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My grandmother was the opposite. She was one of the first in the family to get a Microwave, cable TV, etc. She was using email in the late 90's. Passed in 2003 RIP Grandma.

My mum is 83. She does so much online, all her shopping, grocery and otherwise,banking, email,booking train tickets, holidays away, ordering the wood for her fire burning stove. You name it, she can do it. When she was growing up, her home didn’t even have electricity or running water. So she’s really taken well to modern technology.

My great-grandfather apparently hated cars and insisted they'd never replace horses.

"he would have us act out game of thrones before buying an HBO subscription" Hol up

My momma didn't want anything to do with computers. One day, I put my laptop in her lap with a Skype video call to her grand daughter (my daughter) who had moved to Europe years earlier. I had never seen her so thrilled or smiling so brightly. They had a long and happy conversation. She still didn't want a computer herself, never got one.

My last supervisor in the Air Force was totally a non user. However, he HAD to learn E-mail. This was where my career took a strange turn. He recognized the fact that I was the only member of his crew that could actually type at a good rate. So every morning we would spend the first several hours of the day doing his job. I would sit at the computer, read him the emails, And he would respond and I would type them up edit them up and send them out. He actually got an improvement on his evaluations the last four years I was there because his writing skills improved so much. we retired at roughly the same time so the higher-ups never caught on the ruse or if they did I don’t think they cared. Just made my last few years in the military good bit easier because I became a secretary not a maintainer.

"Get a horse!" -taunt levied at early automobile owners

My grandfather had a story about trying to convince his dad to invest in tractors for their farm. This was probably in the late 1940s and his dad was still using horses for farm work. It was a bit of a challenge it sounded to convince the guy to upgrade.

According to my Mom, my Great Grandma would shush the kids while a TV program was on because she thought the people on screen could hear you. 😂

I'm of an older generation. I am actually seeking to learn more about technology. I used to be afraid of it, or thought it was too confusing and hard to use but have realized it ready improves life. I am now recently have allowed it to make my life easier. Most people of my generation think it is too hard to use. I WAS one of them, but broke free.

I have a really good story for this one that my grandpa who is 85 years old told me. Now this is not reddit, but I thought I'd share it anyway. Back in the 1920s, his great uncle owned the very first radio in their small German village. Since they weren't connected to the national grid back then, this radio had to be powerd by a car battery. When the battery ran out, it had to be taken to the next bigger town about 7 kilometers away, to be recharged. My grandpas' mother was told by a relative or neighbour, that her uncle had this newfangled machine "with which one could hear the bells of the cathedral in Cologne" all the way to their tiny village. Her answer was along the lines of: "What is the world comming to!"

I still occasionally hear about how "reading is bad for your eyes" from my older students... as they sit a few inches from their computer screen.

My neighbour did the thing where he'd write the price, shop and expiring date on food and other stuff. He was born in the late 30s in Germany, meaning he lived through WWII and the aftermath with little to no food. When something was on sale he'd sent me to buy a bunch of it. We cleared his apartement last year (he's still alive at 85, just in a retirement home because he's legally blind) and found so many multiples of everything. Like 12 big jars of instant coffee, all with the price and dates. He used to drink one small cup in the morning and one in the evening. His stash would've lasted way into his 100s :D I still have food from his place because it was so much.

I'm 71. I started repairing computers over 40 years ago, and TVs over 57 years ago. I was working in TV shop at 13. I get tired of kids telling me, You're too old to know anything about electronics, when I spent a lifetime helping get it to it's current state of the art.. A young idiot salesman tried to tell me that Windows 95 was the first version and that it was introduced for the first IBM computer. Of course, he was a self proclaimed genius. I told him the facts about the first PC, and Windows 1.0 that ran on that first computer. but he wouldn't listen.

Luddites come in ALL ages. Our sixth-grade class beta-tested the Plato Learning System on the Illiac at the university through terminals in our school that were connected by cable to the big computer. In 1968. When we moved to Columbus a year later, I felt like I was back in the days of the McGuffey Reader when most of my classmates didn't even know what a computer was. Nowadays I make fun of kids who don't know how to use a typewriter and all they know about computers is their phone. Steve Jobs said he wanted to make "the computer for the rest of us" when he introduced the Macintosh. He actually didn't succeed until he introduced the iPhone.

Stories like these make me appreciate my dad. He was the one who was most technologically literate in my house growing up, sometimes he still teaches ME stuff like that.

My dad refuses to have a cell phone or computer , he doesn’t even have a television.

