Around the same time I was one of the first kids to have a laptop in my highschool and was actually just doing homework on it in studyhall. The proctor was aghast and thought I was going to infect all the school computers with viruses. I tried explaining that I was not even on the school network and she tried to tell me that they could spread through the power supply.
Similar things happened to me. My main takeaway was that these supposed authority figures were so certain about this stuff, and they obviously had zero clue. Made me distrust authority in general for years, which led to several problems.
