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You make that sound like it’s a bad thing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/28/...

https://www.computercorps.org/

but I don't think they take old socks.

Our first computer was an MS-Dos machine that our local high school were getting rid of back in 1994. I learned a lot from playing around on the machine, trying to understand the command line.

This is a different time though, computing resources are ubiquitous and cheap. I'm not sure what anyone can do with a 20 year old machine