@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

@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.

@kbm0 @Geri Remember playing hangman in French lessons.
The cool kids in sixth form had the RiscOS Acorns.

@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.