Komputronik egzistenz

I, just as every other person in my group, was asked to write a couple of senteces about my computer experiences and post it on the blog just to let anybody interested read it, so here we go.

I don't know when exactly computers made their first appearance in my life but what I am sure of is that it was well before I started school. Usually it was my friends with their Ataris, Amigas, and Commodores who were responsible for my first encounters with computers but I remember pretty well that also my Dad had a PC at work and my brother and I used to go there just to play games and basically have fun. It was the era of Wolfenstein 3D, a precursor of all the first person perspective games which were bound to dominate the world later on. From that moment I wanted to have my own 'game machine' because this is what computers were about for me then - playing games.

But it wasn't until my brother bought a Pegasus that I finally had the opportunity to play video games at home. Pegasus was something extraordinary at the time; it was the first console to appear in Poland and it got itself almost a cult-like status very quickly. My brother and I were made slaves, but I'm too tough to complain about it.

Somewhere to the end of the second grade of my elementary school my parents said a computer was necessary for our further education, and as they said, so they did, and this is how our first 486 appeared in my brother's room, and changed our lives completely. How could they be so naive to think it would help us learn? From the perspective of time I can say it did something completely opposite. Yes, I admit it.

Since that time, we've modernized our computer a couple of times, and now it rots in my room, where it's hardly ever used by my parents. My brother and I use it only when we get back home, which doesn't happen to often. I don't miss it because now I've got my own brand new laptop which totally pleases my computer needs. What do I do with it? Lots of various things - listen to music, watch movies with my friends, browse the net, write essays and my diploma paper, and play games, just to name a few. Maybe it'll sound a bit ridiculous but it's become an essential part of my life. All in all, how could I update my blog without it?