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The next generation...
Someone I met on the misc.kids newsgroup back in the early 90s reports that
her daughter, who recently married, is now pregnant. I don't know what I feel is more ancient, me or the internet! -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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The next generation...
Yeah, I know what you mean. My nieces, who I have watched since birth are
having babies. I thought it was bad enough that they were babysitting for me, but now they are having babies of their own. (sniff) -- Sue (mom to three girls) "Claire Petersky" wrote in message hlink.net... Someone I met on the misc.kids newsgroup back in the early 90s reports that her daughter, who recently married, is now pregnant. I don't know what I feel is more ancient, me or the internet! -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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The next generation...
"Dirk Weber" wrote in message ... Am Freitag, dem 27.10.06, schrieb in .net: I don't know what I feel is more ancient, me or the internet! Yepp. In some news groups People write that their pc is a slow one with only 1 GHz. Reading this I remember the old times (oh where have they gone to?) when we bought our first computer, a 286 with 1 (in words: one) mb of ram and a 40 mb hdd. That's newer than my first PC. It is an Apple ][+, with 64 kB of RAM (including the expansion card), a 1 MHz 6502 processor, and 8 colors on the screen (each pixel, IIRC, showed only half the colors, which made programming interesting). It had both Applesoft BASIC (in ROM) and Integer BASIC (on floppy). I rememeber watching the movie "Apollo 13." I started to laugh when they said that the Apollo spacecraft 1,000,000 bytes of memory. My little PDA (an HP 200 LX) had 1 MB of memory, which was a lot back then (it was in the mid-90s). Soon afterwards we bought our first modem, a 2400 baud modem which opened the world to us. That must have been around 1990. We first started as point to a mailbox. After some months we got connected to the usenet and that was the big step. The world has change quite a bit since then, and it is still developing. I still haven't lost my hope that the improving possibilities to communicate world wide via the internet will make life a bit more peaceful. Now we do have two children (11 and 16 ys) and all members of our family own a pc. Even our Elijah with his 11 years now sarts using the internet as his playground. Wikipedia is a great thing for a curious young boy to discover the world of sciences and arts. One thing computers can do is make it so you can see what is on his screen. There is a program called VIsion that does htis. I use it in school. It is great. I can control any student's computer instantly and lock it up, if needed. Useful when a student needs help, sometimes with academic stuff, and often with learning what sites are not allowed. Jeff Greetings from Arft, that is in south western Germany, Dirk Weber -- Valid but for spam only This posting was edited with openxp |
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The next generation...
"Claire Petersky" wrote in message hlink.net... Someone I met on the misc.kids newsgroup back in the early 90s reports that her daughter, who recently married, is now pregnant. I don't know what I feel is more ancient, me or the internet! light-hearted manner, in jest even The internet is newer than ever, with new features every day. It is thriving. It can play music and videos videos, do word processing and spreadsheets, keep up with the news, etc. You couldn't do that nearly as well in the 90s as you can today on the inernet. I hope you, as an adult, on the other hand, don't grow any new features. They are rarely wanted. (If the features you want to grow are kids, I do wish you as many of these new features as you want.) Neither you nor the internet are ancient. However, in a comparison, the internet would have to be declared less ancient. Jeff Note: no end to light-hearted manner. Life's too short. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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