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Elidrake24 • today at 1:35 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The lack of experience in a child can lead to some funny situations. I want to say this happened in first grade or so, had a teacher, Mr Macintosh, who had several of his own Mac computers available in his classroom, and Kid Pix was loaded up on them (amongst other classics of the time). I was obsessed, particularly with the Bomb, thought it was just the coolest way to clear the screen, this ostensibly serious concept of a program made fun.

I also had difficulty connecting with my classmates, combination of untreated ADHD, and issues at home. For some reason I got it into my head that the bomb was cool, so if I told the others I had a bomb in my backpack I'd be cool! This was very shortly after the Columbine massacre, and of course the policy at that moment was to immediately call in the police. They talked with me, impressed upon my young mind the seriousness of such claims, and we all thankfully just moved on.

Odd to think back on now.


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Waterluvian • today at 2:16 PM

The bomb was awesome. I loved how you could pause it and start another to create really cool moire-like patterns.

I remember kids maxing out the sound on the Performas until the teacher got justifiably annoyed.

idontwantthis • today at 3:32 PM

This triggered a memory for me: I’m pretty sure we weren’t even allowed to click the bomb in first grade for the same reason.

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