The first users of computers _had_ to acquire skills in order to get the machine to do whatever they wanted it to do. If you didn't learn how to use the CLI, yo

The first users of computers _had_ to acquire skills in order to get the machine to do whatever they wanted it to do. If you didn't learn how to use the CLI, you couldn't use DOS, for instance. You needed basic computer skills for doing even the simplest thing (remember how pleasant was installing a CD-ROM driver in MSDOS?). Growing up, I had no internet, and the only stuff I could do with my computer was tinkering, buying books and magazines, and experiment. Nowadays you have the internet and an infinite amount of entertainment coming in as soon as you open a browser, so you don't really get a chance to get bored anymore. Most kids nowadays will grow up with extremely limited machines, like iPads or Chromebooks, so they won't have a chance to do stuff we could do only because our technology was much less sophisticated. Owning a PC is something that's not mandatory anymore in order to do any sort of computing. The newer generations will know very well what a computer does, but will have a much harder time learning _how_ it does it.