Comments on: Where were you in 1995? http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/ Education, technology, and other geeky things Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:39:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: taliacarbis http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-445 taliacarbis Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:34:37 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-445 In 1995 I was in grade 2. We didn't have any computers in our classroom, not for a few years after that! My parents got a computer for their business a few years after that. I use to play Word rescue and Maths rescue. No internet for me... :-P In 1995 I was in grade 2. We didn’t have any computers in our classroom, not for a few years after that! My parents got a computer for their business a few years after that. I use to play Word rescue and Maths rescue. No internet for me… :-P

]]> By: Louise Maine http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-444 Louise Maine Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:04:54 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-444 Commodore 64! I had that too and had to write commands as well! In 1995, I was finishing my Master's after taking a break having my son. I remember having a spirited discussion with a student who could not wrap his mind around the whgole idea of the Internet. Wow - look at it now! Commodore 64! I had that too and had to write commands as well! In 1995, I was finishing my Master’s after taking a break having my son. I remember having a spirited discussion with a student who could not wrap his mind around the whgole idea of the Internet. Wow - look at it now!

]]> By: Pat http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-441 Pat Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:30:51 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-441 This was a hilarious article! It actually made me think back to when I got my first computer back in 1984 and it was a Commodore 64. I thought I was hot stuff back then and I remember having to write commands (before Windows). Thanks for making me see how far I've come from then! This was a hilarious article! It actually made me think back to when I got my first computer back in 1984 and it was a Commodore 64. I thought I was hot stuff back then and I remember having to write commands (before Windows). Thanks for making me see how far I’ve come from then!

]]> By: Damian http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-439 Damian Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:34:50 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-439 I was a freshman in college, logging into Telnet to for the first check my email in Pine editor, reading Usenet newsgroups, and checking out the "World Wide Web" for the first time using Netscape (even then, IE was my second choice!). Of course, I had also been emailing via CompuServe and calling BBSes from my 9600 baud modem for 2.5 years by that point, so I was a little ahead of the general curve. My floormate Lee taught me HTML in a morning, and I had my first website up by late Sept/early Oct., and my freshman seminar professor allowed me a whole class session to teach my fellow freshmen how to use the Internet - I still have the handout I made for the occasion! Just to keep it on topic, I hope that in 13 more years (hopefully earlier) we'll all be able to laugh at technophobia in schools as a relic from the past. I was a freshman in college, logging into Telnet to for the first check my email in Pine editor, reading Usenet newsgroups, and checking out the “World Wide Web” for the first time using Netscape (even then, IE was my second choice!). Of course, I had also been emailing via CompuServe and calling BBSes from my 9600 baud modem for 2.5 years by that point, so I was a little ahead of the general curve.

My floormate Lee taught me HTML in a morning, and I had my first website up by late Sept/early Oct., and my freshman seminar professor allowed me a whole class session to teach my fellow freshmen how to use the Internet - I still have the handout I made for the occasion!

Just to keep it on topic, I hope that in 13 more years (hopefully earlier) we’ll all be able to laugh at technophobia in schools as a relic from the past.

]]> By: Kelly Rusk http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-438 Kelly Rusk Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:24:21 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/03/23/where-were-you-in-1995/#comment-438 Hehe that paragraph stuck out for me too. Also @heatherforce also pointed me to Cliff Stoll on Wikipedia, which points out that he now sells something over the Internet... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll I love these types of articles. As a writer, I'm always afraid things are write are going to be laughable in 10 years, but hey it's the risk we take! (Actually, I'd be pretty impressed if people were talking about something I wrote 10 years ago...!) Hehe that paragraph stuck out for me too. Also @heatherforce also pointed me to Cliff Stoll on Wikipedia, which points out that he now sells something over the Internet…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll

I love these types of articles. As a writer, I’m always afraid things are write are going to be laughable in 10 years, but hey it’s the risk we take! (Actually, I’d be pretty impressed if people were talking about something I wrote 10 years ago…!)

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