Great. . . Or Not So Great. . .. . What Have You Learned By Using The Internet ?

Wow finally an intelligent question. I have seen some pretty lame questions on this site. It is about time.

I have learned a lot in the past couple of years since I bought a computer. Thanks for using this site in the way it is meant to be used . Asking real genuine questions.

It isn't TYPING. The schools around here call it KEYBOARDING and they start in 1st grade. When I went to high school, most guys wouldn't have been caught dead in a typing class. It was a girl thing. In the early life of the PC at work, my male co-workers would just watch as those typing classes paid off. Spelling and grammar still annoy me when people do not take the time to check the spelling. Use of incorrect words because they shorten everything and then don't pay attention to what they write. "I do not want to waist your time." I got this in an email from a Lender's Acct. Exec. that was directed to everyone in the Broker Office. I was not impressed by the Acct. Exec.

Early stages: basically was work related, just fun roaming around the WEB, and email. I learned how to find medical information from reliable sources. This was helpful when daycare tried to tell me my son was ADD at 3.

Now: everything and anything - hate junk mail, spend too many hours sometimes on YA, checking different sites I have linked as Favorites, and shopping around comparing prices and products. My sister found a Family Tree Web system so that gets me locked in but it is fun to see it build up and the pictures loaded by other family members. Love that we can connect more often this way.

Yes I know exactly what you mean. Today's Internet and PCs are an awesome tool. I have noticed that I spell better now. The learning potential is very awesome. I can remember my first experience with the Internet. It was back in 1983. I had a Radio Shack color computer with a whole 32K of ram and another 32K of ROM. I had a cassette player for a storage media and after awhile a 5.25" floppy became available. The modem I had for it at the time was a 300 baud rate modem. Back then I had to make a long distance call to hook up to CompuServe. I had over $400 in charges to my phone bill that first month.

That there's a lot of freaks out there...

30 words per minute isnt bad on the old style typewriters, new keyboards are much faster. I have trouble with accuracy even after so long. I dropped out of typing class.

As typing goes, I'm fairly <sarcasm> proficient...I kinda need to as an Executive Secretary (running about 105 word per minute).

But, what I have learned...hmmm...that the public education system in this country stinks...I have NEVER, in my life, seen so many people in one place (YA) that can't seem to understand simple spelling and punctuation.

But c'est la vie....

I still cannot Type ! I search&pec, with the emphisis on search !

What have I learned on the internet ?

That there are a lot of strange people out there, but many interesting people too.

The internet didn't teach me how to type better since I was already about as good as I am now before I connected to the internet.

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typing REALLY fast and i do a lot of research on animals and the human body so i learned a lot from that.

Porn is cheap, you can buy pills that enlargen your anatomy, YA! really is time wasting yet addictive, internet dating is a double edged sword!

What my sisters really thinks about me and my family. Not just what she says when she is around us.