My jr high/high school thought that typing was a niche skill that not everyone had to learn unless you were going to work as a secretary or something. Also, I was raised in the "all your papers are going to have to be in cursive when you get older!" era. By the time I reached college, everything was expected to be typed on a computer or word processor.

OK, my parents grew up with outhouses, kerosene lamps, no electricity, no phone, and it was a big thing to have a well pump in the kitchen (that was the extent of "indoor plumbing" in corn country during the great depression. So, the "old people" I knew as a kid were born in the 19th century, mostly after the Civil War.

My aunt convinced my grandmother to get into texting on cell phones several years back. This was around the time I was in a group home. After a while, my grandmother gave up on texting because she's as old school as can be.

@1:15 to be fair I still hate leaving messages. Granted I'm autistic and despite my job (attorney) requiring it I hate phones too. Never call what could be an email never email what could be a text/message

I had a teacher that thought pipetting with a balloon was unnessasery. Pipetting is pulling a liquid up a glass tube. Before there were balloons that you could use to pull up the liquid, you had to use your mouth. So working on a lab, you would pull up dangerous and poisenous liquids by sucking it up and hoping you stopped before it reaches your mouth. He even tried to convince us to not use balloons ourselves. He showed us how to do it, pulling up water, and inmediately got water in his mouth. For obvious safety reasons, you are not allowed to pipet by mouth nowadays, but some of the older folks still do it.

My grandfather refused to have factory air in his car for what reason no clue. The only reason he owned a care with A/C was because you could not buy a car without A/C as a standard feature of a base model. Another A/C story, after my parents death a couple of years ago we sold their rental house and made the mistake of having an A/C unit installed before putting it on the market. The buyers delayed closing by months because they demanded that the A/C unit to be moved to being on the roof from being the ground. Our agent kept trying to explain that putting the A/C unit on the roof was not an option for two reasons the first is the roof was not designed to support the weight of an A/C unit and would have to be reinforced and second the heating ducting was not designed to have the A/C on the roof. We where in the process of backing out of the deal when they stopped being stupid. If we sold the house which was from the 1940s without an A/C unit it would of saved us tens of thousands of having a A/C unit installed in a house that was not designed to have A/C.

I'm 12, my dad is 65 and my mom is 60. The worst thing about having old parents is that they are likely going to die while I'm still in my 20s. My dad's dad died in 2009 at 82 from having a heart attack and choking at the same time while my dad's mom died in 2017 from pneumonia at 83. Both my mom's parents are still alive and I only met my dad's mom once when I was 2 and don't even remember it. My mom's dad is 85 (almost 86) while my mom's mom is 83 (almost 84).

Remember when caller ID was an extra service with a separate box and then scream came out

From what I've heard my Great Great Grandmother didn't like phones and when her kids bought one for her she'd just glare at it angrily whenever it would ring. My Great Grandmother didn't trust anyone else with the TV remote in case they "broke it", coming over and setting up her new TV? Fine. Using the TV remote? Too dangerous!

My grandgrandma was afraid of microwaves and refused to buy one. She avoided them if she visited friends and would tell kids to leave the room if a microwave was turned on. She thought they emit radiation and give you cancer. Sadly this myth is still very common. By the way, grangrama died of cancer.

Ive used a French Curve. I was taught how to Draft by hand before I was allowed to take CAD classes. Both are really fun and i agree you MUST be taught drafting before CAD.

Not so much computers but in the 2000s my Grandmother was often given the latest technology for Christmas and didn't take to them all in the long term. She would use the DVD player and Freeview box she received (every UK would use or need one now but this was before TV signals went exclusively digital so it was like a free cable service (and would lose remotes constantly.)) But she only used her only cellphone until the the battery ran out and stuck to using only the landline before she passed.

My grand mother has had a mobile phone for almost a decade but just last month she somehow acsidentaly called the fire department in the Nederland she doesn't speak a word of dutch or English she doesn't even know the Latin alphabet.

I guess I’m a boomer at 44 because I refuse to stream music. I like just buying it and listening to exactly what I want. Yet i do stream tv on fact I don’t even have cable.

My mother is the opposite, she enbraces new technology and is eager to learn how to use it. I'm the one who hates computers. I see it as a necessary evil. I have a rotory phone, I drive old fixable cars (my daily is 38 years old), I have a smart phone and only got used to using it on the last few years, I like using cash, hate cards and online shopping. I hate computers.

My mom said her grandmother taped rainbow-colored cellophane over her black and white TV when color was becoming widespread because "that was good enough for her".

