I’m a bit older than the minimum age to be a millenial and have defragmented many drives. when I was like 6 but I still remember watching that stupid coloured blocks diagram for hours for some 20mb or something
I’m a younger millennial but I know how to do that. Culturally I relate way more with gen z than I do millennials, but man do I feel immense pain when I have to explain to people younger than me how to use technology. I had to explain to one of my younger coworkers how to navigate between folders and different hard drives within Windows the other day and it was more difficult than teaching my mom how to use a smart phone when they first came out. Too young to have had a MySpace but old enough to be everyone’s personal IT guy.
It did back in the windows 95 through XP days. I 'member when Windows would bog the fuck down if it was too fragmented. I’m pretty sure it was fat32 that was the problem.
I’m in there, I feel closer to Millenial than Gen X but not quite full Millenial. Think it’s also referred to as the Oregon Trail generation, due to it being a common early PC game to play in class when they taught us computers. I still remember first seeing the trash bin on a Macintosh grow fat when it had items in it, I thought it was awesome, years before Windows.
There are a bunch of us who had a more GenX life than our birth year would suggest. The internet wasn’t a source of study and paper writing until college. We were allowed to stay home alone after school far younger than is legal today. In the summer we were kicked out of the house and roamind the town on your bike with no method of contact was normal.
If you saw kids in an 80s movie our lives matched that more than a 90s movie.
"Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction"
never heard of these.
We are the elder millenials, who know how to defragment a hard drive.
I’m a bit older than the minimum age to be a millenial and have defragmented many drives. when I was like 6 but I still remember watching that stupid coloured blocks diagram for hours for some 20mb or something
A little older than minimum? Doesn’t that make you the young side of smack dab in the exact category? xP
Those were the days
We who have set dip switches or jumpers for an irq address on a sound blaster.
I’m not even gen X and I’ve done this! On multiple computers. … Oh god, I’m a nerd, aren’t I?
Yep.
We could whistle into a phone and get a modem to try to talk to us.
What a phreak!
I’m a younger millennial but I know how to do that. Culturally I relate way more with gen z than I do millennials, but man do I feel immense pain when I have to explain to people younger than me how to use technology. I had to explain to one of my younger coworkers how to navigate between folders and different hard drives within Windows the other day and it was more difficult than teaching my mom how to use a smart phone when they first came out. Too young to have had a MySpace but old enough to be everyone’s personal IT guy.
You must be 28
I’m guessing 36
The proto-millennials, if you will.
The deep magic
By hand. 😤
Uphill, both ways
At 2400 baud and then someone picks up the phone
Defragmenting takes way too long, especially with a > 6tb drive: just buy a new one and copy the data to it then wipe the old one.
It doesn’t do anything you know it just burns out the hard drive.
It did back in the windows 95 through XP days. I 'member when Windows would bog the fuck down if it was too fragmented. I’m pretty sure it was fat32 that was the problem.
Oh yeah, defrag me harder daddy
I’m in there, I feel closer to Millenial than Gen X but not quite full Millenial. Think it’s also referred to as the Oregon Trail generation, due to it being a common early PC game to play in class when they taught us computers. I still remember first seeing the trash bin on a Macintosh grow fat when it had items in it, I thought it was awesome, years before Windows.
Yes but do you remember The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary and the creepy dolls?
I thought we were the Oregon Trail generation. (‘81)
TIL I’m a “Xelennial”
They were called Gen Y back in the early 90s
There are a bunch of us who had a more GenX life than our birth year would suggest. The internet wasn’t a source of study and paper writing until college. We were allowed to stay home alone after school far younger than is legal today. In the summer we were kicked out of the house and roamind the town on your bike with no method of contact was normal.
If you saw kids in an 80s movie our lives matched that more than a 90s movie.