Man I was so excited but like many other people I
didn't know anything about them. You probably
have never seen one like I had. It looked like
a medium sized box.
I think it must have come from the stone age,
even the Flintstones have one that is more up
to date than my first one.
I had to have a recorder or one of those old tapes
I think they were called 8 track
tapes or something like that. Anyway, nothing was on
this computer. You had to hook it up to a TV to use it.
This was before Bill Gates saw the potential
and started inventing what we call " windows microsoft".
If you wanted something other than a blank screen you had to
learn the codes to be able to do anything with it.
But I didn't let that stop me. I sat for hours programing
just a few lines. I was learning html, what "strings"
meant and all that other programing stuff.
And wouldn't you know it I forgot to put a tape in so
I had to spend more hours typing in the same code.
My second try was 2 lines of a Christmas song.
I finally got the first verse done and we listened to it.
Needless to say once it came to an end that was it. You
had to start all over again with the codes.
Fast forward to today.....
PCs, Laptops. Ipads, Iphones, etc.
and they made them so easy to use.
I never thought that someday I would have a Laptop(computer)
that I could carry around with me or one that has it's own
screen and is sitting on my desk in the corner of my bedroom.
Things are changing so fast now we can hardly keep up.
A newly purchased laptop is almost obsolete by the time
you get it home.
Just like computers advertising changes from day to day.
Some say social sites are the way to advertise. Some say
the old ways are not getting the results people want.
But I see that even though people want to change to a
better way of advertising, most still rely on the old
ways. We have dozens of other ways to advertise and we
use any we think might work but we always go back to the
first that was ever used.... E-mails...
The newest is now videos and I really will be happy to
see them fade away. Who has the time to listen to how
much a Guru is making every day when it's the HOW we are
all trying to figure out.
Well my dear reader I will shut up and let you ponder
on what new things are in store for all of us in the
future when it comes to PCs and all that other electronic
stuff.
BTW what was your first PC like?
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