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20050725 Monday July 25, 2005

 My first 'lil website...

Well my first son is almost 5 now so I thought it about time he starts using computers a bit more regularly to do a bit more than play atomic-mega-ultra-blastem'up-racing-crash-spin-zappo ....

You can see it here

So we sat down and, with a bit of help from myself (not much though), he built his first website. Nothing fancy, just some pictures and text and a couple of pages. He was pleased with it though!

Makes you wonder though. I still consider myself a pretty experienced IT bod, but I didn't even see a computer (outside of those fake hollywood ones with all the flashing lights ;-) until 1977 when my dad built the first one. Anyone else heard of a Compukit UK101? Only two other people in Sun so far!

My son is writing basic webpages at the age of 4, and he is already getting good enough at computer games that I'm having to get the manual out occasionally to figure out the power ups. He's happy to startup, shutdown, stick in the CDs, play MP3s and browse the web and send email (supervised obviously) He gets a school email address next year....he's almost as competent as my mum already...(no joke!)

Obviously this is pretty neat really, and it's a direct result of the work you, me and everyone else in IT has slogged our guts out for the last few decades on. Nice to see kids getting into this stuff and doing things. Can't help wondering what they will be doing with it at my age though (say around 2030 or so)

Difficult to even imagine!

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