After I posted a few articles to hubpages.com I got an email from a happy reader saying it was refreshing to read things that weren't about technology. A few days later, where I had read the top 10 writers on hubpages it dawned on me that the articles with the most traffic are the ones about technology.
When I was in Jr. High School outside headhunters came in and did lectures about the wonderful world of technology and that all the best careers would be in those fields. And I remember thinking 'technology, blech, what about art and dance and music.' I wasn't the least bit interested in that boring technology stuff.
So now fast forward to 2006. I still don't know what an IPOD is, I have no idea what a blackberry really does unless I am baking a pie, I don't think I could write five hundred words on maximizing a website for a search engine, I don't have a pilot's license, I've never played Everquest and I have your very bare bones version of a cellphone. I've never sent a text message. I've never had cable TV. And I lived 3 very happy years without a TV. At the moment I am out of printer ink and haven't bothered to buy more. And I've never had a scanner. I had a digital camera that I used like a fiend until it stopped working one day. And I don't have the money or the inclination to replace it right now.
At least I know how to do email and use Front Page, but like I said, technology has mostly passed me by.
In short, I am a dinosaur.
purple posted on Sep 26, 2006
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silverwhisper said on Sep 26, 2006....
it's funny, tech drives a lot of what i do. w/out e-mail, i cannot work. w/out the scanner, i cannot work.
and the sad thing is i'm not actually an IT person.
ed
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Alyss said on Sep 27, 2006....
Not quite a dinosaur but I'm not a techie either.
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rmuxagirl said on Sep 27, 2006....
I'm more like you and all about the arts and dance. That's probably why I have a degree in simply English and nothing else.
I don't know about this bluetooth thing...to me someone has a very terrible dental problem. Although I have played Everquest, but I tend to call my friend when my computer does the slightest of thing different. I've been laughed at only to be told I need to just do something small and easy.
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ohtidak said on Sep 29, 2006....
so, its a dianosour+technology=dinology
you've been surrounded by the speeding machine called technology which always move fast forward without bothering if anyone been left behind. for those who are catchy, they move along, for the rest, they are dinosours like you? well, to me, technology is nothing else but the revolution of the history itself. and for your information, i dont even know what i am talking about here.. hahaha~
forgive me, forgive me not. guess i have a point here :)
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purple said on Oct 05, 2006....
Dinology...maybe you should trademark that.
Yesterday I saw that one of the phone companies had trademarked the word 'FAST'. Oh brother.
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