Growing up with Technology :: Personal Narrative Papers

Growing up with Technology Born in the eighties, I entered a world of big hair and bad style. In the technological realm there were tape make forers, VCRs, and fresh on the market personal computers. Apple was domination the computer scene with their world of the Lisa computer. But not for long, soon computer technology would jump to out of the question heights. As I grew up the technology around me would continue to bewilder and advance quite rapidly I might add. My first see to it with computers (as far as I rouse remember) was when my next door neighbors got their really first Apple. I can remember going over to their firm and begging to play on their computer. All I wanted to play with was the paint-brush program because I thought it was the neatest thing to be able to go along something with your hand and have a picture created for you on the screen fit to what your hand did. It was very cool Then came computer lab i n elementary school. We had to go with our class once a week consume to the computer lab for an hour or two to learn prefatory computer knowledge. I was always one step ahead of my oath students, so in fourth grade my computer teacher asked me to be apart of the computer club. I know that sounds pretty nerdy, but this is how I stayed up to date on the newest computer advancements. After all, I didnt own a computer and I couldnt always go over to my neighbors house all the time. I can still remember the day that my teacher brought in and showed us pack together discs. She acted like they were very expensive and had to be handled with extreme care. I was so scared the first time I held one because she had instilled in us the fear of scratching and messing them up permanently. Once oriented with computer finished my elementary classes and clubs, my family finally got our