Assignment #1
Computers & Me
My earliest memories of computers are vague recollections of sitting in front of green and black Apple computer screens playing mind numbing games aimed to teach us mathematics. Needless to say, I did not love this activity and it did not inspire me to dive into the world of computers.
From these bleak early years I graduated up to learning all the ins and outs of word processing. This took place in middle school and I am still scarred from the experience. We had to take a new class now that was to teach us all we could ever need to know about computers. The teacher was a bitch to put it politely. She cared for the computer as if they were her own children and called her students, "dumb-dumbs" or "dummy" in front of the class so they could laugh at what we did not know. It sucked to say the least. I do not remember what brand or models we used only the relief I felt everyday that class ended.
Then in the sixth or seventh grade my best friend had gotten a new computer and had the internet. I remember going over to her house and watching her e-mail and play the newer computer games, one in particular stands out in my mind that I think was called Worms. I really did not use the computer for anything besides typing up assignments for school and using the internet to find the latest pictures of our newest celebrity crushes, sad I know but it is the truth.
Just before starting high school my mom and dad bought our family our first ever computer. It was a Compaq, old, and ugly but it was ours. No more going to my friend’s to wait my turn to use her computer I could now use my very own. I loved it. I played all sorts of computer games, most of which my game-obsessed brother bought, and I was finally given the luxury of doing my homework whenever I found it convenient. This Compaq was on it’s way out when we bought it and we ran it until the technology was far to obsolete to be useful with homework. It helped me begin to actually enjoy all that computers have to offer and for that I am grateful.
My next and as of now most recent escapade in the land of computers was with the purchase of my very own desk top. It is a Dell Dimension 4600C. I paid for it myself and bought it brand new. We finally got the internet and I was in love. I had used the internet before, but it was at school where you could look at the White House’s official site and little else without getting your internet privileges taken away for "wasting valuable class time." Now I could use the internet for my favorite pastime of looking at random sites without having a reason behind my madness. Messing around online is now a favorite pastime of mine. I still have this same PC and use it for word processing, purchasing random items from various online stores, keeping up with the news to some extent, chatting with friends via AIM, finding new recipes (I love to cook), more stuff that I cannot think of at the moment, but mostly I use it to do research for assignments. I hope to soon save enough money to buy a laptop the convenience of which I have grown to love having borrowed one from the same friend who really introduced to computers to begin with.
My earliest memories of computers are vague recollections of sitting in front of green and black Apple computer screens playing mind numbing games aimed to teach us mathematics. Needless to say, I did not love this activity and it did not inspire me to dive into the world of computers.
From these bleak early years I graduated up to learning all the ins and outs of word processing. This took place in middle school and I am still scarred from the experience. We had to take a new class now that was to teach us all we could ever need to know about computers. The teacher was a bitch to put it politely. She cared for the computer as if they were her own children and called her students, "dumb-dumbs" or "dummy" in front of the class so they could laugh at what we did not know. It sucked to say the least. I do not remember what brand or models we used only the relief I felt everyday that class ended.
Then in the sixth or seventh grade my best friend had gotten a new computer and had the internet. I remember going over to her house and watching her e-mail and play the newer computer games, one in particular stands out in my mind that I think was called Worms. I really did not use the computer for anything besides typing up assignments for school and using the internet to find the latest pictures of our newest celebrity crushes, sad I know but it is the truth.
Just before starting high school my mom and dad bought our family our first ever computer. It was a Compaq, old, and ugly but it was ours. No more going to my friend’s to wait my turn to use her computer I could now use my very own. I loved it. I played all sorts of computer games, most of which my game-obsessed brother bought, and I was finally given the luxury of doing my homework whenever I found it convenient. This Compaq was on it’s way out when we bought it and we ran it until the technology was far to obsolete to be useful with homework. It helped me begin to actually enjoy all that computers have to offer and for that I am grateful.
My next and as of now most recent escapade in the land of computers was with the purchase of my very own desk top. It is a Dell Dimension 4600C. I paid for it myself and bought it brand new. We finally got the internet and I was in love. I had used the internet before, but it was at school where you could look at the White House’s official site and little else without getting your internet privileges taken away for "wasting valuable class time." Now I could use the internet for my favorite pastime of looking at random sites without having a reason behind my madness. Messing around online is now a favorite pastime of mine. I still have this same PC and use it for word processing, purchasing random items from various online stores, keeping up with the news to some extent, chatting with friends via AIM, finding new recipes (I love to cook), more stuff that I cannot think of at the moment, but mostly I use it to do research for assignments. I hope to soon save enough money to buy a laptop the convenience of which I have grown to love having borrowed one from the same friend who really introduced to computers to begin with.
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