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At the same time: a Raspberry Pi 2 W has more CPU power than all of the machines that I had between 1980 and 1991. The experience is still there. But it is very difficult to take a child from say 'Minecraft' to a blinking cursor on the screen and get them to be interested.
For what its worth, I might be one of the younger folks on the site (currently 18)
I am still glad that children are playing Minecraft. One of the first things that I am really proud of what I did was somehow breaking a nat of an intel tiber (free) vps just so that I can create a minecraft server.
My first thing that I built myself in mc that I still remember is having a piston push a redstone block which pushes another piston and a redstone block (quite complicated overengineering) to basically create a clock to spawn many mobs. I am still proud of it and my brother showed me minecraft and I remember the first time he showed me and I was in awe!
one of the first blogs (or second I think) that I made was about how to self host minecraft using a different technique (there is a plugin)
There are lots of coding/server related things to Minecraft. I think many people got into coding just as much because of minecraft and got into servers because of minecraft server hosting. (It's really popular)
I sometimes get recommended Minecraft Nostalgia videos and man the nostalgia hits so hard.
I understand what you are saying but Minecraft at its core is a simple blocky game that I played with friends.
Yes, It might be hard to care about pixels but also not so much. I still play chess and I can play it on a pixelated screen just as much as on chess.com or lichess.org
One of the first games that I played was pokemon yellow (the OG one), I pirated it and that introduced to the piracy and oh boy, I genuinely believe that it was the reason why I got tech savvy and am learning CS within uni as I did that within 2nd grade.
I have played pokemon yellow, pokemon crystal and all the pixelated games. I love them all and cherish them with nostalgia.
I am more worried about the shorts and reels.
Some comments and stuff that I wrote about similar things:
[An advice for a 15 year old on HN to play minecraft instead of hyperoptimizing for business]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341430
[My pokemon yellow piracy complete story]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663383
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