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teyrnonIt seems so strange. I was shifting through some old files and it hit me; it's 2007. Sure, that doesn't seem like a revelation and it's not. We all know what year it is but it's the passage of time and how much the world has changed that struck me. Ten years ago was about the time companies everywhere started to get the idea that they had to have websites. The whole eCommerce and webstores thing really started to get off the ground and it wasn't long before everywhere you looked you saw web addresses; on trucks; on benches; in phonebooks; all over the place. The ubiquity of web addresses in the street level world is a phenomenon about a decade ago. Combine that with the increasing ubiquity of cellular phones and related technologies and it hit me the current generation of teenagers have grown up in a world of unparalleled, in history, communications and online culture. What impact has that had on youth culture? Has it been a mostly good thing or a mostly bad thing? I don't know. My last experiences working with children were in the early 90s as part of the adopt-a-school program and haven't really had any contact with kids since then.
I was a child of the seventies and eighties with a background in computers going back to as early as 9 or 10 when I learned my first programming language; BASIC. I was about 13 when I called my first BBS. This was somewhat unusual but not terribly so for that time. It was all back in the early to mid 80s. Back then computers were a source of wonder and fascination. I try to recapture that sense of wonder from time to time with varying measures of success and it's one of the things that has defined my life over the past three decades. Goodness, where has the time gone?
I was a child of the seventies and eighties with a background in computers going back to as early as 9 or 10 when I learned my first programming language; BASIC. I was about 13 when I called my first BBS. This was somewhat unusual but not terribly so for that time. It was all back in the early to mid 80s. Back then computers were a source of wonder and fascination. I try to recapture that sense of wonder from time to time with varying measures of success and it's one of the things that has defined my life over the past three decades. Goodness, where has the time gone?
