Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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    • Poik@pawb.social
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      10 months ago

      Most boomers I know still can’t use a mouse. Millennials and gen X fill most of the old Internet in my mind, but the original '91 Internet was a lot of tech focused boomers, but also was significantly Gen X. '95-'99 seemed to pick up more traction with my generation.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I think it’s sample bias. I graduated with a CS degree in 85 and started working as a software engineer in aerospace. It was pretty much all boomers when I started.

        There might be more people from later generations who grew up doing their homework on computers, so the disparity between tech folks and non-tech folks in those later generations seems less, but the Internet was mostly created by boomer tech people.

        I’m the senior manager of the organization I started in in 85, and I still have boomers working for me.