How Dependent Have I Become?

I can tell you that I am not as dependent as I was in the early days of the computer age.

I got my first computer in 1990.

Nine years after

Windows 1

was released.

The operating system I was using was 3.1,

which meant I had to upgrade to

Windows 95

when it came out.

Anyone under the age of 20 has no idea what we had to go through in those dinosaur days.

We actually had to pay a monthly fee for a web browser.

And I am talking about long befor

 AOL 

came along.

During the 1990s I would hack into different software companies because I never wanted to pay for anything.

Everything back then had a back door.

I did it because I needed my money to raise my seven children.

We all know how expensive that can be.

Not complaining,

just stating a fact.

I remember starting out one

Sunday Morning

and spending eleven hours before I found a way to back door

AOL

so I could get free internet through them.

I wanted to be a

Cyberpunk 

back when it was still an underground movement.

I used to sign all my emails;

Jim Hauenstein Keep The Internet Free.

When high speed internet came along that all changed.

I did get a discount because I worked at a cable company for almost 20 years,

but it wasn't free.

Besides,

I couldn't risk my job any longer since I kept moving up the ladder because of my computer skills.

Now,

to get to the point of the title.

Ever since I retired I no longer stay up on all the new tech.

If I had,

I would have jumped on learning everything I could on how to make an app for cellphones.

I just don't have it in me anymore.

When the internet stopped working at my house the other day it was harder on my kids than me.

No WiFi,

no Xbox,

no On Demand,

just unlimited data on our cell phones.

Oh the pain.

To stir the imagination of my kids who were bored,

I told them to do what people have been doing since the time of

Gutenberg.

Read A Book!

 

This is,

Suggesting Reading One Of The Classics When You Get Bored Because It Stirs The Mind Better Than Watching A Classic

Jim Hauenstein

 

And,

 

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
- Italo Calvino -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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