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by pivo 5105 days ago
This reminds me of an experience I had with my girlfriend's eight year old son who was raised on xboxes and other high-tech toys. One day we got him a baseball, glove and a net that allowed him to throw the ball into the net and catch it on the rebound. He reluctantly started playing with this stuff in the yard and a half hour later he was still at it, and really enjoying it.

Afterwards he told me, "I don't understand why this is so fun." At first I didn't understand what he meant by that, but then I realized that he was confused about how something so low tech could actually be really entertaining.