content: ThePirateBay, and not just for movies, TV shows, and music, but for college-level textbooks  I didn't get a broadband connection until I was 12, and the pirate bay was amazing.  oink or what.cd would have been a whole other level of awesomeness, though! I'm 27 and what.cd blows my mind every time I think about it.  general point  RE: your general point; technology education now is not "how much do you know" but "how quickly can you learn". It's not necessarily important whether you have 5 years experience in java since if you've learned plenty of other languages then it's just one more. The corollary to this is that its easy to "bitesize" education to the point people don't learn the fundamentals and then struggle with the changes in content.  It's part of the reason bums on seats as a policy for college level education is such a bad idea. So many colleges complain students arrive without basic literacy and numeracy skills.