When did the cool kids discover computers?
It’s not that computers just spontaneously became “cool”, it’s that computers started being able to do more social things. Yeah, this was going to be my point too. ‘Nerd’: poor social skills, quiet, shy, willing to spend hours of free time alone typing in pages of BASIC code from 101 BASIC Computer Games ‘Cool Kid’: good social skills, popular, outgoing, willing to spend hours of free time hanging out in Yahoo! chat rooms You can still use computers for solitary activities (*cough*), but they have also evolved to very efficiently serve the needs of more social types, especially the young folks.
