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Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child” by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:30PM (#16369475)
They pulled it off effectively with the personal computer of the early 90s.

Edit: Unwittingly.

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Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child” by jonlucc on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:41PM (#16369578)
Maybe, but then when you turned off the computer, you might have gone to sit in front of the TV with your family, or played a board game, or talk on the phone with your friends. All of those things can happen online, and so I don't know that it's fair to compare computer usage of the 90s with computer usage today.
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Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child” by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:59PM (#16370191)
It's fair to say computer's of today can turn off as well as the computers of the 90s.
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Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child” by Nition on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:35PM (#16371502)
Better really, my computer turns itself off when I shut it down now. I used to have to do it manually once it was "now safe to turn off your computer."
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Re:The Case for the “Self-Driven Child” by closeparen on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:20AM (#16374339)
In the early 90s, your friends hadn't necessarily all moved their social lives to the computer.
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