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This was by design.

The more control corporations have the more easily controlled are the consumers.

I’m watching web browsers discouraging users from entering literal web addies so that soon there will be 100% dependence on their search engines and very cool little known bizarre websites like this will be impossible to find: http://dogsdays.com/read.html

Am zoomer, am 18

It always depends on where you take the definition from, some say it started in 1996, same say it started in 2004. Saying that it probably depends on the country you reside in as well.

Smartphones have made tech interaction ridiculously accessible and also into a locked down blackbox kinda thing at the same time. Consider how everything is a website now, and yet many people don't know how to use a browser, as they install hundreds of apps instead.

onward kinda has this, but practically everyone forgot magic

It's also basically how the Adeptus Mechanicus operates in 40k. Lots of worshipping the old tech, preserving it, and there's some limited giant machines that they could never fathom rebuilding or even fixing so they're very protective of them

In sci-fi proper that is also a plot point of Isaac Asimov's The Foundation. The giant galactic empire collapses and all the scholars are holed up on a planet to preserve knowledge. They then go out to other planets and give technology, but everyone is so ignorant that it seems like magic and the scholars kind of roll with it.

I feel like the Empire in warhammer 40k operates on a similar premise, all there machune rituals and what not are just maintanance, but nobody understands the machines, so they'll just reenact what was shown to someone eons ago or what have seemed to cause some effect.

just like me blowing into NES Cartridges when a game would not start :D.

"So, like, you can just conjure up a gun out of a brick?"

"It's more complicated than that! You have to do a bunch of math and science and draw a circle and stuff"

"Okay, sure... but then you can just create a gun. Or you can science water into wine. Or any dirty liquid into clean water. Or medicine? You can turn dust into medicine. Using nothing but your brain and a stick of chalk."

"Well, yes! Isn't it cool!"

"And what did you say your title was, again?"

"The big fucking gun alchemist, why?"

Discworld's magic system is like this. The wizards often don't know why certain parts of a ritual or spell are in place, but it works so they don't touch it

Ive seen at least one other anime that was like that, cant remember the title but the magic system was surprisingly fleshed out for a 12 episode anime

Edit: Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

Eh, there's a curiosity aspect as well. I can't do work on my car, but I can change the oil, tires, brake pads, and such. I understand the principle of how an IC engine works. I'm a computer programmer but I think it's because I'm a curious person who likes knowing how things work, and computers offer more chances to learn than anything else on the planet.

It isn't ignorance that has ever bothered me about boomers, zoomers, or anyone else. It's that 99% of people you meet are fundamentally incurious. They don't care how things work, they don't care if they could work differently.

That's how i think of it. My dad can tear a car apart. I can't wrap my head around changing the brakes. But i know how computers work, because i grew up needing to know.

Reminds me about that line in World War Z (Max Brooks)

(Paraphrasing) "Some survivors were frustrated with the assignments they were given. A lady who was a former TV exec was furious that she was assigned to a janitorial unit, led by someone who's lifetime salary she made in a month!

For people like her, you didn't have to worry about fixing a plumbing issue or cleaning your home. She just hired someone else to do it, because she made money talking on the phone, and the more people she hired, the more time she could spend talking on the phone. After the Great Panic, nobody bothered to use phones anymore. There were no TV contracts that needed to be made, but there were toilets that needed work, and floors to clean. In a strange way, the blue collar workers outranked their "superiors" in importance to the community. We needed mechanics, engineers, HVAC workers, plumbers. We had those people of course, but there was never enough of them."

I don't think it was even an emulator, it was probably the official Nintendo port called 'Super Mario Run'.

You can just download one from the App Store as of a year or so ago.

A lot of emulators are just apps, but the iso itself is a bigger mystery. My guess is an older sibling or even parent helped set that up. Nobody in their right mind would bundle a licensed game with an emulator on the app store.