Technology Blog - Tuesday

As I sit in the UW-Bothell library and try to write my Tuesday Technology Blog, I can’t help but be amazed that I can work here on my laptop and use the internet without any sort of connections to my computer or dialing-up. Wireless internet technology is something that is so incredible to me, mostly because it’s a technology that I didn’t grow up with. It wasn’t until I got a new laptop a few months ago that I first connected wirelessly to the internet, and now I’m hooked. It has made life so much easier. I can take my laptop anywhere on campus and be “connected.” I am young enough that internet has been around for most of my life. I remember going on a field trip in elementary school to a UW computer lab and being exposed to it for the first time. I was amazed by what was available. I remember going online and seeing clips from Star Wars and thinking it was the coolest thing. Later, our family would get internet. Remember that annoying dial-tone as your modem connected? Then anytime someone tried to call they would get a busy signal, so my mom would get mad anytime I was online too long. But now I have wireless internet. No weird noises. No clogging up the phone line. Just great high speed internet. I would say that this technology has definitely made my life easier. Now I couldn’t imagine ever not having wireless internet, which I think is one of the funny things about technology which I have touched on before. I thought the slow dial-up internet was fantastic as an elementary student because I couldn't fathom wireless high speed internet. But now that I’ve been exposed to the future, I would get too frustrated if I had to go back to a dial-up modem.