digital autobiography

Carissa Ayala

English 100

M/W 5-7pm

Draft 1

            I have grown up with technology all around me. I can’t remember a time when there hasn’t been, because all my life I have been surrounded by it. Computers, internet, and cellphones have been around longer then I have, so all forms of digital technology have immensely impacted my life. I actually have no idea how I would have turned out if it were any different. I think the main forms of digital technology that has impacted me the most has been computers and the internet. From what I can remember my house has always had a computer with functioning internet. I can even remember back in those ancient times, when internet was dial up and the most dreadful noise played that let you know you were connecting to the internet and yelling through the house for everyone to get off the phone.

Something I don’t remember is who taught me how to use the computer; I couldn’t have been older than 4 when I learned. I also don’t remember how advanced I was at working the computer, but it must have been pretty advance because I know I helped teach my mom how to work it when she was taking computer classes. I know by the time I was 5 years old I could work it by myself. In my kindergarten class we had computers, I remember using them to take reading comprehension tests after we read our weekly books. At home I remember having a bunch of computer games. One was jukebox teaching the alphabet and how to spell, another was Freddy the Fish, and Putt-Putt, both I believe were also educational. Sometimes I would use my older sister’s game, it was called The Clue finder’s 3^rd Grade Adventures. Mind you I started borrowing her game since I was in kinder. I continued to get more tech-savvy as the time passed. I remember I got a leap frog reader and one of those fake laptops, which I actually can’t remember what it did. Then I started getting more computer games as gifts, like a strawberry shortcake one, they were fun but I liked the original ones that I played I would just replay them from the beginning. I think that the learning is what made them fun to me, that I had to solve the problems, because baking a cake is fun for a little bit but there’s no challenge to it.

Computer are what shaped my early childhood development. Kindergarten and first grade we used those multiple choice tests for our reading comprehension. In second and third we did the same but they were longer and we learned and had to fill out Scranton’s and run them through a little machine ourselves. In the fourth grade we learned how to use Microsoft Word so we could use them to write our essays. In the Fifth grade we learned how to use Power Point so we could do all our projects and presentations. And along the way I learned how to do everything else.