I came up around the same time Keren Elazari did and was a fan of the movie Hackers as soon as it arrived in theatres. At the time I did not understand what a hacker was other than a punk kid that was trying to disrupt society. As I got older, and moved away from having to use a library computer to look at web pages, I slowly realized that hacking was something I was interested in. I wasn’t a very good student in high school and was told my junior year I wouldn’t bee able to join the military unless I pulled my grades up. This caused me to pull my grades up my senior year, but lack of motivation kept me out of college. So I ended up serving 20 years in the military, and had a computer or laptop. the entire time. This caused me to learn how to troubleshoot computer problems. This was done through trial and error, I cant even count how many times I have crashed my own computers, by trying to do something I was told I couldn’t. While the media portrays hackers as these super intelligent people, this isn’t always the case, some hackers stumble on to hacks by shear dumb luck. The other aspect to think about is how they portray hacks as taking seconds, when I have sat at a CTF for hours watching people run through code. While the media is slowly catching on and using proper resources, they also have to be careful what they show on screen because that could cause malicious actors to try the same code.