This is my first real blogging experience. I have done a small amount of blogging before on the social networking sites MySpace and Facebook, but nothing like this before. Some friends of mine have done more extensive blogging however, including on Blog Spot.
So far in class, we have discussed the history of technology. Personally, I find this information to be quite interesting. It is nice to know what my tech friends have been talking about for all of these years! It is amazing to me how much technology has shaped our society. If it weren't for all of those pioneers, we wouldn't have the quality of life that we have today. There wouldn't be iPods, cell phones, computers, television, dvd players, or any of the other things that we take for granted every day. Computers in particular have changed the way that business is done, how we learn in school, communication with friends and family, the way that we receive and share news and events, and pretty much every other facet of our lives.
It is unimaginable to me now how I used to have to pour through the limited resources offered at the library, taking hours of research to glean the slightest bit of information to write papers. I started high school in 1990 (yes, I am 33 for those doing the math!), and we had one room with about 20 computers in it at that time. My early expossure consisted of learning how to type. Now, 20 years later, we litterly have the world at our finger tips!
The computers that we had in our classroom back in those days were Apple IIe's, and looked like this:
It is amazing to me how far computing has come since those days!
Hello I think it is amazing how primitive computers used to be, and how far they have came along. I wonder what life would be like if we still had to use those types of computers today.
ReplyDeleteI love the picture. It is crazy that the internet has made people lean away from libraries! There isn't anything that you could not find on the internet, and when it fails you for what you wanted, you can reserve your books online or just purchase them! Also when you mentioned how many computers your school had, there is now talk about having everything (like books and lectures) all on the computer. and in school's now they have tons of computers!
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