Well, it’s easy… just be born in the early 80s and grow up with home micros!

I am still more inclined to follow the “old Linux nerds rulebook” and keep recommending to learn LaTex ;-)

It was not my first (this would have been the Atari 2600), but the console that still has a very special place in my heart is the Atari Jaguar

What about a trip into the smol-web? Perhaps a Gopher or Gemini Server? A IRC Bouncer? Or enter the fascinating world of telnet BBS systems!

Dead broke son of a low middle class family. …in a western country, especially in the US.

Yeah, that IS inherited privilege. You realize, that a low middle class american family is still in the uper ~ 10 % of currently living humans?