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.