Write about your first computer.
Before black & orange, we were rolling dices to loading screens.
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DSL of Yesterday
Do you remember the wonder years of venturing to the library to use a computer if you didn’t have one at home? For me, it wasn’t a long walk but nevertheless, it wasn’t worth the effort for a half-hour use time.
You see, this was back in the days before the internet became a seedy place to distribute false information, perform criminal activities, and hide the fact that you might be discovering puberty at a young age from your parents. Remember kids, with great power comes great responsibility.
To give you some insight into the reason why we didn’t have a computer, it wasn’t attributed to discovering puberty. My family was more like the Jackson Five minus the record deal and singing “ooh, child things are going to get easier”, in short, we couldn’t afford to buy a computer. And yes, I know that’s not one of their songs, but it fits the tone of this story, so hush.
Since my parents attended school in the era of “make love, not war”, having something in the house that our parents couldn’t understand how to use was considered witchcraft. However, years later, I hopped into the working force and landed a job that paid slave wages. I manage to save up enough coins to make a purchase on eBay and snag my very first computer. Was I proud of this event? Well…I had to sell my body and time to corporate overlords, so you tell me.
To be technical, I had a computer before, but I don’t count it since it was a hand-me-down, and let’s be frank, no one enjoys using hand-me-downs. It was the bane of a nerd’s existence, all the reasons not to have a computer back in the day, using the phone jack, waiting for a page to load, hearing that god-awful loading sound, and if someone in your house just so happened to pick up the phone, you could call it a day, game over man.
The laptop I purchased was a 2010 MacBook Pro, got it for a decent price, and I waited because technology changes every three years. So it was only a matter of time before the internet horrors of yesteryear became a distant memory. I also made some upgrades to my MacBook and still use it to this day.
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The computing power of yesteryear I have to say my first computer was a commodore 64; it was unbelievably slow, and every program required a 5 1/2 floppy disk. The exciting thing was that by the time I made it to my Senior year of high school, my required TI-86 graphing calculator had more computing power than that desktop I kept limping along for years. I wish i would have realized then the direction technology was going, I may have paid a little more attention to Apple.
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I think you just broke either the internet or my mind when you mentioned floppy disks. Those were the A-tracks of the early computer days.
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