![]() I was blown away and I used every moment in which he wasn’t at the computer to create “stuff” with it. ![]() No need to say that I saw a very different potential in that mysterious box: colours (although the monitor was only showing shades of green!) and sounds to create some sort of emotional response in the people around me. He invested two months of his salary believing to bring home an ultra-modern mix between his old Olivetti type writer and a powerful calculator to make his job easier, increasing his productivity. It all started when I was only 8 and my father bought his first computer consisting in a chunky gray keyboard named Commodore 64, with a few peripherals: a green monochrome monitor, a tape device, a floppy disk drive and a very noisy dot matrix printer. However for a few of us it meant dreaming about becoming superstars creating (or hacking) video-games! This for many of the kids of my generations meant a shift in the way they entertained themselves. ![]() ![]() I have been lucky enough to be able to witness a few incredible revolutions: the advent of the internet is a massive one (can you imagine a world without it? That was the reality in which all the following events happened), but before this there has been another big one: the moment when computers entered the households. ![]()
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