Comment by mike_hearn

Yeah, true, it probably helps to have grown up alongside the tech itself.

I'm not sure it was more accessible though. Learning programming back then was really hard. Nothing was user friendly and achieving even simple tasks like drawing a diagonal line might require you to sit down and learn Bresenham's Algorithm (from the books neither you nor your library had copies of, naturally...). So it was easy to get discouraged. You can get fun and relevant results much faster now.