I have a lot of fond memories and appreciation attached to software like this. I only realized that when I spoke with somebody who made a point that's stuck wit

I have a lot of fond memories and appreciation attached to software like this. I only realized that when I spoke with somebody who made a point that's stuck with me for years now; when he was young, his dad installed something comparable to GCompris on the family computer, and although he only has faint memories of it, he remembered activities of simply clicking balloons to pop them, and typing simple words. Only when he was a teenager did it truly make sense to him why his dad installed the software, or why anybody had thought to make it; simply using a mouse and keyboard came to him from those early childhood experiences that he could barely remember, and the revelation came when he saw people his age struggle with basic computer input. He would eventually move on to Starcraft scripting, and then to video game modifications, and then to a career in programming, but all of that was enabled by just popping a balloon on a screen. Plenty of people can use a computer, and click things, and type things on a keyboard, but ever since hearing that anecdote, I realized how many people are just "getting by" in that department. Since my early childhood, I could count my daily misclicks on one hand, but that doesn't seem to be the reality for most people. Thinking about it, a Sesame Street game that I have very little recollection of could be a huge part of how I use a computer today, and that thought makes me hugely appreciate what programs like GCompris do.