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The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Flax_vert 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Gen Z, probably would know. Although most of them probably don't know what a floppy disk is

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 months ago

Floppy disks are too iconic, even if as Save-buttons. Now try them not knowing early ones were actually floppy!

I'm talking about myself, my 1997 ass had only heard of, and saw pictures of, the hard ones

[–] Blackmist 7 points 2 months ago

I drew a floppy disk as part of an online game of Pictionary and the youngest member of the team thought it was a Playstation 4.

Although he also tried to spell tarantula with a Q in it, so maybe there's something else going on there.