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Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by JorgeGT on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#18599073)
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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[1] https://youtu.be/Hy9R41Rord0?t=60

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Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by Waterluvian on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:56AM (#18599413)
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.

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