Internet Boomers? There were no boomers on IRC. As always, the people have forgotten Gen X, the ones who were there, pioneering the internet, and patiently showing the boomers how to use a printer for the 987th time.
I think that was a joke about us being around for old shit like this on the Internet, not literally being boomers. Internet boomers, gray beards, etc. I’m on the older side of millennial and I remember it all because I started young lol.
Everyone who isn’t clearly GenZ or Alpha is a Boomer, it’s the classic “word got used by too many people until it developed the mushiest possible meaning.”
It’s just new slang for “old fart” now.
I also have the funny feeling that the IRC channels are still banging out there, and probably where all the good times are since everyone else is not there.
Internet Boomers? There were no boomers on IRC. As always, the people have forgotten Gen X, the ones who were there, pioneering the internet, and patiently showing the boomers how to use a printer for the 987th time.
I think that was a joke about us being around for old shit like this on the Internet, not literally being boomers. Internet boomers, gray beards, etc. I’m on the older side of millennial and I remember it all because I started young lol.
Everyone who isn’t clearly GenZ or Alpha is a Boomer, it’s the classic “word got used by too many people until it developed the mushiest possible meaning.”
It’s just new slang for “old fart” now.
I also have the funny feeling that the IRC channels are still banging out there, and probably where all the good times are since everyone else is not there.