I, too, wrote my first programs on a trash-80, sitting in the store and saving the things to a high-performance cassette drive ;) But I no longer think that's

I, too, wrote my first programs on a trash-80, sitting in the store and saving the things to a high-performance cassette drive ;) But I no longer think that's the thing...the point back then was, to me at least, "here is something big that no one else I know is doing but its so obviously very cool, empowering, and in a way, secret". Nowadays, with so many devices intruding on every aspect of our lives, there is just very little of that secret anymore, and while of course its hard for me to know how modern tech is affecting kids nowadays, I just cannot imagine they can feel the same way as I did, sitting alone in a Radio Shack in 1978, writing BASIC programs in wonderment.