Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@rysiek "William Shatner couldn't find me on Mastodon. This was a problem." oh is it
Roy Howard 🧉@RoyHorace @rysiek far better George Takei than William Shatner in this particular case!
foundseed@mxchara @RoyHorace @rysiek I for one am not glad to have the abusive Trekkie still on this platform. Shatner is an asshole but at least he's not an accused sex pest.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKI think its George Takei's social media team rather than him directly, but one thing I've noticed since 2017 is whilst I was initially one of the oldest on my Fedi group, now there are *many* folk on Fedi easily old enough to be my parents (and I'm 54!) and a lot who aren't from tech backgrounds, which shows the network has become accessible and usable for older people..
Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@vfrmedia @RoyHorace @mxchara @rysiek
I suppose that includes me.
I'm 71 and although I have worked extensively with computers during my career, IT was never part of my core job.
I do have a very early paper published where I'm a joint author on the development of an HTML 'database' which I'm proud to say has now morphed into a fully maintained international web resource.
Does that make me techie? 🤔😁
@MikeFromLFE @RoyHorace @mxchara @rysiek
I think you have tech-related interests and hobbies, but what you put together tends to be considered "shadow IT" in the industry (even though its now more widely used).
I suspect a lot of those aged 50-70+ do now have greater tech skills than younger generations as they *had* to learn a bit more about how the computer works (such as file and directory structures) and until 1990s computers with GUI weren't that commonplace..
@vfrmedia @RoyHorace @mxchara @rysiek
Shadow IT - I like that!
Yes, I could program a Commodore PET computer in Basic and a ZX-something-or-other.
The PET was at work in about 1981 and we used it to print laboratory results onto labels which avoided the errors from our nasty handwriting!
The HTML stuff was on a Mac of some shape and I was given a lot of encouragement by one of our consultant pathologists. In that job I also had to learn how to fettle a big DEC thingy with tape cartridges that ran a medium sized network.
At home I had a Prestel terminal and a home PC that I was happy to get into the insides of. (The first of those was an Amstrad PC1512 that's still in the loft)
So, yes, lots of IT background but none of it •directly• relevant to the 21st century.
@MikeFromLFE @vfrmedia @RoyHorace @rysiek That all sounds very comfy and familiar. Surely there's a place for those of us with a more 20th century-oriented view of technology?
@mxchara @MikeFromLFE @RoyHorace @rysiek
I think that *is* the Fedi? There's literally loads of people on here who fondly remember (or even still use) 20th century tech (only a few weeks ago I tested a new VOIP telephone system by connecting a British Telecom 8746 dial telephone to it (via an ATA) to make a test call..
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦yes. you’re an OG.