one of the pleasures of the 1990s was for your parents to get a computer and brag to everyone how good their kid is at the computer, and then ask you why you like the computer so much, and tell you to get off the fucking computer every day until you moved out

My parents were heroes for buying that first computer and then gracefully resigning themselves to not quite understanding what I do forever after.

or refuse to get a second phone line; only to yell at you to get off the computer and interrupt your downloading (RIP dialup isp minute allotment) or head-to-head matches by leaving the handset off the hook

I was that parent! Now I spend too much time on the computer.

And then you get a job in computers and your parents call you for computer advice until your dying day.

That's right

My parents were not thrilled when they discovered how much my pirated Adobe premiere 6.0 was supposed to cost lmao

Yeah but I never did get that Dell

I feel seen...

I was constantly hunting down AOL disks for more hours online. I needed the hours man!

1982 but still very yes