[richardthered]

Grade school. I learned that computers followed rules. And if you learned the rules, you could make it do interesting things.

My classroom was the first class in the school to get a computer. At the time, nobody knew how to work the things, so instead of rotating around all of the different classrooms each week, it was left in our room for half of the year.

During that time, I got to use it a lot and became more fluent on it than the teacher. Eventually, a local news crew came to do a story on this rollout of computers in the classroom, and I got to be on local TV showing the reporter how to do stuff on this 'new technology'.

I learned that not everyone 'got' computers like I did.