The Land Before Time

Last night, I had the pleasure of getting together with my extended family and having a big party with food, gifts and games. Being around my teenaged cousins, however reminded me and my sisters of how old we're getting. This in turn, lead to a conversation about computers back in the day. Like remember when there was just typewriters?

And then word processors came out and that was like "the bomb"? LOL

And then, the next thing you know your classroom got a computer and it was like a HUGE freaking deal? And it looked like this?

And it sat in the back of the classroom and everyone had to take turns using that one computer? And if you wanted to play a game you had to use a floppy disk and it looked like this?

And it was like 8 1/2 inches? And remember the monitor with the big black or blue screen that looked like this?

Or this?

Or this?

And in order to get your computer to start working you had to type "boot up" or "Windows a/:" or something like that?

And remember when the "mouse" came out? And you were like, "Look I'm moving the little arrow on the screen! Wooow!"

Yeah, you know you remember! lol Sometimes I wonder if I'm really that old or did I just attend a school that was really "behind the times." Probably a little bit of both. Either way, thank goodness for modern technology.