me in 2000: oh boy! all this computering i'm doing isn't wasted time at all - someday, this'll be a career for me!
me in 2016: oh god damnit, i was lied to by a conspiracy of software companies to believe that bullshit. there wasn't a dime to be had in "knowing how to plug in a hard drive"
me in 2023: oh shit. all the other people who got lied to will now pay me to put computers together on camera so they can all strive to remember 2000. oh god oh fu