Re: The "shrink wrap" era?
Good post, very true.
Bizarrely though - once you finally got your computer working it was relatively easy in a sense to do interesting stuff on it - e.g. once you got your ZX81 or C64 running you could start coding immediately, even if it was just silly, basic stuff.
You can't easily start to code on a smartphone/tablet, not in the same way and they're not seen as computers to the average person, even thought that's what they really are.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
