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  • Mistymisty@digipres.club
    Nov 14, 2026, 9:12 PM

    Fascinating social dynamic I’ve been seeing lately: a bunch of younger people have been getting into retro computing, which is very cool! But then they end up in social spaces involving a variety of age ranges and confidently explain how things were back in the day to people who were there - incorrectly.

    I totally get how it happens; a younger person is used to being surrounded by people their age who don’t know this stuff and feel the need to explain it. Just gets weird in mixed-age groups.

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  • Mistymisty@digipres.club
    Nov 14, 2026, 9:17 PM

    I also remember being excited about things at a younger age and expressing that via explaining them, and also being in mixed-age group where I almost certainly was explaining them to people who absolutely didn’t need it. So I completely understand how this comes about, haha.

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  • Mistymisty@digipres.club
    Nov 14, 2026, 9:24 PM

    Anyway, I'm glad to see this is a hobby that has something to offer to people outside the age range of people who grew up with it or grew up immediately following it. Easy to worry it's the kind of hobby that dies with its cohort, but that's not what's happening here. And younger people have interesting new perspectives that previous generations of retrocomputing fans won't always bring to it.

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