These Posts and Memes Transport Us Back to the 80s

Back in the 80s and 90s, personal computers were the hot new piece of technology. They’d been around in professional and academic settings for a while, but it was when I was a kid that we collectively decided that these things were going to be useful and that, therefore, we ought to train children properly on them.

Like many other kids, I had computer literacy and typing classes in elementary and middle school back in the 90s. These days, a lot of schools have stopped teaching it because they assume that children are already computer literate. That’s crazy, of course; most kids these days are on phones, not computers, and they can’t type worth anything.