Full circle

I was in middle school in the late 80s and early 90s, in a small town in the Soviet Union. Our school had a computer lab - a real rarity back then. In a class of about thirty, three kids had a PC at home. By sixth grade, those few could type, and the rest learned slowly at school. Twenty years later, in the mid-2000s, things were completely different. In most countries, almost every family had a…