One of the first times I remember using a computer was before I even went to school. My mom was a kindergarten teacher at the so she was always in the know about knew technologies through her work. After using them in the classroom with her students, it was only a matter of time before we had a home computer. I can remember how big and bulky it was. The desk we had it on seemed to take up half of our living room. One of the first things that I ever did on there was to change the background screen, boy did I think I was special. Soon after, my pre-school mind was not entertained anymore so, mom bought be a game. It was a Rugrats game about getting ready for kindergarten. Because my mom was an educator, I never really had just plain old games growing up. Anytime that I wasn’t playing that game, I was pretending I was a secretary for some big company pecking away at the giant keyboard. Now, using the internet on the computer would not happen for SEVERAL years in the future.It was around 2005 when we got dial up internet, but I didn’t like the sound and NEVER used it. It was 2010 until I got a faster internet at my house through Verizon. When 4th grade rolled around, I remember using the internet for one of the first times and actually understanding more about what it was. I distinctly remember using the Netscape browser that displayed a spinning globe in the top left corner of the screen while your page was loading. Although all of these are memories with computers, the one that I remember most in detail was my first major computer mistake. Soon after we had just gotten our computer for the home, I made my first “boo boo” One day, my grandfather told my mom that he would watch me while she went to the store. I told Be-Buddy that I was going to get on the computer. Like most old men, he was leary about me using it. “Please don’t get on there, if you break it, I wont know how to fix it until your mother gets home” Needless to say, my young mind didn’t care, there was no way I could break this thing. As if his threat wasn’t enough, instead of staying to my safe Rugrat game icon, I thought it would be wise to start just clicking around on things. Before long, I found one with a yellow telephone. I thought to myself “how useful is this, an address book for the computer.” I clicked on the icon and a screen popped up. Hmm, what number should I put in first. I didn’t really know many numbers but I did know 911, that mom had told me about. I quickly entered it and pushed the big yellow phone button on the screen. Within seconds, I was talking to an operator, “911 what’s your emergency?” My heart sunk into my chest and I tried to look for the button to hang up. I pushed it, no one was there, and grandpa was successfully still watching TV. Thank goodness, I went to my room to act like it never happened but within the next few minuets the phone rang. With a look of disgust on his face, my grandpa handed over the phone receiver to me. I had to explain myself to the operator, i don’t remember a thing he said I was crying so hard. When I hung up the phone, I went to my room to prepare for my death that mom was going to dish at me later. I laid on my bed for what seemed like days waiting for her to come home, When she did, she popped in my room, told me to never do it again, and I was in the clear. Ahhh RELIEF. In the end, this story thought me at a young age just how many functions computers have, and all the things that you can use them for. The scary thing is, that was 10 or more years ago, just think of what they can do now. Not only that, this story made me mindful of what buttons to go pushing on. After this, it was a long time before I went exploring on my PC again. PC has shaped my life, though the different ways that I use it. This goes back to displacement theory we learned in class. I might not necessarily be replacing different technologies to fill my time, but I did change my use of a particular technology. When I was a child, I used it for games. When I got into middle school I used to to write some papers, but mainly to instant message people on the weekends. In high school, I was using it on Facebook, and in college, I’m using it for school work again. So say I had 20 minuets a day to play games when I was a kid, well once I hit the middle school age, I used 10 minuets for gaming and the other 10 for chatting. One of the interesting things to me is how may important life-changing moments I have had on a computer. For example, when I got my first boyfriend, he asked me out over an e-mail, (he’s a keeper I know, NOTED: that I said first, not current haha) I also applied for the colleges I wanted to go to over the internet, and talked to my cousin over seas on the computer.People meet there spouse on the computer these days! So many monumental things for me have developed around the PC, and I can’t wait to see what else I will do with it in the future.
What have I been doing personally to solve this problem? One, I love to drink sleepy time tea before bed. It is something this not very expensive, and tastes great. There are several different varieties to choose from and you can add honey for a little sweetness. The other thing that I like to do is look at what time is best for me to go to sleep. How do you do this you ask, just type in what time you want to get up in the morning into this website. It is a life saver and you really can tell the difference. 
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For one, I do love the “Fail Whale” I think that is such a cute idea, but then again its probably because I am not actually experiencing a problem. The main point that I am getting to by showing this box is how crazy it is to think that there were so many people trying to post information at one time that it crashed a website. The amount of information that was trying to be posted at that one time blows my mind. I know the internet is full of information but when you think about it, its like survival of the fittest out there. Unless your information is more useful and easily found by people, then its almost pointless to put the information on the internet in the first place. No wonder we have classes like this one in order to help generate ideas and make you stand out among the rest. To read the entire article, here is the link: 
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