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This is the first day of the ‘Theology After Google’ class and yesterday I asked on Twitter what video I should use to get the conversation moving. I promised I would share them with the class and figured y’all might enjoy them. So without further ado, here’s the Twitter-gestions…..
hat turned sideways.
All of this blows my mind. The last one pretty much says it all for me. My first job in 1953 was working in a computer room. To have been involved with computers from the very beginning and to see where we are now is enough to again, blow my mind away. As the video states, the 'computer' was housed in "ROOMS" and now in pockets, WOW !!!! I use to punch little holes in cards with all the data we needed, the cards were fed to the "reader" that had been programed to read the cards and print out the data. If anyone has seen an old fashioned telephone switch board, then you know what the program board looked like. You had little plugs that you plugged into the frame of the program board that enabled the "reader" to do what you needed. My company paid my tuition to a school that taught how to program the computer. It was very difficult but I enjoyed it. Had to quit because my first child was to be born. In 1970, after being a stay at home mom, I went back to work and guess what, worked on a desk top computer as well as managing the accounts payable department. Now I use my desk top for so many things, social networking, research, spreadsheets, word documents, editing and storing pictures, the list goes on and on. One great thing is that it is for me a place of learning. I can go to Homebrewed website and many others to pursue my theological interests, if I have a question on anything I simply do a search and there it is. Amazing. For a senior adult it is the easiest way to continue to become educated. I play games such as Rummy Squares, Book Worm, Wheel of fortune, solitaire, and many others that are so much fun but it is also training my brain. The other videos were definately examples of the various things you can find on the computer, some interesting, some statistical, some just plain boreing,(not presented on Homebrewed) but if you want porn or anything else you can find it on the web. A great tool, the computer, for both good and evil. I love my PC !!!!!!
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