@Pepijn Yes! not weird tech but a sweet story. Here goes:

My dad was a techy, he was part of the team that built the radiotelescopes in Westerbork in Holland. So his work was already amazing. (Picture: him at his work, a place of magic for me.)

At home he made us into techies as well. I have fond memories of the ZX Spectrum with the rubber keys. I felt so cool writing basic! (Ok copying it from a magazine).

In our garden we had some huge antennas. Probably about 10 meters high, next to our house. It was the era of illegal radio stations, so every once in a while a special police car would slowly drive past our house.

The joke was that we were only receiving, not sending. So we laughed a lot. And the best part is that the antennas had such a small task: we received data from weather satellites that would tell us if we needed to pack our raincoats to school.
We had a weather app before there was proper internet! He is dead now, but sometimes I still hear him laughing. ❤️