The first time I used a computer was sometime in elementary school – we had a computer lab, but I’m not sure of the exact age we started using them. We took a computer course every year and did simple things like learning games (Treasure Mountain I think was the big one) and were taught the basics of word processing and the like. My parents had laptops at home for work, but we got our first family computer when I was in 4th or 5th grade I think, and it was mostly used for games. I don’t remember really using the internet until middle school when we started using it more for research and instant messaging became the thing to do. Originally my computer usage was very basic and mostly recreational. Now, I still use it to waste time some, but it has become a main source of information-gathering for a variety of things. I used it to research colleges, I use it for research papers in all my classes, I look for jobs on it, I review restaurants on it, I book hotels. The uses have become much more versatile, and obviously some of those things become necessary with age, but mainly my usage has changed because the way computers are made in general has changed. So though I have been using computers for the vast majority of my life, I didn’t start using them the way I do now until about 10 years ago, and every year the way I use them changes a little bit more as new software and functions are discovered.
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