Ah, the good old automatic information processing class lol.
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Yeah, but I'm glad we're not burning electricity on those anymore. Screensavers were fun at the time, but putting the displays to sleep is the better practice.
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I only miss running down the row and pressing the degauss button on every monitor.
I was more in team starfield and pipes and later flying toasters.
I remember middle school computer class, using Mavis Beacon to learn to type. We had a list of game sites on the board that we were encouraged to check out if we finished our work early. Since we had to be quiet, my friends and I would go on Neopets and message each other from across the room.
I also remember, after having completed the class, the school deciding to update their security and they banned all the sites that were on that board. Such a stupid decision, it's not like kids were on the computers at all unless they had their teachers' permission. There's no way it was interfering with anyone's class time.
I have no idea what subsequent computer classes were to do in their downtime, but I imagine it became a lot harder to keep a class of 12 year olds sitting quietly.