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		ekianjo on April 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators Probably more than now because computing was not really "mainstream" at the time. Before Win95 at least.

boomlinde on April 8, 2015 [–]

Computing was not mainstream, so kids had a better idea about it?

pdpi on April 8, 2015 | [–]

I guess the kids who got it were a smaller fraction of the total population of kids, but a bigger fraction of the population of kids who owned a computer.

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