Comment by lysace

My dad wanted a computer for the interwebs, at 70ish. I built him a PC and loaded it with the Ubuntu of the day (like 2012). It worked fine.

The previous time he meaningfully interacted with a computer before that was via punched tape containing ALGOL in the early 1960s. (When I first manually "decoded" those tapes 30 years later in the 1990s, it kind of blew my mind. I had just learned Turbo Pascal. Looks very similar at a high level.)