Changes... we've come a long way, baby! Re: Total Lunar Eclipse tonight

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Have we ever come a long way! Think of cell phones. Did you ever, ever (when you were a kid) imagine that everyone would be toting around a phone? lol Computers are amazing. Information is so INSTANT! When I was in high school and doing term papers I would be in the library for hours and hours searching through research books and the card catalog was my friend:)hugs SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects. To: MSersLife Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 10:43:04 AMSubject: Re: Total Lunar Eclipse tonight

Yup..

terrific event, and your grandchildren now have something they

get to tell their grandchildren and possibly great grandchildren

about, years from now.. and getting those printouts for them...

well that's another thing they'll also have to put in front of

their future offspring.. like the school bus was for your

father, they'll be able to show the offspring what they did in

the "dark ages" for antique computer items.

Heck, my computer experience started with a Commodore Vic20 --

the very first personal computer (PC) -- and when it first

arrived on the market, the only thing available for storage was

a tape drive, which were tremendously expensive.. otherwise if

you want to make a little white dot bounce across screen one had

to type in something like 150 lines of BASIC code.. with

commands like "Peek" and "Poke".. Then, of course, IBM was the

first to release the actual more user friendly PC.. and they

only cost a couple thousand dollars!

Hmmm.. possibly a good research topic for some type of written

paper for the homeschooling? The History of Personal Computers..

and how it's evolution actually helped make homeschooling a

possibility.

I guess that some of the things we've seen or experienced in our

lifetime have been pretty amazing as well.. Yup.. once I start

to think about, just, technology alone, it's been a pretty

amazing life experience.. My first "portable" weighed at least

50 pounds, couldn't really call it a laptop, because it wasn't

something you could actually sit in your lap, but was the

prelude to today's laptop.. and my first "removable" hard drive

was a Bernoulli Box.. the disks held about 10 - 20 meg of

information and the hard "floppy" removable disks were 8 1/2 by

11 in size.. We've definitely "Come a Long Way Baby!" LOL

HUGS

|)onna

Oh, I agree. What an event, huh? Two of my grandkids

watched it all the way through. Yesterday I printed off info

and photos (of this historic eclipse) from the internet for the

grandkids to keep.

My dad was born in 1900. The "school bus" that picked him up

was a horse-drawn wagon. Can you imagine?

hugs

Sharon

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Well, nope.. never thunk the cell

phone idea when I was using a tin can & string.. Genealogy

was a super super expensive hobby, and yup.. a good grade paper

required library access.. the stuff that came out of the

encyclopedias I had at home was way way way outdated..

Magazines, except Field & Stream and Reader's Digest were

non-existent at home.. And I have long ago forgotten the card

catalog.. And I've been part of the internet, long before Dan

Quayle invented it too.. back when a BBS (Bulletin Board

Service) was a tremendous resource for information, and it was

amazing that one could send "messages" around the world via

those same BBS's.. And video games from "Space Invaders" (that I

played for weeks until I could get the score to roll over) to

EverQuest or Second Life..

Yeah, I think we've actually lived through tremendous times..

HUGS

|)onna

Have

we ever come a long way! Think of cell phones. Did you ever,

ever (when you were a kid) imagine that everyone would be

toting around a phone? lol Computers are amazing.

Information is so INSTANT! When I was in high school and

doing term papers I would be in the library for hours and

hours searching through research books and the card catalog

was my friend:)

hugs

Sharon

This email is a natural hand made product.

The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its

individual character and beauty and in no way are to be

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