What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I’m having a stroke?
Maybe they’re used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn’t explain the emails I’ve had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics’ messages?
I don’t think that the internet even existed when I was 12 as anything other than dial-up modems and a collection of bulletin board systems. It wasn’t until I was in college that the ‘modern’ internet came online. I didn’t have my first “smart” phone–and I’m using that term very loosely–until I was in my 30s.
I also remember when Windows 3.1 came out, and oh boy, that was neat! Suddenly I didn’t have to program batch files to configure memory in order to play games!