Blog #7

My first experience with a computer was a game called Reader Rabbit, and I played it constantly. It was a learning game made for first graders, but I played it when I was much younger. I loved to read and was always looking to expand my young mind. This was my first experience, but far from my last with the world wide web. This had such a lasting impact on me because of the memorable gameplay, and iconic characters. As far as technological determinism viewpoint goes, I think it was vital to my future to get involved with computers at such a young age. Little did I know at that point in my life how important the computer would turn out be. After countless hours of playing Reader Rabbit, I eventually outgrew it, and started trying my hand at endeavors such as the Sims and various other games that stressed my intelligence to its limits. When games would no longer feed my hunger for electronic growth, I moved onto the exploration of the internet. I considered myself a fairly creative person at the time, and began to try my hand at both website building and creating blogs. All of this experience on the web gave me valuable skills to put towards my internet heavy future. I feel like there are still aspects of those early games and programs that I use now, especially the website builders, and blogs I used to create, obviously, seeing as how for this class I am currently using a blog I originally created when I was thirteen. Lately I don't do much on the internet like I used to, I mostly use it for research and to look up scores of games, but I think being exposed to it at such a young age put me ahead of the curve, and has allowed me to know more about the less used aspects of the internet.