This is strange to me, I've been using computers since I can remember, but I only very late started to do anything productive with them. I've never had anything I've wanted to keep, I mean sure I now have some scripts that are valuable, but nothing old like that.
It's also so strange when co-workers talk about how their kids are not just playing games but also creating mods for their games. When I was kid I just drew pictures, played with lego and played video games.
Modding games is extremely easy these days. I had to walk uphill both ways through two feet of snow just to get some games to work in the early 90s. Buckets of blood, sweat and tears went into my MajorMUD scripts.
I wonder how much of this is selection bias by media. There are now twice as many human beings on this planet as when we were kids (totally making assumptions about you here, if you don't mind). That means more gifted kids, in addition to our ever more invasive media. Our various feeds are (unfortunately) full of page after page of people talking about the things they think their kids are doing. However I don't think kids today are especially special snowflakes compared to when we were kids. I'm not saying there aren't gifted kids. I just mean it's probably not right or true to say that gifted kids these days are more amazing than gifted kids of yesteryear. And it doesn't help that every parent on the planet sells their kid as a genius. Even the parents of stupid kids.
It's also so strange when co-workers talk about how their kids are not just playing games but also creating mods for their games. When I was kid I just drew pictures, played with lego and played video games.