DOH!! I missed a week... #7 here we go

We were supposed to be blogging about anything technology related for week 7 and looking back that was when I had a techno-meltdown with Technorati and Del.icio.us. So here is my week 7...

Blog about anything technology related that interests me... let me see... hmmmm....

Um...it ALL interests me. :)

Let's just take a moment and look back on the technology of my life...

My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a tape cassette drive. I remember working for an hour on this program that came with it to make these bubbles appear all over the screen. I had to type stuff like >>run/program/set/abcd or some such stuff...(I was 8...it was a looooooong time ago...) Lines upon lines of that stuff. Then we got a Commodore SX-64...a "portable" computer. Uh Huh....can I tell you how heavy that thing was? But it had a printer and a floppy drive (a real floppy drive...the disks were really floppy) and I had Printshop. I was a hit at slumber parties, let me tell you. I must have made ten thousand banners and cards and colored them in...no color printer at that time. And it was a dot matrix printer with the paper that you had to tear off the sides and at the end of each page.

Then came the Timex Sinclair. We got this when my mom and dad went over to tour a new resort. The thing I remember about this little computer was that we had to hook it up to the TV for a monitor and the keys were flat. If I remember correctly...it didn't work all that well either.

For some reason, I didn't really have a computer throughout high school and my first 2 years of college. I think I handed in all my papers handwritten.

Then Al Gore invented the internet. Not really, but in the early 90s when the internet started to gain popularity, Mr. Buddhist Librarian and I started looking at computers. We eventually bought a Gateway that was a far cry from that Commodore 64. The Gateway was a huge computer...the monitor was massive. Then when we decided to go back to school, we upgraded to a Dell with a cable modem...the heaven's parted and the angels sang. The Dell is much smaller than the Gateway...then came a laptop... which is even smaller. Now...I have a phone that I can access the internet on. It also takes pictures, has a word program on, and can store downloaded music. It's a tad bigger than a deck of cards, but only about 1/2 as thick. My phone holds more than my Gateway could. It just blows my mind.

Then look at the games...My first computer game was Pong. Then I got an Atari...I was a Frogger champ in my day. Now, there's Wii and Play Station and the games are so realistic...and you can play with people all over the world. It's amazing.

And cameras. My first camera was a Kodak 110. The film was this cartridge thing that just snapped in. And the photos were printed with already rounded corners. I have a tool in my scrapbooking kit that does this for me now. Then came a 35 MM, then a Panoramic (which is still my favorite, BTW) then a digital. Now you can get digital 35mm. It's just boggling.

What's next? Computer screens in our eye glasses? Blink our eyes and take a picture? The possibilities are amazing...wonderful...and a little scary too.