Exposure to technologies.

When was your first encounter with technology?
What was the first technology you used?

*That was one of the question being asked by our lecturer during our Technology for Young Children lessons.

Of course we can't answer after we were born and that is no such thing that you were born and you were already holding a hand phone? Isn't that a bit illogical? I guess television was my first encounter when I was young though I can’t really remember how old was it and television is part of technology. When our lecturer was telling us that technologies are like radio, telephones, television, microwave, oven and things that makes our life easier because we depend on them, we didn’t even notice all the above. All that we can think of is the computer which everyone said that. Somehow those items like microwave, oven just come unnoticed for us. Computer wasn’t the “in” thing when I was really young yet but, I remembered that got attracted by it from my sister who was playing games. When did I really get exposed to computer was when I was in primary school and it was part of my education where I have this special computer class where we have all the subjects in questions for us to answer. In my secondary school, when I was in Form 4 and 5, I was in Graphic class which is under Art category. So, my graphic class is all about designing and art but, of course we cannot left out the basic core subjects which are needed in SPM like Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Inggeris, Sejarah and so on. As for designing, my school calls it as “Grafik Kelas”, which require us to make a folio where we need to learn all the module of the lessons and we have to really design according to the module, it’s something like an assignment for us to complete and it counts in our SPM certificate. So, mostly we uses computer for this subject and this where I get really addicted with designing or editing with “Photoshop” but, as for now, I less uses it because of my course and I slowly forget how to design and stuff. Computer nowadays needs the Internet because Internet is just so important for me to check forums, music, emails, gossip, downloads (I know it’s illegal to do that, but, you can’t help it) and not to forget my assignments research. Even blogging needs an Internet to connect. Hand phone were next for me. I started to have hand phone when I was in Standard 4 because of safety reasons and I’ve got Nokia 2000 series as my first phone. That was the phone that was very attractive during my school days because of the games and ringtones they in it. Those were the two technologies that I really got addicted with.

How about you? Do you remember your childhood years with technologies?