I mean, yeah, it’s useful for computer science students, but remember that just about everyone has to do things like write papers. If you don’t have a computer, you’re stuck doing everything in a computer lab somewhere.
Not to mention spreadsheets for various fields, a bunch of engineering stuff. Email is a common communication mechanism. College dorms were one place where you were likely gonna have fast Internet access.
Obviously laptops haven’t existed forever. But was there ever a time when large quantities of college students had their own PCs?
Laptops followed on the tail of home PCs pretty closely. I don’t recall a time when PCs were ubiquitous at colleges and laptops were not.
Late 90s, sure.
I mean, yeah, it’s useful for computer science students, but remember that just about everyone has to do things like write papers. If you don’t have a computer, you’re stuck doing everything in a computer lab somewhere.
Not to mention spreadsheets for various fields, a bunch of engineering stuff. Email is a common communication mechanism. College dorms were one place where you were likely gonna have fast Internet access.
When I went to college, 100% of students had PCs, and almost nobody had a laptop.
By my last year, there were more laptops around.
2001-2005