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by Swizec
3556 days ago
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1995 was such a weird year. My biggest dream was to have a computer at home. Didn't even know yet that internet was a thing that existed. Then around 1997, the internet was something that you went to the library to use. And we finally had a computer at home. I remember how long it took us to figure out that the mouse tail should point up, not down. |
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I did buy an Atari 2500St for college, and didn't tell anyone. I felt like I was cheating.
While all the other students were griping about typing, or paying a typist; I just hit print.
My girlfrined in college hated the "thing". Yes--she called it the "thing". "Leave that thing alone."
She is now a millionaire, and head of technology at some company.
After college, I bought a small electronic typewritter, that did word processing.
I hated everything about computing, besides word processing, and didn't see the need for a computer if I wasen't in school.
Plus, I tried programming, and I Knew I didn't want to spend my life in front of a screen, for anyone, for any amout of money. I hated those 500 page computer programming phone books. I just hated computing on so many levels, it's ironic now.
I honesly didn't get the magic in programming until later on--a lot later on. Well that Atari went right into the garbage in the 90's. Yes--ouch! I so wish I had it now.
I don't think people realize, in the 90's, it was really a gamble if the average person would buy a computer, even a GUI based system. Some people just hated everything about them. They were just so unsexy. So dry to many of us. So boring. So tedious, and never seemed to just work.
I had a friend remind me in the 90's computing is an art too. He is now a multimillionaire. We worked at a chit job, and his friend's said, "My dad is willing to invest in a gaming company for us. Do you want to join?" He did have to think about it. In a few years he was set for life. He didn't ask me to join them, but I probally would have turned the offer down. I idnt get games, nor did I think the business would last more than a few months. Awe--again, so wrong!
My mom was one of the first to buy a used blue Mac, and she loved every thing about it. It was then, I knew they would be big, and I was so wrong. I figured if she was willing to try them, they are making strides, at least Apple.
I still didn't find the magic in computing/programming until about 15 years ago--sadly.