alt Hacker NewsThe problem was our parents never got this course, and sadly, neither did the generations after us. "Computer" Class for me (born early 90s) was keyboarding -> how to find information online -> how to evaluate and rate itegrity of internet sources -> Microsoft Office.
The kids who stopped getting that are probabaly old enough for a bachelors degree now. Today, the schools mostly just hand them an iPad and a Google Workspace sign-in and pretend everything is fine.
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globular-toast • yesterday at 5:49 AM
They did. Our local libraries in the 90s had internet courses you could take that would teach you how to browse and search. But this stopped for everyone around 2000 when suddenly knowing how to use any piece of software was considered assumed knowledge for some reason.
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> how to find information online -> how to evaluate and rate itegrity of internet sources
You were lucky to have that part. Mine, as I remember, was just Microsoft Office throughout.