Nostalgia

[snellios]

the first personal computer i ever saw was one my mother brought. it was a family christmas present, i think in 1992. To me it was like having a robot in the family.

what was yours like?

i was about 4 years old and i loved it so much omg ♥ We had Lemmings and a cute dinosaur colouring game. I can't remember it's name and that makes me sad

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[paintmarks]

we got our first one when i was REALLY little (maybe 3? 4? possibly a little later)... but the one i remember really buying was a windows 95. it played CDs and i remember my dad showing me how it worked and being totally blown away that it played music. it was so awesome haha. we were still running 98 until 2003 :|

[beyondcrazy4you]

I used to play Lemmings ALL the time. *clings to it*

[zdarlight]

Me too!

My first computer was a family one as well, I can't remember how old I was. It was an ancient old Amstrad (but it felt like the height of technology at the time)

I think we finally got interent in 96-ish? I remember buying a yo-yo off a website, and it never got delivered.

[sideshowkat]

We had a really old one back in 1992 or so. I only used it to play games that we had on floppy disks. The screen was green and I played Wheel of Fortune and Frogger on it. I loved that computer.

The one I used after that for internet purposes was a Compaq laptop with Windows 3.1. I went on AOL all the time with it. Ahh, memories.

[snellios]

I don't remember when we got the internet. It must have been about 1998?

And my mum asked me how much it cost to send an email. ugh good times.

[sideshowkat]

We got it in 1997...I only remember because one of our old AOL names had 97 in it.

Haha, awww.

[snellios]

What even was there to do on the internet? I don't even know - i'm not sure there was anything. It was just the excitement of INTERNET IN YOUR HOUSE, i think lol.

[kittycatness]

In 97, my school had us making Father's Day cards or something. I remember we had just gotten our first computer (Sony Vaio) and it ran Windows 95 and took forever to dial AOL. haha.
I used to draw submarines in Paint and show them to my mum to show to my dad when he got home.

Tech is nice. But human reaction to new technology is to make more new technology to make the old technology obsolete. (See: Sidekick, iPhones, and Blackberries.)

♥

[snellios]

The drive to improve technology is definitely a capitalist venture. But I think the consequence of such a drive is to improve living standards. It is not necessarily the only way to do so, but it does work...

[kittycatness]

True.

It seems like machines are getting smarter, as is a small percentage of the population developing the new "whatever". However, it seems to reduce the need to think.

My cynicism says that graphing will cease to be done by hand in ten years and that no one will bother with large-area printed maps in fifteen years in the US. (I don't know what the standards are like anywhere else. I assume that they're higher in the UK and Europe.)

Too much technology for me.

[snellios]

Yeah, i think you're right, the small percentage developing this software are probably way more intelligent than most other people. (Apparently) the ability to think in different conceptual schemes and apply these across reality is really valuable, hence why some of these people appear so intelligent and creative. like multilingual people (according to McLuhan).

Goleman says we're losing our creativity because we are not required to do or create anything anymore. We just sit and consume information made by other people.

This could be true for some people, but whose creating this information being consumed? Someone is! And like photoshop allows me to be creative when I don't even have the ability to draw a stick cat (seriously).

[morriganangelus]

In December of 1995 my sister bought our first computer. It was a Compaq that had Windows 95 and a 1 gig hard drive. :) We were on AOL all day and night, and it drove our parents bonkers since it was dial-up and we only had one phone line. LOL
I miss that computer. I put that thing through hell and it managed to survive until 2001. :)

[snellios]

I'm still on XP right now. It's weird that it's been around for 7 years. Screw Vista, I'm going to wait for Windows 7.0 in Jan 2010. That's only a year and a bit away. Is Vista even that much better?

[morriganangelus]

My dad bought himself a new computer yesterday that runs on Vista. The few hours I spent on it last night were beyond annoying. It eats so much of system resources that we had to go out today to buy 2 gigs of RAM. I'm so glad that I have XP, the only way I'd give it up is if a MacBook magically appeared in front of me. :)