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Mid 40's and older had to learn without the use of the internet. Programming as a profession wasn't ubiquitous as it is now for that same age group.

Above 50 and they didn't have a computer in their house growing up. I'm mid 40's and I had one by 9th grade, but it was a high bar for entry compared to today.

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Late 40s and you probably graduated college with USENET but not the web.

I would say that during the 8-bit computer era having a home computer was not that odd (well, excluding the Apple II because that was expensive).

52 and I started with a KIM-1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 (mowed lawns to save up for it, still have it, still works). Been programming ever since and rarely use SO (most of the time I just read the code when I'm trying to grock some aspect of a library.)

ooo, I am same age and KIM-1 was one of first computers I worked with , thanks for memories

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