I would’ve thought you were the coolest ever, I wasn’t even 10 when it came out and thought computers were super interesting but my parents both couldn’t afford and didn’t have any desire to buy one. School time was limited to at best an hour a week and that was always for a directed activity.
I look at it now as someone in IT and can roll my eyes at the goofiness of it but I fucking loved that scene when I saw it the first time
I grew up in a college town with a dad that was interested in computers but didn’t understand them, so I inherited them when he gave up. It gave me a lot of experience by the time that movie came out. I was already in high school too, so that helped. But if you wanted to use the internet back then, almost pre-web, knowing UNIX really helped.
I would’ve thought you were the coolest ever, I wasn’t even 10 when it came out and thought computers were super interesting but my parents both couldn’t afford and didn’t have any desire to buy one. School time was limited to at best an hour a week and that was always for a directed activity.
I look at it now as someone in IT and can roll my eyes at the goofiness of it but I fucking loved that scene when I saw it the first time
I grew up in a college town with a dad that was interested in computers but didn’t understand them, so I inherited them when he gave up. It gave me a lot of experience by the time that movie came out. I was already in high school too, so that helped. But if you wanted to use the internet back then, almost pre-web, knowing UNIX really helped.