this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

No, i'm not missing your point.