Matthew Sparby40 years ago today, I woke to find this under the Christmas tree. It's not an overstatement to say that my life was changed forever.
Nico Erfurth@Cloudscout @koehntopp I wonder what todays equivalent would be. I don’t mean „get them a new PC“. But what could be the one thing which has the potential to have such a drastic effect. For us it were the c64s and Amigas. What technology could we give them to have a similar lasting effect. Most likely it’s going to be something we don’t really understand and might even have sentiments against.
koehntopp ~ :@masta @Cloudscout
One of the things that glued us to them was the absence of anything that was remotely as cool and interesting as computers, plus the absence of all the distraction that is streaming and social media.
If you mastered computers, you could do something nearly noone of the grown-ups could.
@koehntopp @masta The real obsession for me came when I got a modem and started calling BBSes.