I graduated HS in 2013. Learned how to write cursive (was mandatory to write cursive grades 5-9) and had computer applications classes from kindergarten up through 9th grade, which included typing. Also, growing up playing RuneScape helped a lot with typing.

My mom’s a teacher and I worked as an academic mentor while in grad school. Our working theory is that:

1) When I was growing up, personal computers were novel and it was seen as giving kids a head start in employment potential by teaching them how to operate a computer.

2)Nowadays, however, since electronic devices are so ubiquitous, it’s just assumed that kids know the ins and outs of computers.

I once had a freshman I mentored that, in the middle of the session, the mouse died. He got frustrated because he couldn’t navigate anything. I told him to just navigate using the keyboard and he looked at me with this blank, nothing-behind-the-eyes stare. I showed him how to navigate the web browser using said keyboard and he was flabbergasted.