Growth of Linux
A few years ago, the odds of switching on a personal computer and seeing Windows 95 boot were staggering. The idea of a graphical user-interface that let’s you manage your computer by dragging things around and dropping them elsewhere was shocking to the average person – not to mention the idea of owning your own computer! Linux was a whisper on the wind back in those days, as the skill level required to successfully administer it (not to mention installing!) in vanishingly short supply.
The scene has since changed considerably. Where back in the early to mid nineties most users in South Africa didn’t even know of Google’s existence, nowadays you’ll find children in disadvantaged areas plying a master’s hand at googling (ahem, searching) for research or simply to sate their curiosity! Owning your own computer is no longer anything astonishing. Most kids know how to connect computers over a network, wired or not, a skill books have been written about, and not of the ‘for dummies’ flavour!
This new breed of geeks handle any computer with an air of confidence and are often able to achieve very technical things with no more than a general idea of how it should work when they begin.
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