It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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    1992 was 32 years ago, but mid-90s could be anything from 1992-1997.

    Born in 92, reading text via pc by 94.

    32 is still 30ish.

    I fail to see how they would be mid 40s. I was born in 83, meaning I’m 41, so not even yet mid 40s. I was reading by the mid 80s.

    Unless you think he was 10-15 before he learned to read.

    I mean I can see the case for mid 30s, which still falls under 30ish, but mid 40s???

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      10 days ago

      Mid 90s is 94 to 96, not most of the decade. Most people don’t start reading as soon as they’re born, they usually wait a few years ;)

      As I already said though I knew a few people who were in their teens in the mid 90s who were using computers to learn to read. They were my age, and are in their mid 40s now.

      I can’t speak for anywhere else, but in my little corner of Wales, we didn’t have computers in junior school (the school we attended until we were 11), and there were no computers in our classrooms in the comprehensive school (11 to 15 or 18, depending on whether you did your A levels). There was a computer class, and a handful of computers in the school library. The kids who were missed by the teachers and who were found to not be able to read were given extra lessons to learn.

      I doubt that OP was in a situation like that, but it’s not overly unlikely.