In what year did you first own/purchase a computer? [View All]

[Bouncy Ball]

For me, it was 1993. I was in my early 20s, married, a college graduate and teaching.

It was a 486 (can't remember the brand) and came pre-installed with Word Perfect, AOL and Prodigy. Remember Prodigy? It had the giant Sears ads across the bottom of the screen.

I thought email was like chat. So I sent my first email, to the only person I knew with an email address (a former classmate who was living in Houston) and I sat there, waiting for the response. This was back when you paid so much per month for so many hours, then per hour after that! My husband explained that it wasn't like chat, that my friend wasn't necessarily even sitting at his computer at that moment. I didn't believe him. Finally he asked me to turn the computer off, but I thought if I turned it off, I wouldn't be able to receive his email!

:rofl:

It's weird thinking about college. We graduated RIGHT before most people started owning computers. We knew one guy who owned one and we thought his parents were super wealthy.