I recall correctly, WP wasn't around in the '80s. And from what I understand, if you are still using your computer from the '80's to access WP, you are a miracle worker. ;-) --LV