Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
This is what my life would look like without my computer.
Like when I was a teenager, I’d have to type everything on a good old-fashioned typewriter, get covered in ink every time I’d have to change the ribbon, have a good supply of Tippex, scrunch up badly written sheets and throw them into the bin.
I’d have to look up words in my thesaurus, asking myself, where is that thesaurus I once owned? I loved that book. It smelled beautiful and its hardback cover was dark blue with silver writing. The last time I saw it, it wasn’t in pristine condition, and that’s because it got a lot of use.
I’m sure it’s difficult for those who weren’t born before the age of computers to imagine what life would be like without them.
People my vintage and older remember having to handwrite or type everything.
I had a computer long before I had the internet. Before Cloud, I saved my work on floppy discs and CDS, and my kids played games on diskettes and CDs.
I played games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong in the arcades. We had to put money into a slot to play, so there was little chance of becoming addicted. Plus, there was usually someone standing in line waiting their turn.
I’d be lost without my computer, to be honest!
Thank you for reading.
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I never got the hang of typing on a typewriter. If we had not got a computer, I would not have written any books.
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Darlene, I never really got the hang of it either. It was never anything very important I typed anyway. Isn’t it crazy that your life could have been so different if you had never got a computer! Amanda might never have been born and gone on so many adventures.
I suppose thousands of writers might say the same thing about their careers. Computers and the internet really does make the job easier!
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Exactly!
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I’m glad I took a course in typing at school. My contemparies thought me barking.
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I’ve just remembered a cassette tape and book that my aunt gave me when I was very young. I can’t remember the title, but it was learning how to type.
I’d like to have had proper lessons, though.
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They didn’t turn me into a touch typist but I’m pretty good with four fingers!!
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Funny what you say about your thesaurus. I remember using mine often years ago (I’m a Gen-Xer) but have no idea just where it has disappeared to over the years!
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Maybe they felt lost and redundant, and ran away from home! 😄
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And do you remember having to insert a piece of carbon paper between two pieces of plain paper if you wanted to make a copy of anything? – the days before photocopiers.
I took a touch-typing course when I was 16. The letters on the keys were all hidden by different coloured tabs. I don’t know how we learned to type that way, but I remember passing the exam.
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