My experience of computers was non existent when I was at college in the ’80’s. I went to an exhibition in a gallery and I remember being faced with a screen that said type ‘hello world!’ Or something similar and you would get a nice surprise.. So I typed:
Hello world
Nothing happened
I typed:
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world…
Over and over, the instructions soon disappeared off the top of the screen. I was frustrated, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to get back to the start. I didn’t know how to scroll back up the screen.
I gave up. Nowhere in the instructions did it say ‘press the enter key’!
It took me a few years before I bothered with a computer again.