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by Martin_Silenus 277 days ago
Yeah... schools ARE social places. Jobs too. Personal computers at home were NOT. That's the point.
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AstralStorm 277 days ago
Interesting but wrong. Almost always kids perused the computers together and shared what they made. This worked exactly like arcades at times.

So not it either. Really my guess is that at some point games started being made for boys only. You saw a lot of war and fighting, racing style games, with much less else. Even platformers started to wear those trappings.

Further, early games were always competitive. That does not generally appeal to people with less testosterone.

There were exceptions, but the rule is as it is.

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Martin_Silenus 277 days ago
> Almost always kids perused the computers together and shared what they made.

It is an assumption based on what is visible.

> There were exceptions, but the rule is as it is.

There are always exceptions, but this rule is yours.

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defrost 277 days ago
> Personal computers at home were NOT.

Subjective. I'm still in touch with a wide circle of both genders who had PC's at home back when we collaborated on projects together.

eg: one of these authors: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/geometric-mechanics-...

had a father who sold early Apple & IBM home computers, much fun was had by my circle building transputer array's and other such things in back sheds.

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