I mean its like he has been hibernating in a cave for the last 30 years and woke up in modern times remembering only shit from the 80's. I just don't get how overtime as these things was being invented and coming out he didn't know about them.
shareYou just have to suspend disbelief and treat Johnny like a comic book character. Instead of being in a block of ice like Captain America, he was just in a drunken haze all those decades.
shareIt kind of makes sense. His life went to shit and he just did manual labor/handyman jobs.
Not knowing anything about the Internet was a stretch though he would have still been pretty young when that came out even if it was dial up.
But as the other poster mentioned he's an extreme a cartoon character who lives and breathes the 80's.
Yeah i get what you mean about him almost being a cartoon character from the 80's.
shareIt happens.
I'm not exactly old and I'm out of touch with a lot of trends as well as some technology like phones. It's not my bag and I can't muster up the energy to display interest in those things.
Yeah i mean i'm kinda the same way, i don't know shit about iphones, never owned one, but i think everyone knows what wifi is lol and basic internet skills. Johnny was like "Wait so you can find pictures of girls on this thing and look up stuff about movies? cool" thats just what i find weird, i get not being savy to technology but not even being aware of the abilities of the internet is odd.
shareAs the poster said earlier, you have to suspend disbelief. But it does seem like if the writers wanted us to buy it, then they wouldn't have shown him hanging a TV early in the show. Because if he's installing TVs then he'd just have to know a little about WiFi and other related modern technology.
And to me Johnny is very much the type of guy who loves the most up to date flash version of anything. He would love to just stream movies etc but again it's a show and he seems to have been in a slumber mentally and emotionally speaking for a couple of decades.
shareWas he installing the TV or just hanging it on the (wrong ) wall?
shareHe occasionally makes a 90's reference, but yeah it's like he was living under a rock for the whole 21st century.
shareJohnny thinks computers are for nerds. He's obviously not a tech guy. He's also living in the past.
shareI can definitely see him being out of touch with smartphones and social media and all that crap. I'm probably under half his age and I'm a bit out of touch with that stuff myself.
But being out of touch on computers and the internet, which have been big since the 90s, is a bit more farfetched.
Still that scene where he discovers googling and faps to hot babes was pretty cool, even though it would have made more sense if this show came out 10-15 years ago.
He's not the only one. I'm just beginning to master the ins and outs of the cell phone (again, what's an "app"?).
shareThere are still people that don't even own computers, and even people that do not own, and have never owned a cell phone.
I have never owned a smartphone, for the very good reason, that I have never had any kind of need for one. I can take photos with my camera, I can play games on my DS, I can use my old 'dumb phone' for calls and SMS messages, and the rest of the stuff I can do on my computer.
To me, exploring the outside world is more fun WITHOUT any GPS stuff, and NOT knowing what's behind the next corner in a place where I never been before.
Heck, 'getting lost' is actually one of my very fun hobbies! It's scary, it's exhilirating, but holy macril, is it memorable and fun!
"App", I think, comes from the word 'Application', and it's basically a computer program. You can have applications even on desktop computers, they don't have to be smartphones (The old AmigaOS used to have 'applications'-directory somehere, I think).
Of course it would be easier to combine all those devices into one, but when I am home, I have so many computers, I can do everything I want and need here - - and when I go outside, I like to be as 'non-tech' as possible, and just enjoy the world as it is, instead of through a screen.
When I am outside the house, I like to just _BE_ there in the present, instead of turning into a phone-zombie (it's scary to look at them, they really feel like some kind of beings from the black swamp, just blindly staring at a tiny rectangle, and missing all the beautiful summer scenery).
Even if there's only 1 more minute until the bus comes, they will all just rather stare at that rectangular smallness the WHOLE MINUTE instead of just letting for for at least the last minute before the bus arrives.
Is it really THAT scary to not stare at a screen for 60 seconds?
I know people who know nothing about computers and the internet, though all of them are my parents' age or older (i.e., Baby Boomers or Silent Generation). I'm Generation X, like Johnny is, and I know next to nothing about "smartphones," though I could figure one out pretty quickly if I didn't find their mere existence highly irritating. On the other hand, I've worked in IT as a network administrator before, so I know about PCs and the internet. Johnny being that out of touch with technology is unusual, especially for Generation X, but not unheard of.
The part where he spoke aloud a URL wasn't even remotely believable though. Anyone who has watched TV or listened to the radio in the past 20+ years has heard plenty of URLs spoken aloud and would know that "dot" is the term people use, rather than "period." The terms "WWW dot" and especially "dot com" are far too prevalent in modern society for that to be believable.