024 Oh, wow – where to begin.
I was working at the time the first computers hit the market, I believe 1979 or 1980. The large company I was with immediately installed them and trained us on the job and paid for us to attend classes. Initially, it was just a challenge and necessary, but as it rapidly added bells and whistlesbeyond what I ever could have imagined. I am hooked and have had a home PC since IBM came out with them in the early 80’s. I was paid well at to type manuscripts for university professors to supplement my income because not that many people were into computers at that time. Now there is outsourcing. How times and technology have changed!!
Now, everything is so quick with a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips. I will actually go to google and ask such things as, “how to clean a silk lampshade” , “how to grow dill” ??? Because of email, I find I do not make as many phone calls or write as many letters which I really don't think is all that good, but oh so convenient. However, it is wonderful talking with my 3 children and seeing them on the webcam as we talk. Downside is looking over my shoulder for the bad boys: hackers, spammers, etc.
I now read newspapers online of which I was a subscriber(except The Sun) .
I spend way too much time on the PC -- Learning, researching, exchanging photos, chatting with friends, and best of all, being on TOTV. What did I ever do without it? I am totally lost if it goes down.
Going a day without a PC is like, say, going without drinking a glass of water or having that first beautiful cup of coffee in the morning and, more importantly, not being able to log onto TOTV.
And how would we have met each other without our PC's.
