The first computer we had in the house was white and I remember my mum being excited that it was coming and it would be “connected to the internet”.
I didn’t really know what she meant but she seemed excited. When it came we didn’t really know what to do with it, but we quickly learnt how to use the paint application. Did they call it application then? I can’t remember but we started using that and some of the games. I remember solitaire but that may have been later. I also remember mine ball mine something. Till this day I still don’t know how to play that game. You would click, click, click and then boom you couldn’t click any more or the title bomb would explode and you had to restart.
I remember playing with Microsoft word using the word art. All different font all for us to all settle on times new roman or arial. I also remember a special place being set up for the computer, and I know that to do certain things we would have to connect to the landline and the landline would not be working. Something I know to be dial up. I also remember my grandfather making sure or telling us to be careful.
I don’t think understood the importance of the computer but now I as do my work primarily on a computer from anywhere in the world I see it’s importance. I wonder if that will be the same for AI. I’m older than my mum and dad were when they first got a computer but I wonder if they knew it’s significance or they just thought that a cool gadget to have.
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