Typing was taught to boomers and genx first dude. In fact, as a liminal i'd readily say i've had an arseload more typing "teaching" than you have - both keyboard and typewriter- and i'll wager my mother in the age of typewriters had even more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think you're missing my point. I'm not saying nobody ever was taught to type in earlier generations. I'm saying that millennials were the first where there was a widespread recognition that typing was a valuable skill EVERYONE needed to learn, regardless of your future life path. Of course there were people getting trained to type ever since the first keyboards were invented. I mean, there were people as long ago as the 1870s learning to type on the earliest mass-produced typewriters.

I'm talking about a generational cohort as a whole, not individual select cases.

And I'm also talking about the difference between typing being a skill you learn for school/work vs something you use for socialization.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I took typing class in high school. On a typewriter. Gen X. My mom was a trained stenographer in her younger years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

X here as well. But 78. So i got to take advantage of the digital age without having my teen stupidity immortalised on it. Truly the sweetest of spots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I am a bit older but similar. My dad was an early adopter of computers even though he had zero idea how to use one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

The typewriter generation are probably faster overall because they don't make mistakes.

Being able to delete any error makes you far less careful.

Sure, modern programs will autocorrect for you, but autocorrect to what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Microsoft word fixing tiny mistakes like reversed i and e or other very common errors has made me an absurdly lazy typist.

[–] LeFantome 1 points 1 hour ago

Indeed. I joke that I can type 100 words per minute but that 32 of them are backspace.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it was funny teaching my grandmother to use a computer... She couldn't use a mouse, but she typed really fast!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I can type fast, but I have to hit the backspace really often.