a folder...It kind of opened up into a screen. It cost $3000 back then...(maybe 10,000 in today's money)..
It sat on his lap,..and connected to something called the "internet"..He showed me a site called the "White House. gov..., and then shared some articles that Al Gore wrote for that site.
..I was amazed by the computer and the site too. 2 or 3 years later..not sure, the library where I went to read newspapers from around the nation..had a few computers, which one could reserve for an hour, and connected to that so called, "internet"...In 2001, on the day of the 9/11 attack, I was sitting in that section of the library where the computers were, and I was at one of the computers..(maybe there were 6 in that room.) and someone said, "switch to this, and there it was instant news on the attack on 9/11) Pictures and info on the attack..From then on, I would go to the library when they opened up, (yes, I was retired then) and always got one of the computers at the beginning of the day. In 2007 or 8 or whenever, I got mine, and have been hooked on it ever since..
Proof: I swore that I would only spend a half hour on it today...and it has been 3 or 4 hours or more...
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