When the iPhone 4 started to make headlines and telling us, the internet will run faster, you can now run multiple apps at one time, have video conferencing, you can even record and edit a HD Video on your phone, this got me thinking about my childhood and asking, “What technology did I have as a child?” There was not a lot, but I remember being a kid and loading up my Apple IIE computer. In order to run one program I would need to install a floppy disk in drive one, then another floppy disk in drive two and wait for the program to load up. I had a few games, but most of them were educational games, which was my mom’s way of saying if you are going to play you will learn as well.
Internet was a foreign concept for me until I was in 7th Grade. I was visiting a friend and he told me he was going to send an email to someone through the computer and I looked at him like he was crazy! He showed me how to get an internet connection by placing the Telephone Receiver on this funny phone contraption (which was a modem, see below) and would he connect to the internet, and yes it did take a while. Some things do not change.
Now today we still have dial up, but most places you have access to high speed internet in your house, at coffee shops, on your phone or even an Air Card in which you can take the internet with you.
