http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1851769,00.asp
Wow, I can't believe it's been 10 years!
My first computer was ordered just before WIN95 started shipping with new PCs. It was an IBM so it had WIN3.1 as well as OS/2 Warp. Eventually I had Windows 95 installed on it.
A decade ago, I couldn't imagine doing much with a computer besides typing a letter and playing solitaire. I remembering my mom and I hooking up the computer and it the box there was a piece of phone cable. Looking perplexed I asked my mom, 'what this for?' And she said she thinks the sales guy said the phone line would be needed to go on the internet. I looked at my mom and said why would I ever want to go on the internet and threw the phone line in the garbage. I also almost made my mom take the computer back and exchange it for one with out a CD-ROM drive. I wanted nothing to do with CD-ROMs.
Now 10 years later I'm on a 5MB (soon to be 8MB) internet connection, communicating with people all around the world, playing games like Halo and Grand Theft Auto, downloading music, making my own CDs and DVDs, have my own wireless network going, etc. Back then I wanted nothing to do with computers, now I live on one.
It's amazing how much things have change in the past decade, I can't help to wonder about the future which I see there being two major improvements.
1) The widespread in-depth convergence of the internet, TV and digital media as a whole. One central box in your home provided by a cable or phone provider that serves out all of your entertainment needs to your entire house hold in an on demand type environment and 2) what I can't wait for, AI.
I almost want to stat humming that song, In the Year 2525
Wow, I can't believe it's been 10 years!
My first computer was ordered just before WIN95 started shipping with new PCs. It was an IBM so it had WIN3.1 as well as OS/2 Warp. Eventually I had Windows 95 installed on it.
A decade ago, I couldn't imagine doing much with a computer besides typing a letter and playing solitaire. I remembering my mom and I hooking up the computer and it the box there was a piece of phone cable. Looking perplexed I asked my mom, 'what this for?' And she said she thinks the sales guy said the phone line would be needed to go on the internet. I looked at my mom and said why would I ever want to go on the internet and threw the phone line in the garbage. I also almost made my mom take the computer back and exchange it for one with out a CD-ROM drive. I wanted nothing to do with CD-ROMs.
Now 10 years later I'm on a 5MB (soon to be 8MB) internet connection, communicating with people all around the world, playing games like Halo and Grand Theft Auto, downloading music, making my own CDs and DVDs, have my own wireless network going, etc. Back then I wanted nothing to do with computers, now I live on one.
It's amazing how much things have change in the past decade, I can't help to wonder about the future which I see there being two major improvements.
1) The widespread in-depth convergence of the internet, TV and digital media as a whole. One central box in your home provided by a cable or phone provider that serves out all of your entertainment needs to your entire house hold in an on demand type environment and 2) what I can't wait for, AI.
I almost want to stat humming that song, In the Year 2525