Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readOct 30, 2023

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How condescending of you.

I am 72. I was programming computers in the mid 70s (machine language), did various network engineering courses in the early 90s, joined the web when there were 3004 sites on the entire web, worked as a web designer in London in 2000. I have learnt and discarded more software packages than I know.

I have used Dreamweaver, Photoshop, illustrator, Word, Excel, and many more. Long forgotten.

I do not know anyone who isn"t highly computer savvy. I taught word processing to companies in the 70s when it first came out.

For the record, any secretary in the 70s, 80s, and 90s had to be familiar with Word, Excel, and such like. So it is ridiculous to think we aren't tech savvy.

There was a study a few months back that acknowledged that it's the young ones - not the old ones who aren't tech savvy. They know. Smartphones, but they wouldn't know an F4 from an HTML code set.

What is true is that housewives who never worked or people who waited tables weren't part of the computer revolution. Those of us who worked in the corporate sector are very, very computer savvy. I type 100 wpm. You?

The boomers invented much if the tech today. Certainly, from what you say, I could teach you a thing or two. It's no accident that those of us who earn a reasonable sum on Medium tend to be oldies

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