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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The first generation of software for early stored-program digital computers in the late 1940s

80 years isn't "new"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It really wasn’t a consumer constant in the 40s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

White the other person saying 80 years is a bit much, it has been a constant for at least 40 years now.

Personal computing and software isn't new.

Edit: To clarify, 1984 (40 years ago) saw Superbowl ads for the Apple Macintosh and the advent of the CD-ROM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

You’ll have people in governments that remember a time without computers

You’ll have some that don’t understand buying is just renting because it wasn’t a thing

Even 30 years is pushing it as a widespread thing for home use 30 years ago would fall into the second group

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll agree that 40 may be a bit too far given some of the real dinosaurs in government. That being said, dating myself here but I have very fond memories of personal computing in the early 90s, even playing games online!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

I think my first notebook ran Windows 95 but I we didn’t have constant phoning home from software

We did have dial up though!