My answers:

1.I can't remember for sure, but I think I was between 10-15 years old when our first computer was introduced into our home. My dad bought it from RadioShack and I believe the brand was Texas Instruments. I remember playing Pong on it.

2.I was 25 years old and had just had my first child when we first got the internet. I was stuck at home a lot because he was a baby and I remember feeling like the internet opened me up to the world. I loved it.

3.This one is hard to answer without knowing what my life would have been like otherwise. What else would I be doing in my free time? What additional hobbies might I have? I do think the internet has affected how I interact with others, and obviously there are some places on the internet where you can talk to people anonymously (and therefore in a less inhibited fashion) which has its pros and cons. It does open you up to the rest of the world, though, and gives you access to people and experiences you would not have otherwise...which can be a very, very good thing...or a not so good thing depending on the specific situation.

4.Those nasty canned salmon patties with little bones in them. My mother would cut them into circles and fry them.

That episode of Young Sheldon was so great!

1: I didn't get a home computer until I was in my 30s! It was a Compaq and was a used one that came from the security office at work. We had taken a floor model for the office, but when the company installed new computers throughtout the building, my boyfriend at the time bought the old one super cheap for our personal use.

Fun (and somewhat embarassing) confession: I remember watching a news report on home computers where they said that by a certain date a certain percentage of homes would have computers, and I heartily scoffed - who was going to pay 1000 dollars to have some dumb computer in their home? For what? I felt the same way about cell phones, too, until I got one. I'm not exactly cutting-edge when it comes to electronics!

2: We got the internet at the same time we got the computer.

3: The internet is basically having the world at your fingertips. It's amazing. I can't even imagine how we got along without it.

That being said, it is easy to get sucked into things that can be negative to one's quality of life. I got off Facebook almost two years ago and I don't miss it at all.

4: Wax beans. Yuck.

I thought the idea was a bit silly, because even Young Sheldon should have known that what was available as a "home computer" then would be essentially useless to anything he wanted to do. Keeping a recipe file, for example, would not be of any value to him. And "home computers" then were not number-crunchers.

@Knixon said:

I thought the idea was a bit silly, because even Young Sheldon should have known that what was available as a "home computer" then would be essentially useless to anything he wanted to do. Keeping a recipe file, for example, would not be of any value to him. And "home computers" then were not number-crunchers.

I bet it's the home computer on which he created his list of enemies. He said he started that list when he was nine.

@Gothish520 said:

That episode of Young Sheldon was so great!

1: I didn't get a home computer until I was in my 30s! It was a Compaq and was a used one that came from the security office at work. We had taken a floor model for the office, but when the company installed new computers throughtout the building, my boyfriend at the time bought the old one super cheap for our personal use.

Fun (and somewhat embarassing) confession: I remember watching a news report on home computers where they said that by a certain date a certain percentage of homes would have computers, and I heartily scoffed - who was going to pay 1000 dollars to have some dumb computer in their home? For what? I felt the same way about cell phones, too, until I got one. I'm not exactly cutting-edge when it comes to electronics!

2: We got the internet at the same time we got the computer.

3: The internet is basically having the world at your fingertips. It's amazing. I can't even imagine how we got along without it.

That being said, it is easy to get sucked into things that can be negative to one's quality of life. I got off Facebook almost two years ago and I don't miss it at all.

4: Wax beans. Yuck.

Yes, Facebook can be particularly destructive. It allows you to talk to people you actually know through a medium where inhibitions are diminished (not to their face in other words) and that can cause problems. For me personally, I think it's my least favorite thing on the internet.

@Lemons said:

@Knixon said:

I thought the idea was a bit silly, because even Young Sheldon should have known that what was available as a "home computer" then would be essentially useless to anything he wanted to do. Keeping a recipe file, for example, would not be of any value to him. And "home computers" then were not number-crunchers.

I bet it's the home computer on which he created his list of enemies. He said he started that list when he was nine.

Maybe so. But he didn't need a computer for that either, because of his eidetic memory.

But for more practical terms, for example those equations he went over with the NASA guy, no home computer from that time would have been any use for stuff like that. Or even anything close to it. Which is why I conclude that even Young Sheldon would not have been interested in a home computer, because he would have known how useless it would actually be to him.

@Knixon said:

@Lemons said:

@Knixon said:

I thought the idea was a bit silly, because even Young Sheldon should have known that what was available as a "home computer" then would be essentially useless to anything he wanted to do. Keeping a recipe file, for example, would not be of any value to him. And "home computers" then were not number-crunchers.

