Coffee at JJ's: Catching Up to Technology
Well, it's been a week since I posted here, not for lack of things to say but because I have been learning more about the technology that has occurred on the Internet since I last took a serious interest in it.
The thing about technology is that it just won't stop changing!
In the late 1980s, I was in my 40s. I got on the brand new Internet and learned basic HTML code because that that was all there was. Just about anyone with just a little knowledge of code could do it. One small book (about 200 pages) held all the info anyone needed to build their own website.
It may seem simple now, but the Web was mainly about people, not business.
In fact, there were many who decried the onslaught of the few corporations that were starting to build their own websites and selling things on the Web. It was an outrage! It went against everything the Web stood for. The Web was about people, not selling.
But the Eighties became the Nineties, and the Nineties turned into whole new century. I was not in my 40s any more. Suddenly, and without my permission, I was in my 60s -- my late 60s.. Technology zoomed right past me. I lost interest. Too complicated. But even sound and video on a web page was not the end.
People were putting photos on their Web pages, with sound. And video.
MySpace showed up. YouTube. And things outside the Internet: cell phones. Iphones. Itunes. Ipods. Ipads. --A ton of gadgets with features that I did not want or need. Now people were walking to and from their cars with something held to their ear, talking to someone I could not see. Obnoxious individuals in restaurants were shouting into their cell phones ...and no one was protesting.
And still the technology kept changing
Then I wrote a book, decided to put it on the Internet. So I had to start learning about things like Facebook, Amazon.com (with Search Inside), Kindle, LinkedIn, Blogging, and Tweeting -- as well as XHTML5, SHTML, XML, CSS and a ton of other undecipherable abbreviations.
So after learning enough about Blogging to be able to produce this site, I dove into Facebook (with the help of someone fifty years younger than I) who insisted that "Oh, this stuff is easy."
...Yeah, well, this Geezer doesn't think so. I haven't even started building a website. I can hardly wait.
What are your thoughts, Hobson?
The thing about technology is that it just won't stop changing!
In the late 1980s, I was in my 40s. I got on the brand new Internet and learned basic HTML code because that that was all there was. Just about anyone with just a little knowledge of code could do it. One small book (about 200 pages) held all the info anyone needed to build their own website.
It may seem simple now, but the Web was mainly about people, not business.
In fact, there were many who decried the onslaught of the few corporations that were starting to build their own websites and selling things on the Web. It was an outrage! It went against everything the Web stood for. The Web was about people, not selling.
But the Eighties became the Nineties, and the Nineties turned into whole new century. I was not in my 40s any more. Suddenly, and without my permission, I was in my 60s -- my late 60s.. Technology zoomed right past me. I lost interest. Too complicated. But even sound and video on a web page was not the end.
People were putting photos on their Web pages, with sound. And video.
MySpace showed up. YouTube. And things outside the Internet: cell phones. Iphones. Itunes. Ipods. Ipads. --A ton of gadgets with features that I did not want or need. Now people were walking to and from their cars with something held to their ear, talking to someone I could not see. Obnoxious individuals in restaurants were shouting into their cell phones ...and no one was protesting.
And still the technology kept changing
Then I wrote a book, decided to put it on the Internet. So I had to start learning about things like Facebook, Amazon.com (with Search Inside), Kindle, LinkedIn, Blogging, and Tweeting -- as well as XHTML5, SHTML, XML, CSS and a ton of other undecipherable abbreviations.
So after learning enough about Blogging to be able to produce this site, I dove into Facebook (with the help of someone fifty years younger than I) who insisted that "Oh, this stuff is easy."
...Yeah, well, this Geezer doesn't think so. I haven't even started building a website. I can hardly wait.
What are your thoughts, Hobson?
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