When I was younger, I didn't have a computer or anything else that dealt with technology. Our television only had four channels. We didn't need it. It was all about the outdoors and schoolwork and reading. I was about 12 when we got our first computer. I won it through a drawing from Gear Up in middle school. We also had dial up internet to go with it because it was paid for through Gear Up as well. I lived in the country, and dial up, well, it was cool at first. But then all my friends from town had high speed Internet and mine was as slow as a snail. We mainly used the computer for homework, and an occasional search.
I received my first cell phone my senior year of high school. It was a graduation present, but my parents gave it to me early so I could put all my friends numbers in it before we graduated. It wasn't anything nice, but I thought it was awesome. By this time in my life, we finally has cable, so we had many more channels on our television, and the Internet, well, it was still dial up.
I never really wanted an MP3 player or Ipod. They never interested me. Mom bought me one for Christmas about three years ago, but I found it a few days before Christmas. It was the only gift she bought for me that she thought would be a surprise. I pretty much picked out the other gifts. Well, she asked me if I would still want it, and I smoothly told her it was nice, but I never really wanted one.
A year ago we finally got high speed internet. It's great to have when I'm back home. I have a blackberry curve as well, and I love the phone! I also have an MP3 Player. I didn't want it, but I found it on the top of the Beachurts parking garage. So I picked it up, and since no one was around to claim it, I kept it. I was going to sell it to my roommate, but then I thought I'd put music on it and listen to it a bit. Well, now I'm addicted to it. I even have a car tuner for it so I can listen to it on the car stereo.
So, growing up the internet wasn't used much, except at school. Then we used it a little after I won the computer. Now that we have high speed, everyone in my family uses it. It's crazy how things change in a matter of twenty years. Starting out, I wasn't much of a digital native, but everyone around where I live now is.
