They are in their early 20s and not American¹. Why is that so hard to grasp?

1: https://voxelmanip.se/about/

My fellow old person, Deep Space Nine came out 32 years ago. It's not something the nerds of today need to know. All these great sources of nerd allusions will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

Nerds gatekeeping nerds. Truly old internet moment.

Star Wars and Star Trek mean very little to people outside "Western" countries. If you go to China, most people won't understand a thing about Star Wars, including computer nerds/science fiction fans. And they live their life just fine.

Don't assume certain things that happened during a certain period are universal to everybody.

Not every interest comes with age. I am interesed in some antique stuff that's way older than me.

im 30 yo and i didnt know what a tricoder was

Not every nerdy person is into Star Trek?

Star Wars is imo way more mainstream than Star Trek these days (especially with Disney pumping it), but even then there are tons of people in their 20s working in tech who haven’t seen it and have no interest in it.

I don’t think there was more than one person on my previous Android team who would’ve gotten the Tricoder reference, and I was the youngest person there (29 years old at the time; learned about Tricoder literally just from this thread myself).

If you picked a random person working on Android source code and asked me to guess whether they know about Tricoder (without knowing any additional info about them), I would have decisively guessed “no”.

Right? It could be an attempt at humor, but it could also be someone who is naive of culture before 2003. I lost some respect for the author at that point...