I bet it's the home computer on which he created his list of enemies. He said he started that list when he was nine.

Maybe so. But he didn't need a computer for that either, because of his eidetic memory.

But for more practical terms, for example those equations he went over with the NASA guy, no home computer from that time would have been any use for stuff like that. Or even anything close to it. Which is why I conclude that even Young Sheldon would not have been interested in a home computer, because he would have known how useless it would actually be to him.

Maybe actually typing up the list gave him a feeling of power.

Now tell me about something you didn't like eating growing up! Please?

Oh dear, are you twitching again?

Liver, beets, any kind of seafood (which I still never eat), turnips, cauliflower, broccoli...

@Knixon said:

Oh dear, are you twitching again?

Liver, beets, any kind of seafood (which I still never eat), turnips, cauliflower, broccoli...

Ha! No twitching yet. I can agree with you on all of that except seafood and broccoli. I especially love me some shellfish.

@Knixon said:

Oh dear, are you twitching again?

Liver, beets, any kind of seafood (which I still never eat), turnips, cauliflower, broccoli...

Ahh, liver, that's a good one! A few years ago I had anemia, and as my system could not handle iron supplements, I had to increase my iron through diet alone. I tried liver after not having eaten it since I was a child. All I can say is ewww! I choked about half of it down, each bite smothered in onions. That was all I could manage. Went back to steak and veggies after that.

@Gothish520 said:

@Knixon said:

Oh dear, are you twitching again?

Liver, beets, any kind of seafood (which I still never eat), turnips, cauliflower, broccoli...

Ahh, liver, that's a good one! A few years ago I had anemia, and as my system could not handle iron supplements, I had to increase my iron through diet alone. I tried liver after not having eaten it since I was a child. All I can say is ewww! I choked about half of it down, each bite smothered in onions. That was all I could manage. Went back to steak and veggies after that.

Liver was something that I thought smelled good while it was cooking but tasted terrible going down. I only remember my mother making it once. Yuck!

Unfortunately, my father loved liver and onions. But there were 6 kids, and I don't think any of US liked it, so mostly we didn't have to suffer.

I was 9 and had my own DELL Pc that was faster than most but had no soundcard. My early memories of it include trying to edit different military units and technologies so that it changes the CIV II game for a more interesting gameplay. I failed at first because the text file containing the rules I accessed was straight from the CD ROM, not from the installation directory. Anyway after figuring out that bit I managed to load a scenario that chronicled the events after the mines of moria in the LOTR trilogy. The key to winning the scenario was holding Minas Tirith after Osgilitah falls until you trigger Rohan to come to Gondors aid. And of course trying to sneak the sam and frodo unit to Mount Doom.

@Lemons said:

It's no secret that I'm one for nostalgia, and shows like Young Sheldon are a mental playground for me. Please join me for a brief jaunt down memory lane.

1.On the last episode of Young Sheldon, we saw him get his very first computer! How old were you when a computer was first introduced into your household? Do you remember what brand it was, and what you did on it?

2.How old were you when the internet was first introduced into your household?

3.Do you think that the internet has improved your life?

And one non-computer nostalgia question for fun:

4.What was something you had to eat growing up that you hated so much, you have never eaten it again as an adult?

1) I was 4 years old, windows 97 but dont remember the model,don't laugh.

2)4 again.

3)It's hard to imagine life without the internet but it's improved life for everyone. The good outweighs the bad.

4) I think the psychologists call it food aversion. For me it's brussel sprouts and there's a whole story behind it.

When I was little and staying at my grandmother 's she would make me lunch and usually make me eat Vegetables I don't ever eat. I would feed the brussel sprouts to her dog in another room and come back with a clean plate. Then she'd say, "Oh you liked them so much I gotta make more!"

Ugggggghh ,back to the dog . Eventually the dog got sick and I got in trouble. 😏

@shallowhal said:

I was 9 and had my own DELL Pc that was faster than most but had no soundcard. My early memories of it include trying to edit different military units and technologies so that it changes the CIV II game for a more interesting gameplay. I failed at first because the text file containing the rules I accessed was straight from the CD ROM, not from the installation directory. Anyway after figuring out that bit I managed to load a scenario that chronicled the events after the mines of moria in the LOTR trilogy. The key to winning the scenario was holding Minas Tirith after Osgilitah falls until you trigger Rohan to come to Gondors aid. And of course trying to sneak the sam and frodo unit to Mount Doom.

Thanks for your answer! Sounds like you know a LOT more about computers than I do.

Also, I've not seen you on this board before. I hope you'll keep coming around!