@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social I started with computers when I was 4 or 5, on a Commodore 64. I had to learn how computers worked to make them work, from load ,8,1 to custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files, upgrading modems and RAM. Now everything just works (to an extent) and all of that detail is hidden, so even people that have been using computers their whole lives don't have to learn these things. Computers have become like cars, used by many but understood by few.