It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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Came here to say this. I am one of the oldest people you’ll ever meet that learned how to read on a computer. My parents bought me reader rabbit in the mid 90s and I played the shit out of it lol.

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Mid 90s…and you think you’re among the oldest to learn reading via pc? Wouldn’t you be roughly 30ish today?

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1994 was 30 years ago. They’re likely to be in their mid 30s to mid 40s, depending on why they used the computer.

In my school the kids who had trouble reading in their teens had additional lessons on the computer to help their reading, and the rest of us had occasional reading lessons on the computer when we were about ten years younger. This was the 80s and 90s in the UK

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1992 was 32 years ago, but mid-90s could be anything from 1992-1997.

Born in 92, reading text via pc by 94.

32 is still 30ish.

I fail to see how they would be mid 40s. I was born in 83, meaning I’m 41, so not even yet mid 40s. I was reading by the mid 80s.

Unless you think he was 10-15 before he learned to read.

I mean I can see the case for mid 30s, which still falls under 30ish, but mid 40s???

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33 as of last month. My father bought a windows 95 computer and bought me a bunch of reading software. Sure there were older educational reading software, but computers weren’t mass market until the mid 90s with windows 95 as far as I’ve read.

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