it'll never catch on

[lewis1641]

i left school age 16 in 1995. in the last 3 years of my schho days a new Information Technology lesson was made compulsory.

i hated it.

i was met with absolute and complete panic every time i had to go near a computer. i never skipped lessons at school but i was so terrified of those dreaded 2856 machines i came very close. (i'm hardcore, i know)

one lesson we had was all about the internet. we spent half an hour being told what it can do and the following half an hour on the internet. mainly waiting for pictures to download if i recall.

anyway the teacher was telling us that this is the future and if we dont get comfortable with computers we are destined to fail in life. the internet will be everything.

me and my luddite mates left the class felling rather uninspired and underwhelmed about this terribly sloy and pointless technology and age 15 declared we would never use the internet again. ever

 

[mikee]

christ the nearest i got to computers when i left school was a casio calculator
was 20 year before you tho

 

[Easy_Rider]

Complete opposite for me, always been a computer/tech geek, i remember quite clearly talking to my friend in Physics class, around 1995 about email, he was laughing his head off saying what a complete waste of time it will never catch on, what's the point?

You must have been to a pretty good school to have internet lessons in the early 90's, we had no such thing and I had to tell my friends all about it. The school still on BBC computers if I recall apart from ONE Apple Mac the Geography department had wanged somehow, hooked to the satellite so we could see live weather images, was cool stuff.

So how are you with tech now?

 

[legrandefromage]

You could only get into the computer club if you were good at maths, I wasnt so had looked at computers (BBC 'B') with disdain until I watched somebody playing 'Virus' on Acorn.

I hadnt sent an email until July 2000.

I can now build a comp from scratch (a box of bits) and repair most software /hardware issues via the best tool - google.

 

[lewis1641]

You must have been to a pretty good school to have internet lessons in the early 90's

So how are you with tech now?

just a run of the mill comprehensive

i am still pretty terrible with technology. i'm kind of "like what i know and know what i like"

feel a little uneasy when i buy a new printer and have to install the stuff off the disc.

can get by with word rpocessing, excell etc but cant really enjoy getting into the guts of things.

quickly leart how to delete browsing history though!

 

[mattbrown]

i hated computers at school, couldnt see the point of them, but 2nd year of college and my lecturer said cuz my handwriting was crap, i had ot type stuff up, but the funny thing was that i was the 1st in the class to set up the internet on my login, and ive never looked back, even was a computer engineer once.

 

[IDB1]

We had 'puters in school from '79 (I left in '82) - but no interweb, not sure it was invented .. was always expected to go into IT due to being above average at everything except art and pe.. Maths geek alert

Didn't disappoint, started on shift 3 weeks out of school and hated it from the first year until my last year (2001)..

Should've taken the opportunity to go to university and studied English :roll:

 

[FluffyChicken]

I was programming BBC and Electron in the late 80's at the tender age of well i'll have been in primary school and when moving in to 'big secondary' school they where still BBC's and I used to show others when using them.

By GCSE's at the upper school we go to use the 386's ageing by this point and they where thinking of buying some 486's. But they where not used very much and most the teaching was on the BBC still as they did everything anyone wanted to know.
(... lots of other geeky info I'll just leave out)

6th Form I was showing the teacher how to do word processing properly in word while see was teaching our wordprocessing course.


Using 'tinternet properly since ~1992 (local BBS's before that) since Hull had Demon internet setup here with 5.5p forever phone calls.. Did use it before that but it was to expensive to use properly as BBS at the same 5.5p forever was much cheaper.

Anyway, today it's just a tool to use based mainly around the WWW (aka the web).

Enough geek talk for now.

and i'm sure there are people here using them was before that.

 

[FSR-Si]

I used to be quite interested in computers, building, repairing, tweaking etc etc. Now i just find it all a bit dull and i just have them for browsing the web and downloading stuff on. Although saying that i have just set up a pc for my little girl to play about on and she's doing quite well on it.

 

[barry2017]

I was in the bottom set for everything at school, and left school with no qualifications. The computing teacher wouldn't let me anywhere near a computer, even though I really wanted to learn. In fact, I remember one of my teachers calling me "thick as two short planks" in front of the swot kids when I was coming back into the class.

I'm working towards a degree in applied mathematics with the Open University now. I am good at it.

Schools are no indication of where a child will end up in the future.