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TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Carl@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also a millennial. RuneScape had me breezing through my typing classes. I was typing 80 WPM by second grade.

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  • tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same! This was before the Grand Exchange, too, so you had to type the same thing over and over just to be seen enough to buy or sell something in the Varrock square. I remember using @ran@ quite frequently lol

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    • Carl@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup, spamming “flash1:wave2:Selling lobs 200ea” in Varrock’s bank is still engrained in my muscle memory, over 20 years later.

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• pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also a millennial. Are younger people not learning to type in school?

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  • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Generations that came after us are assumed to be “digital natives” and aren’t taught typing, file systems, how to assess if sources are trustworthy… They’re just assumed to (somehow) know all of this naturally.

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    • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I knew that young people don’t seem to know how to use computers but it didn’t occur to me that even touch typing would be done away with. They all have had Chromebooks forced into their classrooms, they can’t put Mavis Beacon on there? Not being taught to type really explains why many seem to struggle with computers generally, though. Everything is so much more difficult when it’s so slow.

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