Kids these days....

I was in high school before I saw my first home computer, which history would tell me most likely ran MS-DOS.  My best friend's dad was a V.P. at Eli Lilly, so he always had the latest and greatest.  Along with his dot matrix printer.  We made a lot of cool banners on that green and white striped paper.

Fast forward 3 years... my college roommate had a brand new Mac II, and I was finally exposed to the wonders of a mouse (not the furry rodent).   I discovered email somewhere around 1993--my first ever email went to my cousin at the University of Illinois from a computer lab at Indiana U.....and that was sooo cool.  Of course I had to keep calling her to make sure she got it.  When 1997 rolled around, I was finally able to surf the mysterious internet that everyone had been buzzing about at my brand new job with a computer software company.

Steven was 2 when he mastered the "point and click" and became fairly proficient in Windows Paint.  Much more so than my mother, anyway, although that's not really a fair gauge.  He was also 2 when he discovered games on The Wiggles website.  He can now find various children's websites saved in his Favorites file, navigate through multiple windows, print pages for coloring, turn on/off the computer correctly, and adjust the speaker volume with hardware and software. 

I'm thinking about getting a copy of Quickbooks Pro so he can do my taxes online next year.

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Published 03 October 2007 11:37 AM by Amy Unger
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# Daddy Dee said on 03 October, 2007 04:59 PM

Steven, the new work from home Klipsch CFO.

# Champagne taste beer budget said on 03 October, 2007 10:15 PM

I thought I was ahead of the curve with an early Apple II "plus some letter", making up spreadsheets and data lists like I knew what I what I was doing. That was the middle 80's, near as I can recall. Nowadays, our 7 yr old daughter can get on and find stuff as fast as I could, if I were looking for Barbie info. ;) One of these weekends I need to get a nanny program installed before she finds out stuff she doesn't need to know yet. It was bad enough the other morning when she got up early to find Mom and Dad wrestling at 6:45 AM.

# Andy W said on 04 October, 2007 09:12 AM

I still have a box full of the green and white striped paper.

# Amy Unger said on 04 October, 2007 09:22 AM

CTBB--

No comment on the wrestling (!), but I would recommend CyberPatrol for the nanny program.  I use it at home, and it has some great features (different levels of site blocking, time management, monitors exe programs as well as internet sites, etc)....it's very easy to use, and they've been very responsive to questions.  If I remember correctly, it's $40/year to maintain.  Worth every penny!

# Champagne taste beer budget said on 04 October, 2007 01:45 PM

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll look into it.

# Ray Garrison said on 04 October, 2007 11:37 PM

I actually got to load paper tape into the reader of an IBM 360/40 system at my Dad's office at the American Can Company in 1967 (I was 12).  All this paper started printing out with the most hellacious racket...  I was *RUNNING A COMPUTER*!!!  I thought that was the absolute most coolest thing in the history of the world...

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