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Anyone else guilty of this? (media.piefed.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You do realize that is/was extremely uncommon, right?

Not to argue against your nerddom, I'm sure you are, and of course nerds have been nerding for quite a long time, but uh, you won the time and place birth lottery to be a Boomer born into prime recruiting territory for Silicon Valley, IBM probably directly paid for that class.

Programming, actual courses in writing code... beyond maybe basic HTML... were basically unheard of in US public k-12 schools untill like, the late 2000s at best, more like 2010s.

You were in the right place at the right time to be able to recieve formal nerd training in a public high school in the 70s.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes a privileged place and time.