Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
by Waterluvian on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:30AM
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The lack of internet on my LCIII as a kid forced me to scour every bit off these dozen or so "Nautilus" CDs we got in the mail. They were like little random chunks of internet. Some demos, software, music, a video (holy crap video on a computer!!!), And lots of written media.
It forced me out of necessity to give time to content I never would have bothered with otherwise.
Boredom is so healthy.
Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
by everdrive on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:04AM
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No doubt. I'm glad to see other people saying this. I used to be bored all the time, and it did wonderful things for me.
Among those: the media, fiction, or interactions that were meaningful to me held more space in my mind. They weren't competing against a sea of trash and new stimulus.
Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
by JorgeGT on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:09AM
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Sooo many hours with that orbit simulator in Encarta 96 [1] and here I am now, assistant professor in Aerospace Engineering...
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Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
by Waterluvian on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:56AM
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I spent hours and hours with Robot Odyssey when I was 9-10 and hours with Fisher Technic around 10-11 because there just wasn't a ton of other games on the family Apple IIGS. On mobile so sorry no links but the former is basically robot programming with logic gates. The latter was scale industrial hardware and software. And yeah. Now I'm a roboticist.
Also I did a ton of engineering and robotics extra curricular stuff through the years. Then one year we got broadband and I got Lego Mindstorms. I took it out of the box once. I still feel bad about that gift.
But today, when I can barely get shit done with all the distractions at my fingertips, I wonder if I could learn the basics before gravitating towards something passive.