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  Fucking hilarious. I bet OP can't even write a basic program in any language.
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  Only if they’re assholes. 
  What a shitty take on what is basically a necessity in today’s world. If you like your family at all, don’t be a dick - help out and teach them tech as it keeps progressing. >
  
  Exactly. Someone who can’t use a computer in basic ability is seriously disadvantaged. Especially when you consider how fast technological advances have been in the last few decades >
  
  This is stupid. Boomers invented computers. In fact, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were both born in 1955. >
  
  Fun fact: most Boomer parents are not, in fact, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. >
  
  My grandmother regularly used her computer and iPad well into her 90s and was really good at it.
  My mom is 75 and regularly live streams and maintains her organization's social media. 
  I'm gen X and I've been on the internet since 1989.  
  Maybe you just don't have a good relationship with your older family members and you should work on that. Technology is just a tool to make the world better. >
  
  Reddit hates old people, and blames everything on "boomers". >
  
  I'm gen X and most millennial I come in contact with know shit about computers. I'm sorry I taught millennial how to use the computer...