They used to be a lot more respected and appreciated before they became everyday items. Now the home PC is merely viewed as another appliance.
Back in the early days of home computing, like when I got my first Amiga, I remember being one of very few people that actually owned my own computer.
Friends would come over and just look in awe at that machine, while our own school had one lone Mac for several hundred students to use.
Back then, you had to know what you were doing to keep one running, regardless of what make or model it was. In the modern age of iPad's that take no skill nor thought to keep functioning properly, computers have sadly just become tools to get things done.
