My personal computer history

My first encounter with a computer took place in 1996 back in my home state of Wisconsin. I was in fifth grade at the time and had little to no idea what a computer was used for or even what it was. My teacher handed out little keyboards with a digital, one-line read-out which gave you typing lessons over either a 30 or 60 second time period. When first seeing these machines I did not really know what to make of them, or even how to use them. I was then informed that this is the basic keyboard where the letters are placed and how important it is to memorize that before getting onto a computer.
A year comes around and I find myself in a new location in Cary, NC where I attended West Cary Middle. It was here I received my first taste of the computer life. I was enrolled in two courses, one dealing with typing and the other with computer basics. These two classes really opened up my eyes and introduced me to the new technology first. I eventually turned into the IT tech for my family when it came to computer problems. During this time I was the only individual in our family who was being introduced to computers, even though my parents went out and bought one. After the semester of figuring out what a computer was, I then moved on to more technical studies with the computer, learning coding on notepad; fun stuff!
From there I moved on to using it daily in class or at home, searching the internet for video clips, homework assignments, world-wide shopping, instant messaging and games mostly. It was at this point I stopped thinking of how cool and new the computer was because I was already beginning to adapt my daily life around it. Once this happened, any question or issue brought forth had an answer on the internet; anytime I was bored, there was a game to take up my time; any book I had to read, there were book-note summaries available with a click of the mouse.
In many situations, I used the computer for basic help which came easier than the normal path of physically finding an answer. Most all of my time on computers is fun, not frustrating. But there were those times when I could have thrown the computer out the window because of unsolvable problems. With joy comes disappointment and I felt that the machine I was using was evolving with time and with its users, so astonishingly I had patience. The computer had invaded my life in many ways, all of which have helped the processes along in a positive way, some more than the others.