The smart phone generation seem to have lower computer literacy than millennials largely due to smart phones hiding away a lot of the workings. In the UK age verification for adult sites came into force yesterday and like everywhere streaming services are getting very enshittified. This is going to lead kids to discovering tor, VPNs, pirating, how to make deep fakes (to fool ai based age verification), and other ways of getting what they want without restrictions.
I am too. I ran across a yt vid the other day talking about how in the DOS games era apparently there was something called the MT-32, which cost around the equivalent of $2000 USD, but the sound was amazing. Instead of the tinnier output of sound blaster, some DOS games actually had full music tracks in their games.
Still though, think of how much less memorable that sound would be if we didn’t have it.
He goes through and compares PC speaker, Sound Blaster, and MT-32 for a bunch of games like King’s Quest IV, Monkey Island, Space Quest 3, one of the Leisure Suit Larrys, and even an Indy Jones game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14XeuTXwaU