[moritz]

> You would create and manage content directly from the file explorer application, in the most natural way possible. This version of the web wouldn’t require users to learn advanced computer skills in order to participate.

My students at university (Gen Z) have no concept of the “file system”.

[dialup_sounds]

That's not even a generational thing. People have been (e.g.) saving everything to the desktop for as long as there have been desktops. "Managing files" has always been a subsidiary task to the things people wanted to use computers for.

[pilgrim0]

Inline, ordered multimedia is the backbone of all consumer information systems. So your students have internalized the the archetypal equivalent of file systems through a different vocabulary, such as tweet (for files) and threads (for directories)

[esafak]

Do they not save files on their personal computers (phones, laptops)?

[TheNewsIsHere]

A lot of folks in that demographic are what you might call “cloud natives”. Their hard drives are used for storing the software that connects them to Google Drive or OneDrive or what have you.

We grew up in a time when understanding file systems in terms of “a system for organizing your files” was not optional. Gen Z has grown up in a time when their data was a Google Drive search away from their fingers.