Back then we still had fairly 'proper' IT classes at schools, at least here on the UK, so quite a few non-geek (certainly, as I saw myself at that age) kids wou

Back then we still had fairly 'proper' IT classes at schools, at least here on the UK, so quite a few non-geek (certainly, as I saw myself at that age) kids would know at least roughly what binary was. Nowadays, I suspect less so.