I'm 43. Here's me in 1983 with my first computer at age 11. I
   got to play Zork, War Games was favorite movie. They called me
   Whiz Kid. Ran rings around the teacher in Computer classes in
   1986, got online in 1989 and never looked back. I watched the
   world become "nerds like me" after going through the period
   where simply having a computer and watched most this boy's
   dreams about The Future come true, although I'm still waiting
   for a LOT OF stuff that that boy down there was thinking about
   while teaching himself BASIC. [you never forget your first]

   I breath computer and I breath Internet; Part my intuition.

   At present I can fix any computer, I know what a smartphone is
   doing while it's doing it, I see every letter I type traveling
   across the 'net and all of their connections in an ongoing mini
   movie that plays as I type... visualize the electrons doing
   their thing in what certainly feels like real time, although my
   cogsci knows all about the time delays between reality and our
   perceptions of such...

   Computer Science at college was learning future AI theory,
   limitations of neural networking and where it might go,
   complexity theory and chaos theory in 1990/91 at College among
   other things,

   I knew people just like that - the ones that hadn't worked on
   computers in 3 years - - Pure Computer Science. They could tell
   you how to build a computer out of toothpicks and gumballs after
   waking them up in the middle of the night yet they didn't care
   much for actual computers because they "just weren't there yet"
   - their expectations of computers were more advanced than
   anything then, or even now 25 years later.

   To see the same kind of respect and love for our predecessors
   from someone who was born while my modem was making its very
   first 300 bps squeaks into an unknown world...

   someone with the same kind that I have for systems and
   processes... writing words I could have written... was a really
   nice thing to wake up to and see.

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   I'm responding mostly from the entusiasm of this boy down below.
   In a strong sense, he's really the one that was impressed,
   looking up to a version of his future self, someone of like
   mind, and hoping one day to be as smart as all that.