Comments on: 5 things you didn't know (and were definitely afraid to ask)…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:17:11 +0000

That’s awesome Richard! I don’t think what I wrote back then was very profound, something to the effect of “Hi Dad” then waited 5 minutes, then “When are you coming home?” But it gives me the thought that I should make sure I do the same with my own kids, who even though they are 4 and 7 haven’t really been online yet! (oh the horror!)

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:12:28 +0000

My first email was on a VAX in about 1982 or 83. It connected all our library branches so we could pass docs, ILL requests back and forth.

But that’s not the earliest in my family. In 1987, I was sitting at my Vax terminal with a text window open. My wife came to visit with our youngest son, maybe 5 months or so old then.
Of course, I have to hold him in my lap, he sees the keyboard and starts hammering away. Not quite a million monkeys and the works of Shakespeare, now I can understand the math in that one.

Anyway, I had the forethought to save the text in a file and I still have it through many, many electronic format changes.
How many other kids have their first writings preserved electronically?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:18:53 +0000

Nice ones, friend. I didn’t know those ones (except number 4, natch…)

1977! I’d imagine that puts you in a pretty elite calibre of users.

And I endorse the muffling, of course.