[metanonsense]

Some things were also pretty hard back then (a few years later but still). When you were too young for university and your environment was not academic, getting access to information was so difficult. I remember when we made a school trip to London and I spent all my savings for programming and computer graphic books. There was no wikipedia, no scihub, no blogs, no Github. New coding or hacking e-zines were treated like gold and sometimes I spent multiple months of my savings to get 1 book!

[mod]

I think I had to wait about 6 months to rent an HTML4 book from the library.

It was massive. Maybe 6 inches thick. I devoured it, and later bought my own copy.

[kaybe]

My computer spoke English. I didn't. I just had some nonsensical (for me) commands memorized. Things were indeed different back then.