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[–] Marighost@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

My elementary school had those chunky, colorful iMac G3s that I played hella coolmathgames on. At home we had an old Compaq desktop with Windows 2000 (later XP).

I never learned anything useful except general computer literacy but I sure do miss those days.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I started with System 7 on the Mac and because of that I had to quickly learn ResEdit and hex editing. Ironically this made me better later in life with windows and Linux, that shit is a breeze in comparison.

Also HyperCard fucking slapped

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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wait, if "Linux"=autistic, what does that make us GNU/Linux users?

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[–] mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am probably the only person ever to grow up with a UNIX terminal server as my home computer. any crazy IT thing i do now pales in comparison to my dad, running ethernet cables through our heating ducts in a probable building code violation

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[–] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First home family computer was a Packard Bell, windows 3.1...was forbidden from taking it apart or messing with the settings.

First computer that I was allowed to mess with was a thrift store Commodor 64...

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

careful, you mentioned linux on 196, that's a hangin' offense

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish Linux existed when I was twelve.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

It did when I was, and it was a nightmare even though I was very tech savvy

It’s so much better now

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My commodore 64 laughs at the false dichotomy.

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Autistic children will be discluded from the study for skewing results"

"Autism involves a significant deviation from expected behaviour"

They have played us for absolute fools.

(I know autism describes a real cluster of traits, but it is only socially constructed norms that define those traits as aberrant, I am not saying it isn't real)

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[–] sircac@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Correlation does not imply causation though...

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Indeed. It can hint towards more required research.

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[–] kelargo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Where does TRS-80 fit into this study?

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