Yeah there was this odd change over. I'm not exactly sure when but probably around the dotcom boom. I remember that if you said you mentioned computers people

Yeah there was this odd change over. I'm not exactly sure when but probably around the dotcom boom. I remember that if you said you mentioned computers people in general would just parrot that back to you in this "nerd" voice as if it was a joke. It was rare to even read about what was happening in the world of computers in a mainstream newspaper. To me, a kid at the time, I felt like I was seeing the gateway to a new kind future unrolling but there was just no way to discuss that with "normal" people at the time. I guess any adult working in that industry would be keen to share that with anyone interested regardless of age because it was all changing so fast and was so damn exciting.