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There's an entire YouTube genre devoted to "kids react to random technology from the 80's or 90's"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xKJrF0TNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7zM3qWXOto

And the most topical one:
What do kids make of a Comodore 64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PugNyhBGPE

(clip was from 2013, when the Comodore turned 30).

The one thing that hasn't changed is the graphing calculator.  My son's TI-84 is functionally indistinguishable from my TI-85 from the mid-90's, down to the same crappy screen and relative lack of responsiveness, at a time when my phone can run R.

Turns out there is a reason:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967382...since-1994

BC

[BostonCard]

There's an entire YouTube genre devoted to "kids react to random technology from the 80's or 90's"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xKJrF0TNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7zM3qWXOto

And the most topical one:
What do kids make of a Comodore 64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PugNyhBGPE

(clip was from 2013, when the Comodore turned 30).

The one thing that hasn't changed is the graphing calculator.  My son's TI-84 is functionally indistinguishable from my TI-85 from the mid-90's, down to the same crappy screen and relative lack of responsiveness, at a time when my phone can run R.

Turns out there is a reason:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967382...since-1994

BC