At 67, I'm pretty much the top end of reddit user age. I took my only two formal computer courses (BASIC and FORTRAN) in 1975 and 1976. As a Creative Writing major, I was an oddity in the classes. Loads of music majors, but not a lot of language people. I picked up SPSS in grad school, started fiddling with PCs in 1983, first encountered the internet in 1989 (a live BBS at San Diego ComicCon for vendors and hospitality suites), and here I am today. I'd say my great-grandmother would have been an example of someone who distrusted tech. She fed a wood-fired cookstove the size of a baby elephant whenever she put up pickles, made jellies and preserves, and canned her veggies. She swore by her cast-iron behemoth for food processing purposes, and she may well have been right. I've never had better Damson preserves than hers, and as a Southern lady, I've sampled my fair share of 'em. Grandmama had to stop "puttin' up" after her first stroke.

As soon as he said "rad Sunbeam Radiant toaster," I immediately said "Technology Connections." That was immediately followed by "I see you've also watched that Technology Connections video."

Even my boomer parents aren't THIS intense. At worst, my grandpa is still using a 90s flip phone.

My uncle refuses to pay bills and rent online. And he will only go to one store to pay his light bill. Old folks are very paranoid about having their funds tampered with. I used to joke that my granddad had a can of money in the backyard in case the clan tried to steal it.

My dad’s great grandmother refused to use roundabouts properly. If she needed to go left, she would just turn left instead of going around the roundabout.

Stocking up on food a little more is not a bad habit, even today.

I'd be called a Luddite if I weren't so enthralled by being able to duck out of what I'm reading/watching to Google up a reference I didn't understand. But I don't use every feature on my cell or pad or laptop or car. They might be fun, but I only use my electronics for simple things, so why clog my brain with stuff I don't need to know? I have enough curiosity for four people and, for that, the internet is the best research library on earth.

6:03 I'm from germany and I do like to put ice in my drinks in summer. But I don't usually put ice in water but more often in lemonade or juice.

So, the anti-barcode guy is related to the founder of Hobby Lobby

I graduated high school in 2000. Our computer science class was taught on Apple IIe’s, a computer that came out just after I was born. We got a computer lab my sophomore year. It was still in the boxes for nearly two more years. When I graduated, it still wasn’t set up, because “computers were just a passing fad”. 🤦‍♂️

I live in Japan, and we still have faxes coming in every day.

"Well, if people can and sometime do access prons with computers, we need to just totally ban them!" Yup, pretty normal day in Florida...

10:48 LMAO That is a wise man.

All cathode ray tubes emit x-rays. The myth is that they ever emitted dangerous levels of them. Back when TV was 'the small screen', to differentiate TV from movies 'The Big Screen', different techniques were used in movies and in TV. TV was expected to be viewed from across the room, despite having a diagonal screen measurement 26" being considered huge. You can see it in the differences between the original "Star Trek" and Star Trek: The Next Generation". Almost none of the make-up effects used in ST:TNG would show up, so klingons and romulans had different foundation make-up and a few exaggerated features that could be seen by the people on the couch.

12:49 I think this OP is old enough to be a grandparent themselves if their grandfather categorically distrusted BOOKS.

My parents switched from Black and White TVs when my grandparents came back from a tour of Europe, and saw that West Germany had color television while East Germany was all black and white. They got Cable when I was born because dad had to hold me and pace deep into the night, and nothing was on basic

Not a boomer but my dad is, so my grandparents were part of the silent generation, grandfathers having fought in WW2. Apparently boomers were seen as pretty similar to millennials back in the day by the silent and great generations.

My dad refuses to use his debit card, credit cards, or anything that involves cards. Apparently he just doesn't know how to use it and doesn't want to hurt his pride and ask for help in knowing how to use one, he has been using cash for as long as I can remember, despite having a bank account, and several credit cards. I do not know why he has so many credit cards, he has about 10 of them from different places but rarely or if ever uses them.

My dad doesn't know how to use an email despite having one for 20+ years, not sure why or how but the entire family tried to teach but unable to because to him he just doesnt understand how to. This is the same wifh debit and credit cards, he has a few credit cards and is always signing one up for him and has a debit card for 30+ years and just doesnt know how to use it at ATMS, or how to use it at checkout when the option to use debit card is availavme

My Mom didn't like computers. Wasn't cause she was afraid of them or anything she just thought she was too old to learn how to use them. My Family would mostly stay with the times though.

I'm feeling old. Or like living in the past. Not only uses the supermarket I used to manage until 2016 faxes daily but my Uni in 2019 as well. And no AC in sight anywhere, even with temperatures above 100°F and 100% humidity in summer. Who wants to guess my country?

