2 Nov
2003
2 Nov
'03
4:05 p.m.
>Just how will we get the young people into older
stuff, be they cars or computers?
Hey, I'm one of them. I'm 23 now, I've been heavy into computers since I was
about 14, been going after classics since I was about 17, worked in the computer lab of
the local science museum(www.omsi.edu) for a year and a half around that time, got my ham
license at 18... And the whole time I've been mostly surrounded by old farts. Rather
depressing sometimes. There's a big problem getting younger people into ham radio,
too... Hell, getting ANYONE. The old people just get grouchier and rarely teach the
others(I'm glad I know a few exceptions to that), then they die and no one knows
anything that isn't spelled out to them in 3rd grade(and we all know no one learns
anything after that).
-JR