Re:Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learni...
by simion314 on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:23AM
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In my village there was no cable TV at all for a long period of time after 89, of course we had no internet and when we finally afford a cheap 486 PC(at that time my friends had pentium 2s) me and my brother learn to use Windows95 in English with no instructions.
Other memory from that period is trying to get larger files from my friends by splitting them into smaller parts and put them on floppies , or when my mother bought me a Norton Commander book and I learned a lot about low level stuff and what does files in C:\ actually do.
About foreign languages similar as the author I learned English and I can understand Spanish too, but also I can understand French and Italian movies but maybe not as good, there were some good italian movies on national TV back then too.
Other memory from that period is trying to get larger files from my friends by splitting them into smaller parts and put them on floppies , or when my mother bought me a Norton Commander book and I learned a lot about low level stuff and what does files in C:\ actually do.
About foreign languages similar as the author I learned English and I can understand Spanish too, but also I can understand French and Italian movies but maybe not as good, there were some good italian movies on national TV back then too.