I’m Gen X and one of the oldest people where I work. Just one person besides me has any true understanding of computers/IT, one year younger than me.

Everyone else is completely lost if the connection between your personal terminal and the office printer fails. Or the cleaning lady has once again managed to release the mystic cables out of their holy sockets.

Sometimes I fix stuff in the terminal just to tease the younger colleagues, then I show them how it can be done with the GUI. They find it baffling that a “not-programmer” can “hack stuff”.

It is both funny and frustrating.