| I feel like a big part of the problem is that back when computers were newly introduced to the world at large, there were actually good tutorials on how to use them. Consider the Windows 3.1 interactive mouse tutorial/Windows tutorial. [0] This was designed for an age where both mice and Windows were relatively new and people didn't know how to use them, and it's one of the better designed tutorials out there, I think, allowing the user to interact with the tutorial and instantly see the results of their actions. However, nowadays if you try to look up a tutorial on how to use a mouse, you're probably not going to find very much. The best I could find was hosted at gcfglobal.org [1], and explained the concepts and how to do things with a mouse, and has relevant interactive parts, but requires knowledge of how to scroll the page (which it does tell you how to do at the top, but there's only so much room there). There was also a set of pages called hosted at pbclibrary.org [2] which goes over the mouse basics and doesn't require scrolling before the concept is introduced, but it's somewhat outdated. But those two were about it. The rest were mostly non-interactive videos. And in all these cases, discovery is a major problem - most of the time, the only way you're going to be able to get to those in the first place is through someone who already knows how to use a mouse. We're all assuming that schools are teaching these basics. But what if they're not? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFzIllvHzU [1] https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/mousetutorial/mouse-tutorial/1/ [2] http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/ |