[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Sat Jun 17 18:20:46 UTC 2006

On 6/17/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> AOL as a source of "oldbies"?  The *serious* oldbie crowd regards
> them as the biggest source of clueless newbies!  And Windows
> (whatever version) just brought more crowds of people too computer
> illiterate to handle a command line interface.
>
> No, the *real* oldbies were the ones who used computers without a
> wimpy graphical interface... maybe a printing terminal using a modem
> switchable between 110 baud and the "high-speed" 300 (like they had
> at the high school I attended in the early '80s)... or even punch
> cards (like they also used when I was in high school, taking a class
> in Fortran).

But I was specifically speaking of newbies within Wikipedia. If I
recall correctly, WP wasn't around in the '80s.  And from what I
understand, if you are still using your computer from the '80's to
access WP, you are a miracle worker.  ;-)  --LV