[Info-vax] Confuse the kids!

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In article <etblt7Fa76cU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>On 7/20/2017 5:06 AM, IanD wrote:
>> I tried to edumacate my kids by showing them VMS a few years back
>> 
>> I showed them a VMS login and showed how when you typed commands the system churned away and responded
>> 
>> They looked at me typing stuff, doing a show monitor for less than 30 seconds and said "Meh, how boring" and walked off
>> 
>> I managed to throw in a comment about that's sort of what your tablet and phone does in the background but they couldn't care
>> 
>> A few years before that I showed them a video of a large DC I had to go to once and showed them all the servers lined up and even one that was very colorful and had Google on the front of it - same response, they were just not interested
>> 
>> Very disappointing indeed :-(
>> 
>
>And still you wonder why bringing VMS back is going to be a really hard
>sell.....

My kid got his hands on Linux.  He played about with it and he got many things
working -- much to my surprise -- but he lost initiative when he had to spend
too much time typing to interface with it.  They'd prefer mindless games over
learning or doing anything truly useful with IT.  My kid desires to get into
game development but I think he's in for a big surprise. ;)  Just in case, I
have him practicing proper pronunciation of. "Would you like fries with your
order?"

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