I was smarter when I was a kid  Back in the early/mid 1990s I
got my first PC, which was an Apple Macintosh. A Performa 637,
if I recall correctly. Being a teenager and into technology, I
was heavily invested in the culture of this computer and became
entranced by the culture of Apple in general. Being invested in
computers back then was still a somewhat rare thing, especially
for a teenager. It was even more rare to be an Apple user. You
mostly faced ridicule from people who used Windows PCs and Apple
was always “dumb” or “going out of business” or some other
negative thing. That opposition usually just cemented the Apple
community as even more devoted, so I became a zealot pretty
quickly.  Despite having no income or even allowance to speak
of, I remember scanning issues of Macworld and MacUser, always
fascinated at all the cool stuff I could get “if only” I could
afford it. I distinctly remember that one of the issues of
MacUser had a gift guide, and one of the suggested gifts was to
buy the Apple fan in y