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IBM had big, room sized machines. Try putting one of them on your desk. It is the microcomputer, the one sitting on your desk, that changed your immediate world.
Wozniak, along with Jobs, "invented" the first mass produced microcomputer and its concomitant technology/OS in the late 70s.
IBM did not come out with their micro until the early 80s.
Don't need to read the history of the microcomputer - I lived it.
I understand where you're getting at, but today's youth have not invented anything notable to my recollection. I think the invention of Google would be the last notable one, but since it isn't a "hard" invention (meaning it's not an actual gadget and it's not revolutionary since search engines have been around for years before Google's inception), it pales in comparison to the cell phone and walking on the moon.
Today's "inventions" include facebook and twitter. Not exactly innovative by any means, IMHO.
I think you are being very cavalier about something you probably know very little about.
When was the last time you tried to create a mega website? Or even conceived of an innovation such as a social networking website??
The post does not suggest that older people invented things. It is saying that people in their generation were responsible for many of the things that you take for granted today. And before us people like Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and many others started the revolution towards the modern age. And I admire the young people who go out and continue the tradition. Remember that science and technology stands on the shoulders of giants of previous generations.
The post does not suggest that older people invented things. It is saying that people in their generation were responsible for many of the things that you take for granted today. And before us people like Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and many others started the revolution towards the modern age. And I admire the young people who go out and continue the tradition. Remember that science and technology stands on the shoulders of giants of previous generations.
I think you are being very cavalier about something you probably know very little about.
When was the last time you tried to create a mega website? Or even conceived of an innovation such as a social networking website??
"When was the last time you tried to create a mega website?"
That's nothing more than taking existing software and building a site. I understand one has to learn the software but it's not the same as programing the software.
But the OP was about todays youth, not the youth of the 70's.. Are you keeping up with the OP?
My comment was about MY original post:
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Do you suppose that back in the early 80s there was some old fart some where complaining about the "youth of today" not "inventing anything notable" while at the same time Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs - all the youth of that day - were inventing the little machine that changed the world??
Do you not see that complaining about young people is a sure sign that you are an old people??
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