Hmmm.not sure if I should admit this? LOL. My husband was in computers back in 70s and 80s, and we always had a "state of the art" home computer, even in the 80s. Ug. BUT I had no idea what it was about, and I was so busy working 2 and 3 jobs at a time, I never even saw it really, not the screen.....husband was usually tucked in a corner with his big top secret work tool?
His computer was NOT internet capable then.....and in 95, I got a huge disability lump sum payment (OK not huge.....ug, not even large......but more than I had ever seen.LOL-----) and I was interested in this internet thing and email. so in 95, I got my webtv......at Biglots.for $39. I already had a camcorder and a VCR and surprise, nondigital camcorder could be hooked up to webtv.so could vcr.....and yes, there were also printers back then.......
eventually we DID get a computer, BUT husband never ever ever let me anywhere near it, altho I was never home anyway, working and going to college and then all the doctor appts and iep meetings etc......but my lil webtv was in my bedroom on my bed......aand justbefore I collapsed at nite, - way before laptops, me and my webtv would curl up and I would go online. The kids got old enough and THEY atched on to daddys computer.....and then it did go online.but......still I was never here and they hogged it. BUT then I realized, most of the time the computer did not really work....viruses, trojans, whatever all those nasties are.
Plus everytime I blinked someone was saying mom the computer needs this and this and this......so- 99% of the time the computer sat in need.....of softare, of hardware of spyware, whatever all that stuff is? BUT my webtv just kept on going like the energizer bunny. no viruses, no worms, no upgrades, no this or that. It just kept on working just fine. My camcorder eventually died, and it had worked similar to a scanner, if you can believe. Our vcr is dying..and it is no longer novel to me to record anything from nternet onto a vcr tape, LOL. I HAVE used my webtv similar to a laptop over the years and taken it with me places, no need for wi fi.....unique and awesome setup----a TV and a phone line and I was good to go. the phone line did NOT have to be any thing special, any one would do. My webtv used an 800 dial up number. LOL. Oh the printer eventually died and printers have changed a lot over the years and now I cannot find a printer to work.
So--------I never bothered to even try to get my hands on a computer here. I got so sick of hearing about viruses etc, and our home computers died. and I let them stay dead. Expensive little buggers. I LOL at husband and the kids.cuz I always all thru it all had my lil ole trusty webtv. It NEVER let me down.
UNTIL.....eventually websites began to convert over to whatever it is now they use? This site and many others, they changed.....and yeah......more and more there were more and more sites I could not access, could not interact with, some I could not even see.
But for 13 years.me and my lil ole $39 webtv have been best friends. This webtv DID make an awesome incredible homepage for me way back in 96. complete with animated graphics, music etc. It wrote ALL my college papers and printed them up very nicely for me. It did faxes back then.....it was very helpful dureing all the iep garbage and due process etc.
But yes, now my poor lil ole webtv is getting very very ancient.....it is in the autumn of its life. And I am grieiving already.
This keyboard and me? Oh my goodness. It was here on my lap all thru my quadriplegic time. My keyboard has slept in my pillow beside me all these years.
It has typed prolly hundreds of thousands of emails. Thru some of the darkest days of my life and some of the most joyous.
Truthfully, these days I email I think one person. ANd I come to this site. and thats about it. And now that I am doing text messageing so well? and in such abundance? LOL------(thanks to my kids) I amnot sure if I really have such a huge need for a computer, anymore. I have a new grandbaby on the way I want to play with....now that I am once again physically mobile, walking etc again......I spend LOTS more time up and moving and doing again. So- I resist a computer. Yes, a laptop sounds fun......but, truly, becuz husband has been on total disability since 1990 and me since 2000......and difficult child is likely never going to be independant.....and the new grandbaby will be living here for a time after it is born while easy child goes to college.....
I doubt I really can justify scraping to come up with $$ for a computer or an MP3 player. and with the awful things the economy is doing right now? WHew.....it is so scary.
So- easy child does have her laptop- and I will just hafta borrow hers sometimes? LOL. And I will grin and say something witty like um..oh.....hey easy child, I took care of you all these years and now you kids can start to provide for me and take care of me? Let me borrow your laptop? Kinda like how I let you borrow car keys? LOL
BUT I really hope my webtv will just keep on going forever. By now it really really feels like a part of my body, LOL.
It has to have been the very very very best $39 ANYONE could have ever spent. (except for maybe someone who bought a winning lottery ticket?)
OK.sorry I typed such a long post.
It really is funny just how much I really do love my poor old outdated webtv.
I really really do love it.
