1st Computer Experiences

My first experience with any type of computer was from my brother. We got a computer when I was around nine years old. He taught me how to play Wheel of Fortune, Oregon Trail, Pinball, Solitaire, Hearts, and all his boyish games. We always had fun competing with each other on Oregon Trial to see who could get the longest along in the game. Also I used the note pad and paint art. Paint art was my favorite because you could use all kinds of different tools to paint different shape, sizes, and figures. I loved listening to CD’s too. When we didn’t have iTunes to listen to, we just put in a CD.
We used computers all though out school but, I would have to say I had experience with the Internet around the time I was entering fifth grade and that was probably my first real experiences with the Internet. Since we live out in the country the Internet wouldn’t run out our road so we never had it until recently. We had to make do with what we had. When entering middle school I always went to the county library to do all my work. I believe the computer they had at the library was Gateway, but I wouldn’t quote me on that. When I made new friends in middle school I would go over to there house, we would play on the computer for hours and get on chats and talk to everyone we could. It was almost like, let us see how many people we can talk to on here. AOL instant messaging was hot stuff back in the day. Instead of calling people we would talk to them online and we thought that was amazing. For a while we only had dial-up so we knew better than to call one another, we would just get on line and talk. We always wondered how that actually worked; we were so amazed that you could talk to someone like that.
Instead of using USB drive we all had that really big floppy disk before internet was even invented. It wasn’t until maybe ninth grade or even high school years when they came out with “CD ROM”. It’s amazing how they keep making things smaller and smaller. When they came out with the colored smaller floppy disk I thought I had to have some, that they were the coolest. Now that make disk any way you want them, just about.
It was so upsetting and nerve racking when your computer would crash right before you were about to save your work or during any moment, and it still is. Sometimes I remember getting so frustrated that I wanted to throw the computer through the window, it still happens. I’m pretty sure that happens to everyone at some point. I never really got into downloading music, until recently I’ll download a song every now and again to put on my ipod. That about my entire computer experience that I have so far. I hope to expand and grow in my computer knowledge and skills