Blog Entry #5

The first experience I had with a computer. That one is tough. I can't recall the very first time I used a PC but I can remember a couple times from early in life. I remember my mother coming home one day after school bearing a large box. I had used a computer in school by then (playing Oregon Trail in kindergarten and the like) but this was the first computer that my family owned. It was an old model that ran the original windows. I remember playing all kinds of games on that PC: The Amazing Spiderman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, We're Back A Dinosaur Story, real classic stuff.

The thing I remember most about my early experiences with computers though, is getting on the internet for the first time. Even at a young age, probably no more than eight, realizing the limitlessness of it all. Anything you could ever want to know, just type it in and hit enter. Before that it was books, dictionaries, encyclopedias. If you wanted information you actually had to go look for it. Now it's anything anytime anywhere. Maybe it has made us all lazier, but I'd like to think it makes us all a bit smarter. At least, we all now have the potential to be much more intelligent than generations before us. But we have to utilize the resources we have wisely.