Well, I really meant "HN readers" when I said "people". Totally agree with your point though. Kids don't think technology is cool anymore. When I was growing up even the jocks knew how to burn a CD or put a file on a flash drive.
I recall reading some post on a programmer's blog a couple years ago. He lost all his data because he didn't know how to run backups properly; he was the kind of guy who would call over a friend to help him fix something as trivial as badly seated RAM (he wouldn't know it was something trivial, obviously).
Yes. That is a programmer with literally no knowledge of what a computer is or how it works, even at a very rudimentary level.
Ever since I've been careful to never assume anyone knows anything about computers until they demonstrate otherwise, even in a seemingly techy place like HN.
