The hard part about rebooting society after the Interregnum was a whole generation had no exposure to computers. The first time around we bootstrapped our muscle memory with skeuomorphisms and interaction affordances. I think i have spent a thousand hours teaching youngsters how to resize windows and do swipe gestures on the preserved machines from Before. And there just aren’t enough coders to retrofit user-friendliness to old systems, let alone build new.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition

@Unixbigot
Not far off. I have to spend more time than you'd expect teaching "Touchscreen Kids" how to use a mouse so they can do CAD. Some even prefer to use #OpenSCAD than bother to learn how to mouse!
@vik ‘taint a darn thing wrong with OpenSCAD, young man.