When I was young my mum n dad used to force me to do a hour of writing everyday after school to improve my writing, never worked, and now I work in IT so have almost zero reason for a pen or pencil. What a waste of time. Good job I was unsupervised and only used to do it once a week then give them the same sheet every day!
I’ve always had sloppy handwriting, but I had to handwrite a note for someone and I’ve never seen my handwriting so neat! I’ve not had to write anything with a pen or pencil for at least 2 years. But all of a sudden, its clear, neat and legible, even my cursive is pretty clear too!
Soon we’ll all just be talking to our computers and physical input devices will be a relic. We’re prolly gonna get to a point where were just hooked up to neural networks. Over time people will forget that we used to be able to speak.
Fun fact: me and two other guys were the first ever at our school to be allowed to take our written exit exams on a computer. We had to bring our own and, this being 1999, that meant desktop pcs with huge clunky crt screens 😁
My Dad had a Mac which made it even worse but some of my fondest childhood memories are around playing Full Throttle on that thing. Though Hocus Pocus on my mother’s windows 95 PC is probably my first exposure to PC gaming. But I’ve played NES since I could physically grasp a controller!
With my brothers and me, it was Commodore 64 (Bubble Bobble, Giana Sisters, International Karate, Rockstar Ate My Hamster and many more), then Amiga 500 (Outrun, the first Formula 1, Defender of the Crown and others that don’t come to mind right now) and THEN pc gaming 😁
Then you’re likely the same age as my uncle. In many ways I’m a bit sad I missed that era, the Commodore 64 really shaped a generation in ways the NES just didn’t do because it was “just” a game system. Programming was just so “accessible” in a lack of better words on the 64 and it just didn’t get as accessible again I feel until YouTube but it’s just not the same. I tried to dabble on PC back in the late 90s and early 00s but it was wild west with poor resources outside of schools/heavy (English) literature and full of viruses! In late middle school I learned Basic and it blew my mind back then. But Java felt like such a let down in University. Nowadays I’m into scripting instead and work DevOps.
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