Hi,
Before the vast usefulness of the internet came in existence, people like myself had computers in their homes and others had it in their offices. What you could do with a computer back then was very limited without the internet, in my opinion.
I only used it for:
- Word Processing (I will give it credit there...considering it was the modern day type-writer)
- Encarta (very limited thinking about it now)
- Printing out pictures/charts (very rare)
Did anyone else use computers, without internet, for other things I have not mentioned?
I would watch early 90's movies and see businessmen carry around laptops. Really?! What could they possibly do with a laptop that you could not Google, send emails, online banking and so on. It could possibly be a pretentious way of carrying around a 4 kg machine to take down notes. The only quasi-useful things I can think of is carrying around their laptops to a meeting to illustrate PowerPoint slides on a projector or work on Excel spreadsheets where ever they went. Or is this an distorted reality presented by Hollywood?
Any thoughts?
Before the vast usefulness of the internet came in existence, people like myself had computers in their homes and others had it in their offices. What you could do with a computer back then was very limited without the internet, in my opinion.
I only used it for:
- Word Processing (I will give it credit there...considering it was the modern day type-writer)
- Encarta (very limited thinking about it now)
- Printing out pictures/charts (very rare)
Did anyone else use computers, without internet, for other things I have not mentioned?
I would watch early 90's movies and see businessmen carry around laptops. Really?! What could they possibly do with a laptop that you could not Google, send emails, online banking and so on. It could possibly be a pretentious way of carrying around a 4 kg machine to take down notes. The only quasi-useful things I can think of is carrying around their laptops to a meeting to illustrate PowerPoint slides on a projector or work on Excel spreadsheets where ever they went. Or is this an distorted reality presented by Hollywood?
Any thoughts?
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