I was visiting a new client when she told me that she was so glad she had met me. The last computer person she worked with had told her that “she was using the computer wrong.” My philosophy is everyone uses a computer in their own way.
A computer is just a tool. The Internet has turned it into a communications tool but the early personal computers could only be used for computation.
The World Wide Web wasn’t always easy to use. In the beginning, there was no graphical user interface. That meant that you had to know just what to type to get anywhere on the Internet; you had to type 152.118.24.40 instead of www.ui.edu to get to the University of Illinois, one of the early Internet sites.
Search engines weren’t always quick to be aware of new websites. Google and Yahoo were late to the search game. And the original search engines were built manually. If you started a new site, you could go and register it. Then someone would look at it and add it to the directory.
Early email users had to be on the same Internet Service Provider (ISP). Someone on AOL could only send email to other AOL users. And we all got to the Internet via dial-up modems.
I could go on with the history, but we all use computers right. Some of us just use it for more than others. It doesn’t matter if you only use email or if you only check out three websites. It doesn’t matter that you can’t use everything that your computer is capable of doing.
Keep reading my blog and I’m sure you’ll find something that discusses how you are using your computer. I’m writing this blog to both help you understand more about what you are currently doing and possibly interest you into trying something new.
© 2012 by Sherry Goncharsky
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