|
|
|
|
|
|
by leoedin
1587 days ago
|
|
|
About 15 years ago when my grandfather was in the later years of his life we bought him a DVD player. He was an educated man, but he was never interested in computers or technology. Despite it being the mid-2000s he'd managed to completely ignore almost everything about computers until then. When I was trying to teach him to use it, I was amazed to find that even the simple (in my mind) concept that pressing the "up" button the remote would move the menu selection up on the screen, and that to play the DVD you needed to select the "Play movie" option and choose "enter" was completely foreign to him. I think as "digital natives" with both long term exposure and a real interest in technology, it's very easy to forget how many layers of implicit knowledge our systems are built on. |
|
|
Agreed, see replies to my comment on the linked post when trying to explain hardware usage from the perspective of older folks who aren't used to it, lots of replies along the lines of "they can this through Settings->General->blah"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598685