[detaro]

As if the majority of people had a clue about these things back in the day.

[ekianjo]

Probably more than now because computing was not really "mainstream" at the time. Before Win95 at least.

[boomlinde]

Computing was not mainstream, so kids had a better idea about it?

[pdpi]

I guess the kids who got it were a smaller fraction of the total population of kids, but a bigger fraction of the population of kids who owned a computer.