• tal@lemmy.today
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      9 months ago

      There was a point when laptops were uncommon, and a point prior to that when they didn’t exist.

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          9 months ago

          Late 90s, sure.

          I mean, yeah, it’s useful for computer science students, but remember that just about everyone has to do things like write papers. If you don’t have a computer, you’re stuck doing everything in a computer lab somewhere.

          Not to mention spreadsheets for various fields, a bunch of engineering stuff. Email is a common communication mechanism. College dorms were one place where you were likely gonna have fast Internet access.

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      Not really. I was in college in the early to mid 90s. One of my fellow CS students had a NeXT cause he was loaded but the rest of us just used the computer labs.