TottsStrikes me that we have adults trying to cast children's childhoods in terms of what theirs was.
Childhood for today means mobile phones and social media. It doesn't mean playing dress up or jump rope ....
We Are Old
ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ@Geri I’ve had this in my bookmarks for years. Keep going back to the first couple of paragraphs when I feel a grumble about yoof coming on. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/mark-steel/mark-steel-the-youth-of-today-8211-they-just-don-8217-t-show-no-disrespect-1624833.html
@BenCotterill lool Mark Steele is excellent piss taker xx
Ken Milmore@Geri @BenCotterill I'm an ageing GenXer and I was one of many geeky kids that spent a lot of time tinkering with the 8-bit microcomputers that became widely available in the early 1980s. We were warned at the time that computers were going to change the workplace and the BBC even commissioned a computer to help educate people about them, that ended up being widely used in schools. That's all a few generations back, so I think we ought to have got over kids staring at screens by now.
@BenCotterill @kbm0 they were made in Oxford UK.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKthere were multiple factories making them to a single specification (similar to how telephones were built in the 20th century for the Post Office/BT) including Cleartone Wales which now make all the ANPR camera surveillance kit using ARM-based technology..
@BenCotterill @vfrmedia @kbm0 I do not have your technical knowledge but didn't these ARM processors go on to be used in mobile phones?
they did, and still are widely used (although these days ARM doesn't make any actual components, they licence the tech to other companies which make the physical silicon)
@Geri @BenCotterill @vfrmedia Yes. They are so ubiquitous now they end up in lots of other things too, probably toasters and hoovers and stuff.
@BenCotterill @Geri When I left school, the Archimedes had just started to appear but they still ran Arthur not RiscOS.
It's funny that the BBC funded an educational computer and then Acorn spent the proceeds on developing the ARM processor which is now used daily by almost literally everyone in the world. The fact that this doesn't constantly impress people clearly implies that it should be stated more often.
It's funny that the BBC funded an educational computer and then Acorn spent the proceeds on developing the ARM processor which is now used daily by almost literally everyone in the world. The fact that this doesn't constantly impress people clearly implies that it should be stated more often.
@Geri @BenCotterill Sophie Wilson. Also Steve Furber.
@BenCotterill @kbm0 oh happy birthday
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(Amazing to think we spin on this rocky sphere - travelling at 107,000 km per hour round the sun)
@kbm0 @BenCotterill fantastic
There was this male historian who presented Time Commanders who came back a few years later beautifully dressed as an elegant lady - very knowledgeable
I remember when Sophie transitioned, her name simply changed in all the tech/science press and there was 0 drama about it (it might be though that at the time tech folk were *expected* to be eccentric / unusual so no one was as bothered about it)