4:30 wrong. A car is a "machina", but that is a general term that applies not only to cars but to any other machines as well. It is автомобиль (avtomabil).

Okay look, the reason why we germans dont put ice into our water is simply because ice is a tad bit more expensive to make (or buy) than to just refill a bottle with cold tap water. There is no deeper reason about it. Its simply too costly to make water more "fancy" though you can totally ask for ice in your water if you so desire. Places like McD will add ice if you put it into your order. That being said, McD also just mixes up thier Soft-Drinks on the spot. They be doing what many people are doing. Buy the syrup and get a water carbonator. Carbonate the water and add the syrup. Mix a little and done! Each resturant has slight different mixing ratios with most KFCs having the best ratios and the more older slightly grimy McDs and BKs having the worst where BK sometimes just sells you colored water. Thats carbonated. Its awful.

my dad (who was born dirt poor in the mid 50s) was a lot like me in that while he was more than willing to adapt to new technology but also didn't bother with it when it wasn't an upgrade and/or wasn't worth the effort, I still am using a samsung galaxy note 9 in 2024 and have no plans of replacing it, like 2/3 of my steam library is over a decade old and only a few games (I have a few hundred) are less than a year old, and no it ain't piracy with steam, I have never pirated a steam game that I didn't already own anyway (yes I have pirated a few games like KSP and Stardew valley but only so I could access older versions), I still play tom clancy's the division in 2024, yes the game's sequel is getting old yet I still play the first game, yes I am one of the most skilled people at div 1 out there, like probably top 250 global. I do have a story from him, this might get me in trouble but just know I don't mean anything by this, I am merely sharing information. so one time he was in a bar and saw this "old timer", this is in the 70s, this person was old then, well he sits down at a different table, he then hears the old timer say "I want some cock" confused as all hell my dad says something along the lines of "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY!!?!!" and then the old man explains he wanted some tits and he realized that old timer has no idea he meant "I want some pu*sy" so yeah, he then explains this to the old timer, he never saw him again but also my dad didn't drink much and might not have even been a local (I am not sure where this took place and my dad has lived in like 6 different states and used to travel a lot).

I have a friend who's in his fifties and he doesn't like ice and a soda cuz I guess it was too expensive when he was growing up cancel doesn't like to eat past 4:00 p.m. I think he has a lot of trauma to work through

Unless it is some weird Mormon offshoot that the Latter Day Saints (mainstream Mormons) disavow, Later Day Saints are socially conservative, but are open to new technology and resistance to it is on an individual basis.

My self. I refuse to believe that VR is anything but a failing fad.

Wait... People don't double space after a period anymore?? Since when do we let people who have to look at the keyboard when they type with two fingers make new rules?

I always find it fascinating how some American schools spend their money. I remember a case where the football team of a school in a completely insignificant town had the best equipment and a professional coach and a lot of other expensive shit. They still never won a game, on the one hand because they used the money for the new sports hall for the football team and on the other hand because they promised parents of rich kids that their child was guaranteed to get on the football team. So you have an overpaid football team with people who don't look like they've ever played sports before. At the same time, I would like to note things like the chess club, a science club, and the debating club, which never received any funding, won regional competitions. how do you remember the football team just because everyone makes jokes about it. that the football team couldn't win a game even if they played Great Britain at teatime

I already have one, and I'm only 23. AI voice assistants. I have hands, and my phone (or laptop) is probably already in them, so why the hell would I talk to the damn thing?

I feel like the Amish started out similarly to these people

i will probably be the opposite always staying up to date on tech, given the price tag of course

I dunno there's some wisdom in these

9:09

Oddly enough the comment about cholesterol is correct. The way we think of cholesterol is entirely wrong, go look it up! It was all a scam! XD

Niss-an

I needa stop

So basically, all I'm reading here are comments from Luddites or people who evolved with the times.

Aimish

You're 30 something and don't know what a fax is? Yeah...maybe not ignorant, but they were still used even in the late 90's / early 2000's so I'm surprised you haven't seen one.

Why are xmen using guns?

Datsun and Nissan are reversed in order. Everything else is correct

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12:14 -- I know you're not from the US, but I thought you'd want to know -- the word is pronounced "AH-mish." Trust me -- I lived in Amish Country for two years, and it was carefully drilled into us _never_ to mispronounce it.

When I was little, in the early 1960s, I used to laugh (inside) at the old guys who called a refrigerator an icebox. Now, here I am saying tinfoil. It hasn't been made out of tin for decades. 🧓