Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google’s plan to “onboard kids” into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this November 2020 presentation, Google writes that getting kids into its ecosystem “leads to brand trust and loyalty over their lifetime,” as reported earlier by NBC News. The heavily-redacted documents, […]
Back in the 1980s we had the Computer Literacy project, where the BBC were tasked with finding/commissioning a computer to use as the basis for their programmes. Obviously this was a lucrative contract - the chance to build a computer which would be promoted on the BBC - of all places - and supplied to schools across the UK. The BBC Micro ended up being from a little company called Acorn (you may know them from the ARM processors they invented).
They must have done alright out of it, but it was only the posh kids who actually had one at home. The rest of us had something cheaper, and only used the BBCs at school.