#first computers

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A friend on facebook posted a question about first computers, first owned or first used or both, and some unknown but volatile spectre took hold of me (boredom it was boredom) and I wrote out this long-ass response that I'm sharing here for difficult-to-discern yet somehow vital reasons (more boredom):

First used was a macintosh, can't recall the model, but my cousin had one and I used it it to play space invaders and found it delightful. It was also the same model used in the computer room at my elementary school, where we went once a week to learn typing (on a program called paws, or something like that), and this is where I was introduced to Oregon Trail, also delightful.

Then came a clunky little guy of a laptop that was my mother's, used for work purposes (creating spreadsheets for grades, simple word processing, and other high-school-teacher-things). It had a windows-like interface and a black and white screen, and I ran Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on it for practice which I, yes that's right, found delightful.

Fast forward to when I was...16 I think? My dad finally gave in and bought us a family computer, the type that came with a tower and had a monitor that looked like a wee CRTV. It had color, connected to the internet, and ran windows 98, which came with a pinball game that - that's right, you've guessed it, delighted me. I searched the web with Alta Vista until my dad gave in yet again and let us get AOL for a time, where I made prodigious use of AIM to talk to friends and strangers alike. I also used the computer to play my favorite game at that point: Sim City 2000, which I played all the time and eventually grew tired of when I figured out how to essentially guarantee a successful city, but my mom caught onto it and actually ended up using the game for her economics and government students, for which she was lauded and earned the greatest of student praise by being dubbed a 'cool teacher'. It was also on this computer that I discovered the phenomenons of fandom (via internet forums) and fan fiction (often via geocities and angelfire and the associated web rings), and thus sealed my fate.

As for the first computer to call my own, that was an iBook, the earliest model I think or whatever was most current in 2002, which I got as part of the academic scholarship I had at the college I ended up choosing. I had to take it in for repairs many a time, not because it didn't work but because I am a gremlin and kept pulling the damn keys off the keyboard, and I backed it up using a zip drive that was also part of the scholarship package. When I transfered to a different school I was able to buy it from them at half price since it was technically used, and continued to love it until one day it seemed to randomly brick over the course of a week, which is when my mac-savvy friend explained that the reason I couldn't find a defrag program to run is because apple calls it something else and hides it in the safe start (I think?) mode, those fuckers. Bought a second one, was very UNdelighted to find that all my zip discs failed, and that was the last mac I ever owned, the end 🧡

TL;DR I gave an excessive response to a question from a friend about first computers and when I have writer's block it tends to overflow in weird ways

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