Re:John Turturro Introduces America to the World Wide Web in...
by newnewpdro on Saturday September 01, 2018 @08:09PM
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The part about it being just for video games teleported me back to childhood.
It was incredibly frustrating trying to learn linux and programming on my own in a household having religious parents who saw everything with a screen as corrupting Television/Videogames. It was, I shit you not, a constant war just to be able to study anything directly involving the computer.
It did give me a great appreciation for large textbooks though. Even if they were about computer topics, nobody gave me hell for spending hours with books about C or operating systems. Do the same thing interactively at the computer? Forget about it.
It was incredibly frustrating trying to learn linux and programming on my own in a household having religious parents who saw everything with a screen as corrupting Television/Videogames. It was, I shit you not, a constant war just to be able to study anything directly involving the computer.
It did give me a great appreciation for large textbooks though. Even if they were about computer topics, nobody gave me hell for spending hours with books about C or operating systems. Do the same thing interactively at the computer? Forget about it.