>>60505When I was a child, I was given a small geographic globe. I didn't understand what it was, but I knew a little bacause i see it in television. When I realized that this small thing represented miles and miles of our planet, I was amazed and ended up with an unstoppable curiosity about everything. Books helped, but the internet enhanced it even more. Just imagine a nerd with an interest in the lore of The Lord of the Rings or Warcraft—that's pretty much how I was with the subject.
I was quite lonely kid, so I ended up living in my ivory tower, wanting to explore and learn things.
Games like AOE sparked my interest in human history, wars, tech, religion, cultures and notable figures although the game is not very accurate with the story and these topics bacause gameplay-wise thing.
The flash games of the old internet ended up making me curious about physics and a lot of things, even though those games simulated gravity that was clearly not real around things, body, ragdolls, weapons, guns, nature etc.
Minecraft and other survival games ended up making me curious about the material-chemical properties of things.
Encarta sparked my curiosity about topics that still interest me today.
I think i was more like a child learning and becoming curious about things and humans, although I did learn a little English by playing. I think I learned quite a lot of words and things playing Poptropica and other browser games.
IRC chat rooms (yes, it sounds old-fashioned) and games partly enabled me to chat with strangers, although I never used popular social media platforms for anything other than games.
Most of the updated or new information on things was in English, so I ended up learning a little English just to find out more (I used to visit cartoon channel websites just to see how the cartoons were getting worse and worse to a point of becoming ugly cal arts) Something similar happens with academic and medical texts.
I think I was always lucky to be able to see that the world was much bigger than what I could see on a daily basis unlike other children.
You know, some people are born and die in the same city where they were born and never leave or see the world beyond the panoramic view or small-dome-view that surrounds where they live. The world seems very small when you are a child.
They don't even know or care what was ha
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