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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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Cool stuff. Congratulations to Mark for one of the clearer websites around these days! "koo-dose", as they say ;^)

BTW, Drew, did you know that for some reason the "blog-name" parameter for your blog is blank? If you look at it via the b.s.c/roller page or in an RSS bookmark, it is curiously anonymous.
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Posted by Robin Wilton on July 25, 2005 at 02:58 PM BST #

Have you always wanted to have your own tv-station. It can be possible withe the Telliespel-Game. From origine it's a Dutch game, but also available in English in GMT. Wanna try? Go to www.telliespel.tk and click on the English flag, or go directly to http://www.maartenstrips.somee.com/Telliespel.asp?Land=UK. Have fun!

Posted by Maartenstrips on February 05, 2006 at 03:42 PM GMT #