When is it time to junk your computer?

[SWBTATTReg]

13. No, isn't that amazing! I guess I've been lucky, but I don't really do too much on it, like play games or stuff on it.

I'm a long-term IT guy, so I'm not really into playing computer games or the like, I guess when you work in IT, you really don't have that desire to 'play games' on it. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing at all wrong w/ people playing games and such on their computers. The only thing I'll say is that few of us back then (back in the early 1980s) little visualized just how big the IT of today, and all of its many different shapes, fashion, everything. Amazing. And one of the applications I worked on back then, we were wondering what people would do, if they had access to like AOL (one of our first customers back in the early 1980s). AOL had approached us (I worked for SWBT, one of the former ATT subsidiaries), and wanted a, basically cheaper than private lines access (private lines were very expensive back then).

And today? I'm constantly amazed, and absolutely enchanted w/ how the Internet and computers have exploded across the landscape. A tiny bit of which I was so lucky to be involved w/, and also, still around to see the long-term impact of what the Internet can do, and will continue to do.