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I have always loved techie stuff… I have had a PC in my home way before they ever called them PC’s. In the summer of 1991 Gateway, shipped in BIG black and white cow boxes, delivered my first in-home computer. It did virtually nothing by today’s standards and cost me $2,500 plus $50 in shipping for the privilege. But I was so excited! No one else I knew owned a real computer, let alone had one in their kitchen! I started off back in the 70’s (yes, I am that old) working on computers that took up whole, very cold (they had to be kept at 68 degrees) rooms. We keypunched stacks and stacks of cards that told it what to do… which wasn’t much. This one generated checks for school-district employees and some reports… all printed out on those continuous sheets of paper that had the holes on the side we would have to tear off by the barrel-full. Come to think of it even my printer at home had that kind of paper for years! High tech huh? LOL Slowly we got to do more on our computers. I remember being scared to upgrade my processer (from 25 to 50 whoohoo) and ram. All we could originally do is communicate with B&W BBS’s run mostly by the guys in local college dorms, swapping “shareware.” From there we moved up to the big time and Prodigy. It was a flat rate but nothing was real time… bulletin boards were all the rage! I remember discovering IRC! Inter-relay chat for those that missed that era. We could actually talk, well type, to anyone, anywhere in the world! It was exciting! I remember my niece coming for Christmas day that year and being amazed that I could let her talk to people in her own city in Germany! She chatted all day, constantly asking me how much this must cost. She couldn’t believe that this marvelous tool was all included in one price. It was fun letting her connect with her people from home. I spent a lot of time then helping out companies like iVillage in their infancy. I recall having them call me one time and hearing all the New York City street sounds in the background; sirens, traffic and whistles. I asked the gal that was my contact with the company why I was hearing all that and learned they worked out of a storefront with no air-conditioning so they had all the windows open! iVilliage sure has come a long way! Fast forward to 2011 and I am still amazed at all the technology available today. We own a multitude of them, the latest being our iPad 2 and iPhone 4 (no, wasn’t lucky enough to upgrade to the Siri-model since I had to buy a new iPhone just this May). I just ordered a Kindle Fire for our son for Christmas and am getting ready to upgrade all our Apple products to the new iOS 5 this afternoon. The Apple Store is DOWN? What do you mean DOWN??? The more things change… the more they stay the same… don’t you agree?
