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… on accepting an invitation to an activity involving a walk of more than a quarter mile or so, you carefully consider what shoes to wear.
Computers just passed me by, I'm known as computer illiterate, a term that I find insulting. Whilst I agree that most five-year-olds leave me in the starting blocks when it comes to computers, or, as I have heard it defined: Information Technology, the term illiterate is rather harsh. Then again, it was said by a college lecturer whose handwriting resembled that of a spider that had managed to crawl out of an inkwell.I still don’t know diddly about how these gizmos work but that doesn’t matter much, seeing how there’s little need to anymore. Even I figured out how to make my Apple Watch talk to my iPhone and iPad, and vice-versa. And the last desktop computer I bought, an iMac of maybe 2009 vintage, rarely gets used.
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WordPerfect, anyone?
It’s among the reasons I am rarely among the early adopters. The line used to be that your new computer was outdated about 10 minutes after you took it out of the box it came in.
It’s somewhat akin to the early age of the automobile, when it had to exist alongside horses and handcarts and an automobile operator had to know enough about how the contraption worked so that he could fix it when it ceased to work properly, which was a not infrequent occurrence.
Going back 40 years ago I sometimes felt that computers were more bother than they were worth.
And then came the Apple MacIntosh. Point and click.
I still don’t know diddly about how these gizmos work but that doesn’t matter much, seeing how there’s little need to anymore. Even I figured out how to make my Apple Watch talk to my iPhone and iPad, and vice-versa. And the last desktop computer I bought, an iMac of maybe 2009 vintage, rarely gets used.