https://digitalwriting.site/2026/02/27/abbey-smith-week-6/ Experiments in Digital Content Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:53:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/02/27/abbey-smith-week-6/#comment-675 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:53:20 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=2018#comment-675 File not found was really interesting to me because, for a moment, I couldn’t believe that kids had no ideas about file directories and how to navigate this stuff. Once I thought about it more, though, I realized that my knowledge of file directories is a result of my own exploration of it. Through modding games, doing OS reinstalls, cleaning up registries, and general bug fixing I have come to know the Windows system somewhat well. That being said, outside of Reddit and YouTube, no one ever actually sat me down and taught me how to engage with this stuff. Its no wonder why kids today are struggling with it. No one has taken the time to help them and by the time they are introduced to it, they have years of inefficient habits and assumptions about file systems they have to unlearn. It makes me wonder about the thought process of younger generations. There must be some larger psychological system at play when we see kids dump everything into a single folder or on their desktop. I think of the file system as being an expression of how categorized and ordered thinking is in the mind. File systems are a digital analogue to thought and consideration/orders of importance. What does it say about the thought process of the younger generations that their file systems are so disordered yet able to be navigated despite that disorder?

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