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February 23, 2012 6:01 PM

Piotr Czerski sets out a Polish manifesto demanding respect for the internet generation (translated from the original Polish) that is reminiscent of a Eastern European addition to previous internet manifestos. Poland is somewhere this has definite roots however, with a recent anti-ACTA protest of over 10,000 people and legislators wear anon masks in parliament.
posted by jaduncan (8 comments total)

According to this (a translation of his Polish Wikipedia entry), Piotr was born in 1981. Mosaic was released when he was 12.
posted by el io at 7:05 PM on February 23, 2012

These so-called "web kids" are ancient blowhards who waste my time. My generation says don't trust any manifesto over 140 characters. So I b
posted by twoleftfeet at 9:03 PM on February 23, 2012 [1 favorite]

This is one of those articles where I wish I could take a pen to the margins and flesh out the "yes, but..." sense I get reading it.
posted by postcommunism at 9:25 PM on February 23, 2012

This is one of those articles where I wish I could take a pen to the margins and flesh out the "yes, but..." sense I get reading it.

You could write about it here. I for one would like to know what you think.
posted by ahzee at 9:34 PM on February 23, 2012

I am very happy to be just young enough, and to have had the opportunities early in life, to piggyback with this cohort of new people. When I was 6 or 7 my dad convinced the phone company to buy a radio shack (or similar) microcomputer for study purposes. He built it on the kitchen table, and spent hours programming it so the little row of LEDs (the only output) would flash in different patterns. This was maybe 1973?
posted by Meatbomb at 11:17 PM on February 23, 2012

Counter-counter point. I don't do that, and nor do any of the students I know who graduated with me. My sample size is actually bigger than that of the study.
posted by jaduncan at 1:28 AM on February 24, 2012

Of course, because of the shift in assumptions about how a search box should operate, lots of search boxes now do accommodate Google-style searches (especially, of course, the many that are actually powered by Google). When I'm confronted with a search box, my first inclination is to use it Google-style, just because it's easier and requires fewer keystrokes and clicks. Of course, I know enough that once I get the results I can look at them and say, "Hm, that didn't work," and modify my search accordingly.
posted by Faint of Butt at 2:11 AM on February 24, 2012

From the Counterpoint article:
Students regularly used JSTOR to try to find current research on a topic, not realizing that JSTOR does not provide access to the most recently published articles.
Which exactly illustrates the whole problem. Why should people born in the Internet era expect JSTOR not to carry the most recently published articles? I happen to understand it because I was trained in the old ways and I know how JSTOR works but that's a relic from a former era, not something that makes any sort of sense today. The fact that this is surprising to the researchers tells more about the researchers themselves than it tells about the students. Could anyone imagine that Metafilter FPPs show up in Google years (instead of minutes) after they're published?
posted by elgilito at 2:43 AM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]