Typing was taught to boomers and genx first dude. In fact, as a liminal i'd readily say i've had an arseload more typing "teaching" than you have - both keyboard and typewriter- and i'll wager my mother in the age of typewriters had even more.

[–] walktheplank@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I took typing class in high school. On a typewriter. Gen X. My mom was a trained stenographer in her younger years.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

X here as well. But 78. So i got to take advantage of the digital age without having my teen stupidity immortalised on it. Truly the sweetest of spots.

[–] walktheplank@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I am a bit older but similar. My dad was an early adopter of computers even though he had zero idea how to use one.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What’s up Oregon Trail Generation bros!? We really did have a unique environment for growing up.

Childhood with no social media and basically no internet, wandering or biking around the neighborhood, finding porn in the woods… then computers and video games kept becoming more of a thing as we grew, and for many of us starting college meant the jump from connecting to the internet with a modem at kilobit speeds to connecting straight to Ethernet at megabit speeds.

And even though internet communication was fairly popular in our early adulthood, we mostly made it out of college, and maybe even dating if we were lucky, before social media took hold.

And now in middle age we still somehow get to be the “computer people” even though all these bright young minds came after us. But at least those of us with gigabit internet and OLED screens can really appreciate them.

Meeeeeemorieeees

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

The only generation that had to learn how to record on VHS and burn a DVD. Madness.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think you're missing my point. I'm not saying nobody ever was taught to type in earlier generations. I'm saying that millennials were the first where there was a widespread recognition that typing was a valuable skill EVERYONE needed to learn, regardless of your future life path. Of course there were people getting trained to type ever since the first keyboards were invented. I mean, there were people as long ago as the 1870s learning to type on the earliest mass-produced typewriters.

I'm talking about a generational cohort as a whole, not individual select cases.

And I'm also talking about the difference between typing being a skill you learn for school/work vs something you use for socialization.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

No, i'm not missing your point.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

The typewriter generation are probably faster overall because they don't make mistakes.

Being able to delete any error makes you far less careful.

Sure, modern programs will autocorrect for you, but autocorrect to what?

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, it was funny teaching my grandmother to use a computer... She couldn't use a mouse, but she typed really fast!

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

Microsoft word fixing tiny mistakes like reversed i and e or other very common errors has made me an absurdly lazy typist.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

I can type fast, but I have to hit the backspace really often.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago

Indeed. I joke that I can type 100 words per minute but that 32 of them are backspace.