Also born in the 90s, I feel like we were the last generation to grow up with technology advanced enough to be useful/educational but not yet so heavily DRM-ed

Also born in the 90s, I feel like we were the last generation to grow up with technology advanced enough to be useful/educational but not yet so heavily DRM-ed and Ad-optimized as to be effectively manipulative to us as children. This made the era amazingly fruitful for growing new developers (biased view but this is the orange site); as another piece of anecdata I have a sister who was born just after 2000 and she's plagued by every type of social disorder known to the world. She's expressed interest in doing things like running a linux OS, but her laptop's secure boot and lack of MBR support meant she had to learn to create an efi partition first! It was tough trying not to flood her with 2 decades of history while letting her explore.