The paper was due shortly and I had lost a large portion of my work. To say I was upset would be an understatement. In computers, that’s about as bad as it gets.
Just as I finished it, ready to hit print, the computer froze. However, towards the end of composition, I had forgotten to do the disk backup, and added most of the final content. Every day or so, I copied the file onto a 3.5″ floppy (remember those?). Yes, as a freshman I summarized the entire history of China into a few typed pages (double-spaced!) there might have been a few things left out.Īnyway, I wrote and wrote, saving regularly. Towards the end of the year, I had a research paper on China.
Without these kings of distractions invented yet (there was MySpace), I did my homework. Put it this way: No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest. It was for tech-savvy people to play and others to exchange e-mails and instant messages with family and friends found through.
By then, the internet was a thing, yet not nearly the eponymous concept pervasive throughout society. A previous post discussed the risks that can come with, ba-dum, assuming! Yet here I have done it again.
