Folks are gonna need to stop with the "grandma on the computer" to mean uneducated users tropes soon.

I was writing and debugging code to a cassette tape drive before a lot of folks who say this nonsense were even born. I have built my own computers from the case up. My first computer class in college was COBOL. I hard coded websites before there were any tools to do it with.

I'm 52.

What I find is that most of the yunguns have no fucking idea how they work and couldn't find a command line if their life depended on it.

So, yanow, maybe stop.

@TheJen

Thank you for sharing this on Mother's Day. I have always known that "make it so that your wife/mother/grandmother could understand it" was misogynistic bullshit, because my own mother wrote mainframe software.

http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.html

But for those men who still don't get it, maybe they need it explained in a way that is inclusive of their level of maturity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing