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Re: Are geeks becoming more respected?

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Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:

> I can remember when someone I knew would say how she didn't like 
> technology, but the moment she got home she'd rush to her telephone 
> answering machine, and she drove a car, and she was constantly on the 
> phone.  She didn't think of them as technology.

1989: I told my friends, "You have to get access to email somehow."
      And they all replied, "Oooohhh, geeky.  I hate computers.
      What's wrong with the telephone?  Gak!"

2015: The same friends all say, "What?!  You don't use Facebook? No
      Twitter?  No UTube?  No tablet?  You don't text?  You don't even
      *have* a cellphone?  Whaddya?  Some kind of Luddite?"

> "Everyone" codes now, but look deeper and it's about making a 
> webpage, when html isn't even a coding language, but markup tags.

More typically, they use some on-line HTML composer service that
builds a web page for them. The result is a horrible mare's nest of
markup, script, inline image and font data and other penc.  My SiL did
that and the result had no non-markup readable text whatever.  The
composer put all the substantive text *inside* <DIV... tags:

      <DIV attrib=foo txt="real-text-here"...>

For my part, being on the edge of being dragged kicking and snarling
into the 21st c. by getting a cell phone, I would dearly like to find
the right kind of geek.  I know quite a bit about biochemistry,
metallurgy, computers, Perl, C, Linux, TCP/IP etc.  but doodlysquat
about cell phones.  But the sources of information seem to be (A)
people who speak current impenetrable jargon and assume knowledge of
all the current consumer-recognizable "features" of phones and (B)
people who are keen to sell me hardware and/or service and speak
Marketing Droid.

Ho hum.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Are geeks becoming more respected? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-03-22 10:35 +1100
  Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-22 08:25 +0200
  Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2017-03-22 10:40 +0000
  Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2017-03-22 13:01 -0400
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