I have a number of compatriots from another board I post on who are mostly in IT. I'm not going to tell you which board it is, but I've met a bunch of them, and they all seemed to at least tolerate me. But as I said, they're mostly in IT. And a lot of them are around my age or a bit younger. Basically, early to middle millennials. For the record, I was born 1985 so that makes me an early millennial. There's a couple older, and a couple younger, but most of us are in our 30s.

So, at a meet of a bunch of us last year, we were sat around in a pub and one of them, who works as a network manager in a school, observed that Kids These Days are next to technologically illiterate compared to us cranky old cloud-shouting millennials. That zoomers don't seem to get things technological other than on a very surface level, and asking them to do anything vaguely complicated or sort things out sends them into tailspins of confusion. Now this isn't a hard and fast rule, mind, but basically, it's something

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1. What is your name?

My friends call me Jeff. npecom is an old biz handle, which is an acronym for "New Paradigm Enterprises - Communication Division"

2. Tell us something about you, your background, and what you've been up to lately?

I've worn various hats, but then finally retired from 28+ years as a "Clean Water Technician"

3. How did you discover Everything, and how did you become a noder?

I, quite literally, typed the word "everything"