Yes, this is one reason I am personally really sensitive when various people say how privileged I was to get into computers and that we somehow got all this encouragement unlike young women, etc.
In the 80s we were mocked and called nerds for being interested in computers, and before and after dot com people thought this was dead end career.
Yes. Even as the internet started to become a thing in 1994-1995 when I was in middle school, I'd reckon less than half of my class had a computer at home - and fewer still of them would ever want to mention it.
In the 80s we were mocked and called nerds for being interested in computers, and before and after dot com people thought this was dead end career.