I was 12 and was dead set on being a doctor until I walked into a computer store with my family (notably, the last in the neighborhood not to have a computer).
It was December, 1984.
The Macintosh (which almost no one had heard of) had recently come out.
I had had some computer experience (Commodore 64, Apple II) but the first Mac was like some alien device from the far future that ticked all the boxes I didn’t know I even had.
I was so excited and so convinced that I was witnessing the future of literally everything that I stuttered while being unable to stop what we would now call “nerdgasming”. Awe. Awe times 1000. That mind-blowing emoji? That was me.
Apparently my parents were receptive to my nerdthusiasm because they dropped a ton of 1984 cash on one and that became my “best christmas present ever”.
I code now. =)
We don’t know what the future holds, but some of us can sense when we see it.
It was December, 1984.
The Macintosh (which almost no one had heard of) had recently come out.
I had had some computer experience (Commodore 64, Apple II) but the first Mac was like some alien device from the far future that ticked all the boxes I didn’t know I even had.
I was so excited and so convinced that I was witnessing the future of literally everything that I stuttered while being unable to stop what we would now call “nerdgasming”. Awe. Awe times 1000. That mind-blowing emoji? That was me.
Apparently my parents were receptive to my nerdthusiasm because they dropped a ton of 1984 cash on one and that became my “best christmas present ever”.
I code now. =)
We don’t know what the future holds, but some of us can sense when we see it.