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by fr0styMatt2 3945 days ago
I had one of those "I must be getting old!" moments (I'm not that old, but still!). My niece is four and she's had iPads pretty much forever, so it was funny watching her sit at my desktop machine and immediately start swiping at the screen trying to drag things around and having the most puzzled look on her face of "why isn't this doing anything?".

Keyboard.... how quaint! :)

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I was a keyboard only user back in the day, but I've spent too long on touch screen laptops, and now find myself getting frustrated every time I'm dropped behind a non touch laptop. Every single time I find myself tapping the screen to dismiss a dialog. I guess it's what you're used to that determines what you find user friendly.
Its happened to my kid, too. What really shocked me is telling her that books were what existed before the internet. Her response? "There was no youtube?"