Posted by admin in To those of you who are of the…younger generation…you probably don’t remember a time in your lives without a computer, and possibly, you can’t remember a time without internet access. (The day your DSL went out for 12 hours doesn’t count.)
As for me, I remember taking an elective computer course in the 8th grade, where we learned how to do the most basic programming, line by line. I didn’t get online til 1997 when I was a stay at home mom awaiting the birth of my 2nd child. Our first computer was a hand me down from a relative, and it was all of 1.5 GB of hard drive. I remember seeing new Gateways with a 6GB hard drive and thinking you couldn’t EVER fill that up.
The point of all this? That little thing we know as the internet is turning 25 this month. From software created in a college dorm room (Napster) to internet access paid by the hour (AOL), it’s been a run ride. Thanks, internet! I love you.
I can’t believe the Internet is 25 years old!!! I totally got into it late (like 1998-99 late), but now, like you, I can’t imagine what I’d do without it.
I actually brought an electronic typewriter to college with me and I was considered one of the most tech savvy chicks in my dorm.
When I was growingup, we had a little Apple 2c and it had no internal hard drive. You ran programs off floppies and if I wanted to save something I had to use a second external drive. We did dial up bulletin boards locally, though. My dad worked for the Patent Office and designed their first computer system, so we were an early model geek family.