One of the great things about growing up in the 80s was that virtually all computers booted into a BASIC interpreter as soon as you flipped the power switch, and presented you with a flashing cursor eagerly awaiting your program input.

Computers don't work like that today. Installation and configuration of various dependencies are a real challenge when learning.

This is especially true when trying to teach kids - we like to think they're all computer geniuses now, but really a lot of kids don't seem to have any idea of how to navigate a file system. They're hooked on installers.