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>And laptops have been the norm. It's a little different when you were accustomed to go back to your dorm room where you had your desktop setup to get anything
by magduf 7y ago
>And laptops have been the norm. It's a little different when you were accustomed to go back to your dorm room where you had your desktop setup to get anything done.
This isn't quite right: before having your desktop computer in your dorm room was normal, you had to go to a computer lab to get anything done, and those had no privacy whatsoever. Computer labs with PCs were quite common until colleges started requiring students to buy their own PCs, and before this, the computer labs had terminals (like VT100) which connected to VAX servers or mainframes.
Anyone who went to college up until the mid-1990s should be familiar with computer labs.
- loco5niner 7y ago> computer lab to get anything done, and those had no privacy whatsoever. My computer lab in college had a lab monitor who enforced the "library quiet" culture. It was nice.