Technology has not always been a part of my life. Its hard to remember days without computers, ipods and many forms of technology. When I was young I remember going to the computer lab in elementary school and the computers were large, very simplistic, and not very colorful like the current day computers. Then I have been lucky to have a computer in my house for as long as I can remember. My dad was very into computers and technology and worked for IBM, so we had a computer early on. There were the days of dial-up Internet connections and the days when the computer and the phone were on the same line. Dial-up connections took soo long. These were also the days of desktop large computers and floppy disks. I used floppy disks to save all my information. Now we use flash drives or cds. Now everyone in my family and house has their own laptop computer and we only have one desktop computer; which isn't used very often. My parents pay their bills and reconcile their check book through the computer and use quicken. Very rarely do we write checks by hand they are usually printed from the computer. The days of cords plugged in to the computers for the internet and printer are no longer in existence. The only cord plugged in is the power cord. Our printers are wireless as well as our internet. I have a large screen laptop as well as one of the mini netbooks as well. To sign into my laptop swipe my finger on the fingerprint sensor and it signs me in; rather than using a password.
Music has changed drastically too....Now I have thousands of songs on my ipod instead of having 100s of cds. When I was young cars had cassette or tape players in them and now they are nonexistent. Books were on tape and now you can get them electronically and read them on a kindle or the Internet. Tvs car color and now HD pictures. I can't imagine life without a tv. When I was young all my movies were VHS, now we have progressed to DVDs and Blueray DVDS.
Cell phones have really progressed in my lifetime. When I was young, my Mom had a car phone...it was screwed into the car and was large like a house phone with a cord and all. Then it was large cellphones that were big and bulky.
Many people rely on GPS' to get around and get directions. The days of maps and google maps are slowly drifting away.
I have been around the computer since the age of 5, but it wasn't until I entered third grade that my family got their first desktop. Though I don't remember the days without computers, I do rememeber the days when there weren't cell phones, digital cameras, and dvd players. I also rememeber those large simple IBM computers because those were the first ones I was introduced to. Today, like you I have become part of our technologically advanced society and I am fine with that.
ReplyDeleteWow, it's so crazy! I remember when my mom had a car phone with the wire too! Now, we can access our e-mail and do mostly anything on our cell phones. Your blog really got me to think about everything that has changed drastically. It's even mind boggling that students these days are playing the Wii in gym class- what happened to volleyball? Technology is very different from when we were kids, I can't imagine to see what my students and children of my own have access to!
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