[iuygthn]

>They are probably older than 40

Yep it's tough being over 40 - we don't really understand this web stuff. I mean we invented it all 20years ago, we wrote the first browsers and the first servers, we wrote the first pages - but since we don't spend all our time following #britney or end every sentence with LOL we obviously can't understand it.

Now you kids get off my (virtual) lawn

[notJim]

You're right, that was an ageist thing to say, and I'm sorry I said it. My point is just as valid without it.

[iuygthn]

You're exactly right though ;-)

As a 40+ engineer I would have considered REST urls but facebook would never have occurred to me.

[ams6110]

I'm over 40, and admit that I don't "get" facebook. I use email, IM, SMS with my friends but I don't even have a facebook account

[trafficlight]

Don't worry, you aren't missing anything of value. Maybe some inane babble, but you can just turn on CNN or Fox News if you're need a quick fix.

[huxley]

Luxury.

We used to have to gopher our info out of Gopherspace at six o'clock in the morning! And our modems worked if we were lucky! There were no youtubes or graphics, our search engines were named after Archie characters, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

But you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you.

[iuygthn]

Of course we 'ad it tough

We used to have whistle Hayes codes up t'phone line ourselves - after making our own modem leads out 'o back to back NULL modems.

Ones and Zeros - you were lucky. We only had zeros and we had to catch wild ones and skin em ourselves.