• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Like this wasn’t Apple’s fault. Remember that ad where the kid doesn’t know what a “computer” was?

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      6 months ago

      Apple famously worked very hard to put iMacs into elementary schools. Back before laptops were cheap and schools still had “computer labs.”

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        6 months ago

        To be fair, back when the first computer labs came around in schools, the only thing really available was the Apple II. Nothing else was terribly useful for teaching how to use a computer. It was only later in the 80s that the IBM PC came around and took over for a while.