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user-inactivated  ·  4287 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says

Back when I didn't have internet and hell you can only play so much Roller Coaster Tycoon, I a) got extremely good at hearts, b) got extremely good at freecell, and c) drew hundreds of fantasy worlds in paint. Loved paint. A more versatile program has never been created.

Messed around with the command prompt, wrote a hundred pages of a book when I was 12 (password protected ten years ago, god help me, so I can't even read it now), and gained a healthy respect for degaussing.