blogging all night long
Crap! I can really see how people could totally stay up all night just blogging. This is the crazy thing with cyberspace... People are on it 24-7! Don'tcha wanna say to people sometimes, "Just go to bed! Cyberspace will be there in the morning!" When the reality of it is, there just isn't enough time in the day to do it all. This is why people blog all night long? Can anyone really know everything that's on the world wide web?! I think not. Keep dreaming, all you overambitious folk.
Has anyone ever thought of what life would be like without the internet? Well, I remember what that was like. My mom didn't get a VCR until I went to college in 1996. We were lucky to have a computer in 1993-4. Internet? Websurfing? That was all taboo. All I remember hearing was that there was a lot of porn on the internet, so I shouldn't go on it. The only thing I knew about computers at that age was that it was good for writing papers and it took a year and a day to print your paper out. It seems like kids nowadays go from the womb to a mac or pc. They'll never know what it was like NOT to have a computer or the internet and I find that fascinating. I guess that's a good thing, but for pete sakes, don't just blog all night long! There are other things to do like (no, not check e-mail, or pay your bills online, or even shop for groceries via freshdirect.com) go outside and take a walk!
posted by suekaelin @ 12:21 AM
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My earliest memory of a computer is playing duck hunt on an incredibly old school apple in my computer class in second grade... then there was the oregon trail game which was unbelievable! When we finally got a pc at home at were able to hook up to AOL I remember the endless amount of time sitting there and waiting to be able to log in and communicate with whoever was online - there was no such thing as leaving aim on for all day long because you paid for aol for the amount of time that you used it. I remember the days of typing in a web address that ended up being something totally off and ended up showing up as pornography and trying to click it off without seeing too much or having my parents walk in to find the screen frozen and lord knows what flashed on the screen... good old days? hah! Never in a million years did I think I would be designing a website but here we are - Here's to 'technology applications in education' and the theories that come with it!
Oh, OREGON TRAIL! Takes me back to fifth grade...things seemed so much simpler then. I remember getting the first family computer...a Commodore 64. Sort of sounds like the name of a rock or punk band. And it used floppy disks. Really FLOPPY disks...not the 3 1/4 disks we are so familiar with. And trying to log onto that thing was nothing short of brain science.
Its funny this topic comes up, as I was discussing it with one of my RA's the other day...how we have become SO INCREDIBLY dependent on computers. We don't handwrite anything anymore. We don't draw. We don't pick up the phone, and all too often, we don't have face to face interactions...and for those of us Higher Ed. people that have Residence Life experience...its incredibly difficult to work with students who have minimal social skills because rather than talking to someone in person, they e-mail, IM, or avoid the issue altogether. Sure, technology is amazing, and I can't imagine my own life without my laptop. But for some, their life IS their laptop. And that is a little disconcerting.
We used a TI and a televeision screen in 4th grade (I can't subtract that well, I'm not sure what year it was) to type out code in BASIC that would promt a printout of micky mouse in 'x's. And it was really cool and exciting. And it was the only thing we could do with it. All year long. By the end of the year we would see who was the quickest typing out the code from memory. Oh those were the days!
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