An Incredible journey.
Thinking back on the time when I was clueless about computers and the Internet and how I got started:
10 years ago my hubby and I got our first computer and we were both greenhorns. Our grown son set the contraction up for us and gave us rudimentary lessons about how to use it. In demonstrating the wonder of this (new to us) technology he typed into a search engine "lemon and sex" as an example of how much information was out there in cyber land.:)lol He got hundreds of web sites and I thought it was incredible. For instance here is one site that appeared.
"Lemon Cake
This is my lemon version of the famous Better Than Sex Cake. ... Cover cake with cool whip mixture and arrange 24 lemon "fruit slice" pieces on top.":)
I took to the computer like a duck to water and my first venture online was to a Chat Room. Humm I thought, I will never be able to chat with a hunt and peck typing system. So I forced my fingers and brain to remember my typing skills from 50 plus years ago and soon I was "chatting away" fluently without looking at the keyboard
I have tried many games like Hold 'em Poker on Yahoo and Scrabble and a form of Scrabble, "Bookworm. For awhile I was entertained with blackjack on Yahoo and also the Yahoo current events chat rooms. Other activities includeded "Groups" that I participated in later forming my own group.Also email, research, current events and political blogs and many other blogs. Finally about two years about I took the plunge and started this blog.
I now concentrate mainly on reading and commenting on the many "Elder Blogs" which I found links to on Ronni Bennett's excellent blog, Time Goes By"
I cannot imagine a time without the computer and the windows on the world this technology provides.The access to newspapers and even radio from all over the world, the instant news,and all the information at my fingertips is still a wonder to me.
How long have you been online and what started you on this incredible journey?
posted by Chancy @ 7:38 PM
8 Comments
8 Comments:
Interesting to read about how you started on the Internet. The short version for me, is that my son and his wife replaced their computers and gave me her old one. I'm a newbie user, too, and then became a blogger about a year ago.
I wrote extensively in my blog's beginning posts how I launched accidentally onto the Internet.
I've never visited any chat rooms, or played any games with others on the Internet. I wouldn't know where to go, or how to go about it.
I don't really have time for chat rooms or games with strangers, anyway.
I'm still fumbling through the rare occasions when I use my Google email chat, then only if somebody pops up on my screen, as I don't know how to pop up on somebody else's screen. Haven't had time to read up on the "how to" for that and many other things.
My keyboard skills were still with me, as I had continued using a typewriter with varying degrees of frequency when I went back to school in earlier years,(requiring typed research papers and a thesis,) and for much of my personal correspondence -- exchanging mutual long-g-g letters with friends. The letters took the place of expensive long distance phone calls.
I like blogging but can spend too much time at it, but not enough to do all I would like to do, if that makes any sense. Enjoy reading others blogs, like yours, and the virtual friends I've made.
I enjoyed reading your "Incredible journey." It's always interesting to learn how other people take advantage of the Internet's resources. I was given a computer as a retirement gift 18 years ago, but never did much with it until the Internet developed several years later.
I want to thank you for your regular visits to my blog and your kind comments. You do a good job in massaging my geriatric ego.
I'be been blogging for a little over two years now Chancy....and I just can't imagine life without it either. My daughter, Jory, got me started....officially. She had been urging me to step in the blogging waters. But I was constantly commenting on a lot of blogs I was reading and was getting nudged by some pretty
terrific blogging friends...Ronni Bennett was one of them.
I practically live on this computer in one way or another. I could have never guessed that it would have become such a huge part of my life. Two years ago....and I have never looked back.
My ex-husband was a computer tech for a large company here and they gave us a personal computer way back before the Internet was used by everyone about 1990. He insisted I learn to use it despite my protests. Downloads took forever and we discovered some really fun amateur networks and I wound up addicted and made some great friends with whom I still communicate. I joke that I was on the Internet before Al Gore discovered it! LOL
I first started with computers about six years ago and have learned my way around but nothing very advanced. I use it only for writing and trolling the 'net and other elder blogs. I spend at least four hours before it, then have to take a nap to recover.
I started with a PC when my business partner had four babies in five years and had to leave the business. I couldn't support myself, an office, and a secretary alone, so I moved into my spare bedroom and got a computer. I taught myself the programs I needed from books and loved it. When the Internet came along I first used it for e-mail and to read political news. Then I had a job doing internet research for the state of Alaska.
My daughter has a blog and I started reading hers and then reading other blogs and one day I commented on Robert Brady's blog and Tabor wanted to know why I didn't have a blog and I thought about it, and here I am.
My first computer was a Mac Plus bought secondhand in the ‘80s loaded with primitive drawing, painting and word processing programs. A few newer Mac models later and I was teaching several different programs, including PageMaker. Got on the Internet at work in the early days – it was soooo simple then – no popups, no ads, just info. A job transfer forced me from Mac to PC and is what I use at home. Started blogging about three years ago and now have a wonderful network of net friends all over the world. I’m not up to date on the newer programs, but I have all the technology I need. Wow! I’ve never really thought about this – what a great subject. Thanks, Chancy!
I still marvel at this wonderful age we live in. I got my first computer 11 years ago. I knew nothing!! But like you.. I was very intrigued and quickly came to love it. I started my own web site.. and self taught myself how to do HTML. From there I made the transition to blogging. What I love the most about it all is the venue it has provided to meet so many wonderful people all over the world. You being one of them Chancy. :-)
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