In early 2000 I bought my first internet ready computer.\u00a0 I was nearing the age 50.\u00a0 It was a Dell.\u00a0 It came with a lifetime free internet access provided by Alta Vista.\u00a0 It was dialup but I did not realize how slow dialup was back then.\u00a0 I thought it was wonderful.\u00a0 Alta Vista offered dialup access, email, chat and a bunch of other things that they said I would have for a lifetime.\u00a0 It turned out to be their lifetime, not mine.<\/p>\n
I had previously owned Radio Shack and Commodore computers.\u00a0 They were pre-internet and were useful only in that they gave me the experience of writing simple programs and playing pre-installed games.<\/p>\n
I played with the computer, went to the computer store and bought new gadgets to attached.\u00a0 Many times the store clerk would tell me that these gadgets wouldn’t work, I needed a new computer.\u00a0 They did work, at least for a while.\u00a0\u00a0 When they didn’t work, I started building my own computers.<\/p>\n
I believe that the internet has opened up new means to both view the world and change it.\u00a0 I hope others embrace this and continue to challenge the status quo continue to push the envelop of human progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In early 2000 I bought my first internet ready computer.\u00a0 I was nearing the age 50.\u00a0 It was a Dell.\u00a0 It came with a lifetime free internet access provided by Alta Vista.\u00a0 It was dialup but I did not realize how slow dialup was back then.\u00a0 I thought it was wonderful.\u00a0 Alta Vista offered dialup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}